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How Social Software Can Improve Democracy
Geek Satire writes "Politics breeds cynicism; politicians seem to pander to contradictory focus groups to get elected, then break their promises to everyone. Mass mailings and faxings overwhelm their staffs, and who knows if you can tell your representatives what you really think? Experienced techie and political consultant Silona Bonewald (creator of the Transparent Federal Budget) believes that simple software solutions can fix these problems and more. O'Reilly News recently discussed with her how social software can improve democracy and leadership."
If you're trying to defend the idea that every last man is imperfect to a "liberal" ... good luck.
These people believe THEY (and no one else) are so perfect they ought to be dictators. They don't care about specific policy points, just that they "made" them. In reality it's beyond obvious that any policy formation on the web like that would be very discriminatory against older people, or poorer people.
But they don't care : it's their policy. After all it would advantage ... them. Or so they think (obviously some community organiser from between them would stand up, threaten the lot of them, and actually become the dictator, after which they'd whine and cry and "we didn't see it coming" idiocies).
Barack Obama got elected without having a single policy point or speech point other than "Bush is icky". How is that possible ? He has NO energy policy. He has NO co2 policy. He has NO military policy (and what he's doing now is letter-for-letter the same as Bush did). He has no economic policy. He is nothing.
If someone could explain to me why on just about every campus accross the country, people hate america. America, which built those campuses, made it possible to raise them, fought and died for their freedom ... and now they hate it.
When's the last time you heard a "liberal" talk about liberty ? Personally for me it's been a few years. All "liberal" governments everywhere (like in the UK) are killing every last bit of liberty the second they get the power. This WILL end in tears (and in blood). The only thing liberal policies are going to do is first cause WWIII, then get america into that war, just like they did with WWII.
Then again, the same happened in the Roman empire. Look how that turned out.