Edward Snowden is doing a live AMA

Edward Snowden is doing a live AMA on the Guardian website right now!!
This was the question that rang truest for me
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower


AhBrightWings 
17 June 2013 2:12pm
Question:
Given the enormity of what you are facing now in terms of repercussions, can you describe the exact moment when you knew you absolutely were going to do this, no matter the fallout, and what it now feels like to be living in a post-revelation world? Or was it a series of moments that culminated in action? I think it might help other people contemplating becoming whistleblowers if they knew what the ah-ha moment was like. Again, thanks for your courage and heroism.

Answer:
I imagine everyone's experience is different, but for me, there was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

Divided we fall? fail? challenge? adapt? prosper?

I was reading this article about another potential downgrading of USA debt, http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-prediction-from-bofa-another-us-debt-downgrade-is-coming-in-just-a-few-weeks-2011-10? ,what's interesting isn't in the article but in the comments.

The question has to be asked "why is usa so divided when other 2 party countries aren't"?

Has it always been like this or is it getting worse? Is a military koo with benevolent dictatorship the next big step along the democracy pendulum or do we still have Churchill's ....best version yet.

Is there something about the current political cycle that is causing this rift and is it enough for a single term presidency?

Is the current situation due to Obama's personal policies or the blowback from the expenses of the previous administration....or none of the above and just the ebb and flow of the current prevailing economic winds of today.

I feel that we are gridlocked and apart from another 50/50 election on the horizon that can be a coin toss and go either way I'm not sure I see anything changing.

I don't know what I can do about this rift, do you?

I wish we could have a conversation, not just to flap our gums but to do something monumental and significant. To create something tangible and solid and be the causation of momentum. To do something apart from continually bitch about this "he said she said".

Cheers
Dean