There is a glaring problem with the so-called logic of "nobody should find government spying a big deal if we have nothing to hide." That problem is that the politicians have literally enacted tens of thousands of laws, and in turn those have been used to create hundred of thousands - if not millions - of rules and regulations controlling nearly every minutia of our lives. Everyone is a law-breaker, whether they know it or not.
I often find myself getting on my father's case when he starts whining about all of Obama's abuses. Not that Obama isn't guilty of the things Dad complains about, but that Dad was perfectly fine with it when Bush was establishing the precedents that Obama has been using to finish building this police state around us. Dad is a typical partisan - he doesn't seem to care what they are doing when it's his own gang in control.
And this didn't start with Bush, either. This police state wasn't built overnight, or even in a decade; it really got going when Nixon (a Republican) declared his "war on drugs," and was rapidly expanded when Reagan (another Republican) accelerated the drug war and started the outright militarization of our police forces, turning them from "peace officers" into a standing army of occupation, which was completed when Bush II (yet another Republican) declared his "war of terror" (excuse me, "war on terrorism.")
The Republicans have been key players in creating the police state, but notice that none of the intervening Democratic administrations did anything to reverse or even retard those assaults on Liberty. The "two-party" system has been a shell game to dupe the rest of us over the decades into thinking that we were dealing with opposing ideologies; reality proves it to be otherwise, which is why nothing ever really changes regardless of who is in power. The Dems and Reps are simply two sides of the same debased, counterfeit coin. Rival Mafia families are more honest (and pose less hazard to ordinary citizens.)
