I did vote for Obama in 2008 because he promised no more warrantless wiretaps and in general seemed the least-bad 'realistic' (as in Schelling-point) choice for

I did vote for Obama in 2008 because he promised no more warrantless wiretaps and in general seemed the least-bad 'realistic' (as in Schelling-point) choice for civil liberty. (I did not in 2012.) I agree that not nearly enough people give creeping totalitarianism its proper priority in voting; for the foreseeable future some other sort of action is needed.