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Originally Posted by Briks
I love how American patriots go on about "freedom" and "liberty", when they live in a military state with a kinda corrupt democracy and surveillance of its citizens. I almost hope for a revolution in the USA, not to enforce a new government in any way (that'd be undemocratic and counterproductive), but to open up for a truer democracy in which all candidates are treated equally, and voted for by enlightened individuals (by this I don't mean that the range of voters should be limited in any way, but that the people should be made more politically educated in general, so that they know exactly what they're voting for).
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Surveillance of citizens is pretty much predominant in most first world countries and most of Europe is no exception to that rule either. You might have more freedom on that for example in Norway and Sweden etc, but most of the rest of Europe is under the cosh.