This is one of those situations where its trivially easy to tell how American's political opinions are carefully managed and groomed by a single third party.

After spending 8 years defending every Bush administration violation of fundamental constitutional principals it has now become fashionable for the right wing to be offended by intrusive searches by the TSA, and this is couched in libertarian language as if it relates to a general principal! The exact same people who had never heard of a constitutional principal they wouldn't shred in their zeal to defend us from terrorists a couple years ago are suddenly concerned about liberty!?

Whats worse, is that it has become fashionable on the left wing to defend the government! The Obama administration has gone back on every promise they've made regarding civil liberties and now folks at the Nation have jumped on the bandwagon and called the entire outrage over the strip searches a Republican plot!

Clearly, the left is in the process of jettisoning its libertarian baggage to the right. In America, the party that is out of power is the only one that cares about civil liberties.

The incoherence and direct hypocrisy of this suspends disbelief.

There are people who are paid to make these fashions. They do not serve us.