The best political threat we can create is converting minds. We need more writing and better articles to ground the flags flown on Facebook and Twitter. We need

The best political threat we can create is converting minds. We need more writing and better articles to ground the flags flown on Facebook and Twitter. We need to appeal to people's reason and principles. Otherwise why bother? If I could write well, I'd start a dialog around the concept that "We shouldn't have needed Snowden". The fact that we don't have transparency into our own government, that it took someone to break the law to give us the transparency we most certainly should have had into the NSA's activities (The national security arguments don't cut it and we need to explain that well), is a clear sign that our democracy is broken, that "government by and for the people" is dying.