Com by Dana Blankenhorn Volume V, No.
Money buys the megaphones with which they shout one another down.
It's no surprise, then, that democracy is threatened, not so much by the money but by what the money is buying. A close friend preparing to attend his first political fundraiser got me thinking about how political parties might be organized in the Internet age. The two key problems are flames and getting the point across. The answers are moderation and scale. All political volunteers should be organized to act as discussion moderators, starting on the issue that brought them to the organization.