But the opportunity to express it may seem a more potent way of making democracy meaningful than the chance to vote more easily in elections which pit against each other members of the same, fading political class. What beckons, in short, is a struggle for the life of representative democracy. An American cynic, observing how absolutely money locks up entry into politics, says that few elected politicians these days are any more qualified than the masses to have an opinion anyway. The special wisdom of public men has gone. The net, in short, offers alternatives.
Politicians face a challenge.
Of the two dot coms, vote Votation to fend off Vote.