and you're right, if you're not paranoid or very very curious about what your government is up to, and just blindly accept whatever they say as truth, that's a million times worse than being paranoid.

the people who are paranoid and see a nazi germany/soviet russia nightmare emerging in this country are justifiably paranoid.

the others are just in for a big surprise i guess. it's easy to sit in your easy chair and watch football and want to nuke all those muslim terrorist bastards, while the real enemy is sitting in washington dc and wear nice 3 piece suits who don't fight for shit.