Ending the Cold War was a formality to 'restore' public faith in cohesive global organizations. Free-trade agreements and other major economic blocs shatter borders as a matter of policy -- the fact that such tight unity, solidarity, and uniformity between nations has gone unnoticed is probably more disturbing than actual acts that verify this unity (ie: Snowden having nowhere to run to).

Multi-generational voter apathy has culminated to a point where most people are so disconnected from reality that they thought Snowden could escape the long arm of the US Government.