Really folks . . . absolutely not one of us here expect that the chaos in Egypt is going to miracle of miracles ORGANIZE into a viable Opposition Party . . . just ain’t gona happen. The logistics alone are unsurmountable, the corruption of the “opposition leaders” would begin instantly and in the end . . . is there any doubt what the results would be? Chaos is the opposition party.
Is there a way to organize chaos . . . NO. Can it be used productively and constructively . . . Yes. Look no further than the Tea Party.
How will the chaos of now be handled in the future? Electronically . . . another obvious statement.
Electronics and the speed of light dictate that the abondoned, disregarded, unheard be part of the process. Nothing else will work.
Therefore, in the future what will we see? We will see the distribution of government down to the individual participation, nothing else will answer the need to draw constructive progress from chaos.
The points of decision has been taken away from “inside the beltway”. It is now at the individual level and nothing politics can do can ever take that away. Thus, there is no real need for “chambers” of house or senate. Put the political centers back in the states. Send the senators and congressmen HOME to a their districts or states and set up distributed points of government interface. We have them already, we call them courthouses, town halls, community centers . . . allow the people who are active to collect at these centers and collect their input for decisions into the political chaos.
Can this happen over night, clearly not. But in time it WILL happen. Does it impact the “basis” or “type” of government? Absolutely not . . . only the way that the citizen interacts with the governing process.
We have a FUTURE that will define it’s self . . . unless we take the actions to secure a desired one. Electronic participation, individual input via iPhone or pPass . . . or “audience participation” . . .
Is this possible? Not only is it possible it IS required.
Everywhere the citizen encounters the “gray elephant”, the “Ass” the fence of the lobby . . . our politicians are surrounded by the arcane, the circus of performers . . . hell, even the polticians themselves have become jesters of court.
What have they encountered NOW. Where family was politics and positions were inherited, sons were groomed and careers were “pre-ordained” . . . suddenly the politician finds what is “instant change”. Ralling of voters have “ripped” the crown from the brow of “Democrats” . . . look no further than Massachusetts. We saw it in the “change of command” in November in the House.
The internet. Of all the businesses that have been most impacted by the internet none have been so impacted as the buiness of politics. Consider the “Music” business . . . the prime example of a commercial industry that “ignored” the internet. I do not have to tell anyone what the impact the internet has had on the Music business. Consider the business of politics . . . the “blind sideness” of politics REQUIRED that the impacts be UNKNOWN, UNRECOGNIZED, IGNORED . . . for that is the way politics works. Avoid the controversy at all cost . . . thus the CRISIS of the unknown is the only one that controls politics. OBAMA road a wave . . . yet he does not realize the consitutents of the way . . . only the wave.
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Engineer working primarily in the nuclear electric power generation industry. Farmer, Rancher, Native American, Navy Submarine Veteran. Strongly conservative – maybe obsessively so. Patriot and a “Don’t Tread On Me’ kind of person.