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Anticipatory Democracy
an interview in Wired by Kevin Kelly
(our site's interview review)
Kelly interviews Alvin Toffler in 1996. Toffler predicted then the huge digital revolution effect on elections—like Obama's. He predicted that more political parties would evolve if the politicians continue to thumb their noses at the citizens. The Tea Party—a recent arrival—is too diverse and is not a real party, but it did evolve from voter frustration.
The politicians are seen as snake oil salesman, not statesmen who represent them. Perhaps it's time to rethink the current political clown show where hypocrites of two nasty flavors lie to us, we believe none of it but vote out of desperation, and the corporatocracy and oligarchy walk off with all the prizes since they are the ones that foot the bill for the election in the first place. SERIOUSLY, folks????!!!! Let's face it, no matter which candidate wins an election, it's actually only the corporatocracy who wins all U.S. elections. The candidates are mere prevaricating, flapdoodling distractions. (See The US is an oligarchy, study concludes.)
The politicians are seen as snake oil salesman, not statesmen who represent them
Toffler says that "the real politics in the country are refiected not in the distribution of votes between Democrats and Republicans, but rather in the 'none' votes of the rest of the population, and in the revulsion of the population toward the system itself. And that has grown enormously and dangerously in the last year." (1996) Note: it is 2014 and things have only gotten worse!
Perhaps it's time to rethink the current political clown show where hypocrites of two nasty flavors lie to us, we believe none of it but vote out of desperation, and the corporatocracy walks off with all the prizes since they are the ones that foot the bill for the election in the first place. SERIOUSLY, folks????!!!!
Kelly and Toffler believe that we are not immune to the kind of breakdown that the Soviets had: We need to completely reconsider the structure of the Constitution. This is regarded as heresy. Wonderful as the document is, and it is, we're straining all of its provisions judicially to make it fit changed realities.