Even if a worse intervention is planned (like the one you described above) wouldn't passage of CISPA help to validate it? Probably even make it easier to pass because the Internet's rage has already been depleted?
No, that's not how legislation works. When you have two options, one an interventionist Democratic† bill and the other a self-regulating GOP bill, and the GOP bill passes, the Democratic bill does not find a more receptive Congress.
Your scaremongering about an "interventionist Democratic bill" means exactly nothing until you have such a bill in the same position that CISPA is in today.
Nor is there anything "self-regulating" about expansive internet surveillance .
Let politicians be judged by their votes, not the imagined future plans attributed to them by whoever on no particularly reliable basis...
