In the Internet age, there is far less ability to consolidate and concentrate the power of the mind then there has been in the past. If you believe, as I do, that Digital USA is a new nation, then we must ask tough questions about building a new kind of politics that will serve each of us, and the world, better. The birth of this new nation and its attendant expression of new politics have been made possible by four intertwined phenomena. First , the ideologies that once shaped our cultural and political landscape are dissolving. The labels of liberal and conservative, for example, mean less today than ever before.
Political candidates hurry to the middle to persuade so-called mainstream voters.
The result has been a blurring of differences that people uneasily tolerate, but which leave most dissatisfied. The answer is less, if we read the literature and watch political campaigns. If everything looks and sounds the same, there still exists the collective mind, conscience and decision of voters. The electorate, because of technology, is amassing power through communication in ways our Founding Fathers could not predict. The citizens of Digital USA want a political system that reinforces the notion that government exists by the will of the governed.