> However, what our democratically elected government does to us is very much within our own power to change, and we have the ability to hold them to account.
We do not elect the Director of National Intelligence and we did not have a public debate about secret laws. The only reason these things are coming to light is due to the extralegal actions of one brave man, one technologist, one individual. Not due to "our democracy".
Our democracy is why there is a free press to expose these things, and why we can talk about them freely. While we don't elect the Director of National Intelligence, our democracy allows us the right of peaceful protest to change it.
None of that would be possible in a country like China.
We do not elect the Director of National Intelligence and we did not have a public debate about secret laws. The only reason these things are coming to light is due to the extralegal actions of one brave man, one technologist, one individual. Not due to "our democracy".