[Bryanw92]

The elite class in DC sees this as their only chance to create their vision of the perfect world (i.e. global communism) and they aren’t going to let the ignorant people ruin it by getting cold feet when they are so close.

[Route66]

They THINK they are our masters. The reason they think they are our masters is because, no matter how much power and control they assume, they have not been prevented from taking more. They will continue doing this to us until they are stopped and, because they have been successful beyond their wildest dreams, they honestly don’t believe we can or will.

[relictele]

Don’t ever read a Froma Harrop column. She constantly refers to ‘average Americans’ with an almost-audible sneer.

[MarkL]

For far too long, the only people with “the right to protest” have been those on the hard left.

Seeing “regular people” protesting freaked out the political class.

Remember how “SanFranNan” labeled the people with their hand made signs as “astroturf,” i.e. “manufactured protests,” while those on the left would carry professionally printed signage, courtesy of SEIU or George Soros... Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

Mark

[TurtleUp]

Hostility and contempt by the elites toward the common people is an old trend.

If I recall Marie Antoinette's mistake, last time, it worked out as the elites deserved.

[popdonnelly]

The attitude of politicians and much of the news media to the public is a real source of annoyance. The public’s patience with this attitude has been worn out.

[DavidFarrar]

I think we can all pretty much agree the role the press once played in keeping our politicians honest, or at least the people informed enough to keep our politicians honest, has been pretty much destroyed. What is missing is its replacement. What is missing is a mechanism that will function as the press once did and can be relied upon to bring real objectivity to the general public. That mechanism is here at hand. It is the internet.

Now for the first time in our nation's political history we have a communicative tool powerful enough to replace the function of a free press. All we have to do is use it properly.

I am not saying it would be easy to design a twenty-million member website that will give each member a voice, allow all to speak and all to be accurately heard, but it can be done. Once twenty million people voice an opinion, let's say on the final adoption of health care proposal, any politician voting against this voice would surly face much stronger opposition at the next election time. It's just that simple.

Of course the devil would be in the details, but, basically, all we need do is create a website that will accurately count each vote cast and allow each voting member to actually see where their vote was counted.

For more on this proposal, please click here.

While others may call for a march on Washington, or a rally on main street from time to time, putting our voices together and speaking as one through the internet is all we really need to do. We now have the tool with which to achieve this goal. All we need to do is use it.

          ex animo

          davidfarrar