> It feels like even Western governments are becoming more and more protective of their aristocrat-class I'm confused about how this is the takeaway from a sto

> It feels like even Western governments are becoming more and more protective of their aristocrat-class I'm confused about how this is the takeaway from a story about how the government was spying on a US Senator, who presumably is a member of the aristocrat-class? IMO this is a story about how politicians, in the name of "security", empower a bureaucracy that becomes more powerful than the politicians themselves. The same thing happens at the local level with city governments and police departments/police unions. The politicians lose control of the security apparatus.