We humans are lacy and happily trade convenience for information, because we can also not imagine anybody doing something bad with it, until it happens to ourselves. When it's others, we still consent. We all seem to have a lacy, spineless fashist in our nature. We also tend to analyze only one shell and don't go deeper or we would not blaim the state for it, but the big profiteers of such a surveiling law - the corporations who make politics and sell surveilance and AI, the military being their first customers or maybe even drivers of them like many silicon valley firms.
So it is absolutely normal, that people stand up in the last 5 minutes (or too late) for their right of privacy. And the people of the US seem to be most capable with living in cognitive dissonance - it's second nature to read the independence letter on 4th july and not notice that what they accused the english king then, they all let their own governement do, right now, under their own king or caspar trump di dump. And instead of correcting it, abolishing a two party system, reform the voting system like ALL THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD they blame 'the government', as if they were forced to remain passive. As if the could not stand up, read things, make ppl accountable. Instead the USA is no more "the one country of many states (unus de pluribus), but since the 50ies Lords blessed people, even though the founding papers still state very clear, that religion is no foundation of this state.
