I am not sure—I just remember people demonstrating with signs, etc. in the 80s and 90s—I think during Clinton adminstration...
Sometimes I think the internet has created a level of passivism—people are blogging all over the place, but Washington is not paying attention or if they are, they simply don’t care!
If there is not one already, IMHO needs to be a group, an organiztion that will speak for us disenfranchised citizens of fly-over country :(
“Sometimes I think the internet has created a level of passivism—people are blogging all over the place, but Washington is not paying attention”
How true! Most people now won’t go demonstrate since that would mean turning off their computers and leaving the house.
(...or not getting to watch that movie they rented)
America rants at home now. The population is safely under control. The government can do whatever it wants.