How many people on this site are unaware of the amount of times the government's courts have found its executive, legislative, (and lower judicial) branches acting without authority?

How many people on this site are unaware of the extent to which we are monitored? And openly? We have an entire agency whose primary task is to mass surveil.

I think all the things are true at the same time... that most people already believe it, they don't need sources in this instance, but they still don't like the way the comment was worded.

Have we already forgotten about Edward Snowden & the NSA?

Unfortunately, I think that's likely the case for anyone on the younger side. Most of that came to light in 2013, 13 years ago. Anyone 20-30 years old today would've been a teenager then in high school, and likely not paying attention very closely.

It was big news for a little bit, and then the media by design quickly forgot about it barely a year later, and that is why history is doomed to repeat.

No, but there are a lot of employees of 3 letter agencies in here and they don't like the noise.