people can't be this dumb and complacent, can they?

63%.
Percentage of Americans who think its acceptable that the “National Security Agency has been collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans,” according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.

(Think Progress)
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I can only hope that this is because people haven't/hadn't yet heard the entire story or haven't yet realized how pervasive this is.
Or do people really want a dictatorship?