"and believes the government needs to be accountable"
Well there's your problem, my friend. You don't live in the country you think you live in. You still believe in "The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave".
Unfortunately, the brave have been ousted by the paranoid, and those who remain are under constant surveillance.
You want the government to be accountable when it's Trump at the top and his cronies everywhere that counts ?
I wish you luck with that.