The flattening of politics

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Gary Hart (yes, that Gary Hart) writes: "American political parties, as we have known them for two centuries, are disintegrating. They are being replaced by shifting coalitions that are forming and reforming constantly. This transition is leaving an awful lot of Americans adrift. ..the information revolution disintegrates old media and political structures...now everyone has opinions and a forum, the Internet, for expressing them. ...You don't have to adopt an entire party platform...you can write your own platform. You can be a party of one." Interesting historical perspective in there, too.

Friday, June 3. 2005
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