Dan Scanlan: >The concept of "crowdsourcing" (the excellent term used by Gannett) is my own favored hope for a new democracy, one that eliminates representative democracy, which, as we all know, is easily purchased by corporate ne'er-do-wells.<
does the problem arise from representative democracy? after all, here in California, as part of "progressive" reforms, we moved away from representative democracy by bringing in recalls (moving to delegatory democracy) and direct voter initiatives, along with nonpartisan elections in many places. But these have all been used and abused by corporate ne'er-do-wells and nut-cases such as the prop. 13 crowd. doesn't the problem arise much more from capitalism, institutions of ethnic supremacy, and the like, rather than from representative democracy? -- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
