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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by noobermin on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:16PM (#16129336)
There is a nuance here.

The Dems are better. They are better than republicans on this, but they certainly aren't good enough. That is the unfortunate part. But if you definitely want a better chance for civil liberties, voting for R's will hurt you worse than if you vote for D's, significantly so.

Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by CWuestefeld on Friday January 12, 2018 @05:53PM (#16137040)
But if you definitely want a better chance for civil liberties, voting for R's will hurt you worse than if you vote for D's

I suppose that depends which civil liberties are more important to you. You'll find that Democrats are pretty awful if you value your right to self-defense, or if you don't think the government should be able to use eminent domain to take your property and give it to a wealthy supporter.

Some of the details may be different, but they're both different sides of the same coin. I don't see that one side is significantly better than the other overall.

Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by aaronbrethorst on Saturday January 13, 2018 @08:20PM (#16142334)
Chelsea Manning seems to agree that the Democrats are better, too. Otherwise, I don't think she'd be running for Senate as one: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chelsea-manning-files-us-...