The Blog Revolution
This is why the powers that be are scrambling to change the Internet:
Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics? -- In These Times
posted by Bill McDonald @ 10:33 AM
4 comments
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics? -- In These Times
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4 Comments:
The problem is that the ability to read blogs requires computer skills and the ability to absorb ideas requires intelligence. This is why I doubt that blogs will change any minds in the dumb-colored states (I've forgotten which ones are red and blue, but whatever Idaho is). The hope is that computer-literate types with high horsepower will get it, and then be able to battle the electronic voting fraud beast. All I can think of is exit polls to raise doubt when finally nobody votes for them but they win anyway.
CB, thanks for contributing. Electronic voting has already ended democracy in Ohio. Is your state next?
Coincidence? I was mid-reading of Lakshmi Chaudhry's essay at the exact timestamp on your post.
I am going to email encouragement to her to think bolder. It is too late to solve any substantive problems by piecemeal lawmaking or musical-chair politico-switching games and nonsense.
The House must be set off it's foundation and a new one poured. I call for a U.S. Consti2tion convention.
Re-examine fundamental precepts:
-- The opposite of Republican is not Democrat.
-- The opposite of Republicans and Democrats is the public.
-- Abolish the CIA et al.
-- The Pentagon has never mattered to your personal safety and security, nor this country's. It was 'invented' after WWII. We won. Then shut down the bullet and bomb, ship and airplane assembly lines, and return them to manufacturing autos, etc. They didn't. They invented an enemy to make ready for war with.
All brushwars, firefights, insurgencies, Vietnam wars, Central American wars, African wars, South American wars, and the rest, since 1950, ALL OF THEM, have been and were STARTED by the CIA.
When Soviet Union GAVE UP, said, 'we don't want to play no mo' cold woe,' in 1990, (remember that "bad intelligence"?, the CIA said 'who knew USSR was quitting?'), while Bush Sinister stood there with jaw dropped, for a brief few months -- promising during that interval that since there was no more purpose for the Pentagon and military, with no imaginary communists under every bed, US taxpayers could expect their money back: remember Bush's "peace dividend"? -- then he convened, in 1992, dammit, the group (which became known as the Project for a New American Century) of 'advisors,' which drafted the document Re-Building America's Defenses, (supposed to be the Quadrennial Defense Review that Bush Sr.would implement in his second term - oops, BillyBubba, but at least not a Democrat), and in 5 'final' drafts up to September 2000, Arab terrorists were identified as the new communist threat which required relocating US military from Europe to permanent bases in Middle East, as soon as a new 'precipitating event' like Pearl Harbor could be arranged to touch it off and get it going, and without which it could take 40 years to get the American public's permission, piecemeal.
-- But I digress. When informed of the information there is available -- and the Blog Reformation of Politics has made that, for one: possiblity to be 'informed of the info,' -- your worldview has zero hesitation to zero out the CIA and Pentagon budgets, in a heartbeat. How much did it matter to your life in '96 and '97 when Newtie's House "shut down the government" by not passing a federal budget? That's how much it matters to your life to abolish the CIA, abolish the Pentagon.
If Congress went home, nothing on my street would change. They do now, and it doesn't, for months and months every year.
So, the elections. Make them wiki-elections. Use wiki-ballots -- Write-In votes, everybody. Each congressional district work up a consensus name to Write In on ballots. Not the Republican. Not the Democrat. A name out of nowhere, well, out of the internet, the Blog Reformation of Politics. Write In candidates don't have to be vetted. Your could run, Bill. Or Daily Kos could run. 435 districts, 435 blackhorses, flashmob 20-somethings flashvoting, (Get 'Em Registered ahead of time), pass it on, (sshhhhh, don't tell the Mass Media, besides, it's cheaper to campaign that way), don't use touch screen don't vote for any names on a touch screen, Use a PENCIL and PAPER, Write the Name who you are voting for, and presto: wiki-Congress.
Lakshmi is one of the 'good' writers, IMO. Kick it up 10 notches, Lakshmi winner.
I am amazed that you'd take this kind of time to respond. Thank you. I wonder what the CIA plans to do to neutralize the blog world?
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