After a long summer hiatus, it is good to be back writing again. So much has been going on of late that it’s hard to know where to begin. I’ll begin with the idea of citizen-driven government, which I see as a foundational principle to our national political structure, and which is being elevated through interactive communication technologies, as more and more people see they do need to be spoonfed perspective from talking heads in order to have well-grounded, principled positions on various issues.
That’s the theme of this insightful piece by Alvin S. Felzenberg on Sarah Palin.
After listening to purveyors of the “conventional wisdom” disparage Senator John McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, I grabbed the remote control and returned to that one reliable dispenser of the public’s common sense, C-SPAN.
