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Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:16PM
Good luck to you. Gen-X here. I voted against Bush because it was clear to me that if elected, he would find some excuse or another to invade Iraq so he could be a war president like his daddy. I urged my "representatives" not to let the madness happen. I urged everyone I knew to vote to avoid the whole debacle. Yet here we are, well over a trillion dollars later. Short of going Oswald, what would you have had me do?
Don't worry, one day you'll be my age and wondering how the ongoing disaster can be called your fault.
I'm guessing you are old enough to vote, probably old enough to run for at least some offices. Certainly old enough to protest. So why is this shit still happening? Why haven't you stopped it? Yeah, me too!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @11:52PM
I voted against Bush
Whereas I voted *for* a third party candidate. I don't vote "against" people, as that just creates more evil and the evil gets worse and worse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @03:24AM
No, its the voting for evil that makes the evil get worse, voting against that evil is the only option that might actually have an effect. The reason the US has no left is because of morons only voting for right and far-right candidates, making everyone else shift even further right; if people voted for less-right instead of further-right, we'd be able to get politicians that are somewhat-centrist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @03:41AM
No, its the voting for evil that makes the evil get worse, voting against that evil is the only option that might actually have an effect.
Yes, that is what I meant. I vote for candidates I believe to be good. However, the way he phrased it (voting against Bush) led me to believe he likely voted Democrat, rather than for a non-evil (or at least not provably evil) candidate. You should vote for good candidates, not merely against bad ones. That's also voting against evil, but the distinction is important.
I don't believe "left" and "right" have any real meaning anyway. I just care if the policy is the right one to me, not if it's considered "left", "right", or "centrist".
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday April 24 2015, @05:43AM
Considering that Bush won and dragged us into war anyway, it hardly matters who or what I voted for.