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[rezoner.livejournal.com]

Вот я тоже особых оснований для печали не вижу. Сдвиг достаточно тектонический, куда надо. Может, республиканцам стоит быть в оппозиции? :)

[stas]

Где ж тектонический - шаг вперёд, два шага назад... А видя всю эту чехарду, люди всё больше убеждаются, что все эти разговоры насчёт нарушения Конституции - просто политическая риторика, чтобы чужого кандидата свалить, а своего посадить. В результате чего общество превращается в совок. Что будет довольно неприятно...

[yyi.livejournal.com]

1. in 2002 the memory of 9/11 is too fresh and the "hysteria" is a bit more understandable.
2. in 2006 the "hysteria" should be cooling a bit, but in that survey the question is about more vague "surveillance programs" - it is possible to suppose/assume/wish that there are proper/sufficient safeguards against the abuses.

so, while i am not sure I am happy about these results, I am not sure I would be quite so upset.
Of all the numbers I am perhaps most disturbed by a significant increase of people who think that email should be monitored even as the threat of terrorism is dropping (the only mitigating factor I can see is the Boston bombing affair impacting beyond reasonable the views of the people surveyed).

[stas]

There's always something to impact people's views. We can not talk about abstract spherical people in vacuum... But the obvious thing is a partisan reversal of opinion. Of course, we could dismiss this as a 10% of idiots which are in any population, but I'm not sure it's that simple.