I both hope and fear that you're right. We all-to-often see people more interested in voting for and supporting things based on "what am I going to get out of

I both hope and fear that you're right. We all-to-often see people more interested in voting for and supporting things based on "what am I going to get out of this" as opposed to more vital abstract things like "is this right". What's best for me, personally, right this moment, rather than what is better for society and the freedom of the individual in the future. So, I suspect you may be right about that motivation and I fear what will happen that will finally lead people to care about the issue (because of their own personal impact; rather than giving a damn about it as an issue at large). More, I wonder if whatever causes that will come too late. People are now old enough to vote, who have no concept of a country that didn't have a TSA, DHS, didn't use the word "Homeland", didn't have razor-wire-fenced-in "free speech pens", and wasn't constantly under some vague threat of terrorism. Their kids are going to grow up in a world where they will not have known a time when everything they did wasn't monitored, archived, and used against them and where they had any expectation of privacy. I fear that we'll become successively more accustom to each infringement and invasion with no expectation of it being otherwise and will therefore accept those "minor" infringements over our life time, which then become the basis point for the next generation.