Gay marriage and pot legalization haven't done anything to diminish the power of the State. If anything, they've done the opposite, by introducing even more con

Gay marriage and pot legalization haven't done anything to diminish the power of the State. If anything, they've done the opposite, by introducing even more controls into certain areas of our lives. But leaving that aside, I think that governments find our privacy to be a much greater threat to their power than who they decide can get married, or what they decide people can smoke. I think that going after the surveillance state cuts much closer to the heart of their power.