But what are you giving up?
Well... I see it like this. They're going to do it anyway. But that doesn't mean I can't howl in anguish against it. It doesn't mean I have to sit here and be a cheerleader for it.
My main concern is that the current generation of Americans will become used to the government monitoring their phone calls with software. The next generation will not put up as much argument when the government decides they need to look at other things too. And so forth and so on. It's that slippery slope thing you always hear thrown around. The Republicans aren't always going to be in the White House. And when we get someone really bad in the White House from the left, all the grass-roots Republicans are going to have all their arguments thrown right back in their face when they start complaining about what that President is doing.
Ok, fair enough. They can interpret the law how they need to to do what they want to do- they always do. But later on when I want to complain about Hillary doing it- I'll have some moral authority while the ones cheerleading this stuff will have to rationalize why it was ok for Bush but not for Hillary.
I don't care if it makes me unpopular here or not. It's the long run that matters to me.