Stop spying on the world.
Eradicate secret law.
Cease indefinite detention without trial.
Stop assassinating people.
One would think that those things were obvious democratic views and can't possible refer to anything other than some dark dictatorship in some back-hole country that no one has heard of. Yet this is not even denied by largest democratic country in existence. Is there any defense for how this got started and kept going?
Just as an intellectual challenge. A dark dictatorship would also claim national security, but people would likely not accept that. Is that because we simply have a bit of blind trust in democracies, or is there something else going on?
These are basically the definition of "populist sentiment": things that it makes voters happy to hear/think about, but which no political party desires.
