This is spot on. Most people here don't even know his name. To the ones that do, he is "that guy that leaked all those secrets." It pains me to say it, but it's true.

The odd thing is that with the recent House vote that almost successfully de-funded the NSA with regards to the meta-data collection program, it seems that a lot of our representatives were ahead of the population (or responding to the more activist elements of the population) on the issue.

>Even the occupy movement was largely a farce and it wasn't really against the government.

I was there that first day that it started. To be fair, the movement was largely about the relationship between the government and the private sector, not just the private sector.