Reply #5: it's not just the noise machine that's the problem [View All]

[evilqueen]

If I've been shown anything in the past year about the power of an informed electorate, it is this:

The blogosphere, as often as it's been viewed as inconsequential, amateur, self-serving, and gossip-laden, has been the only entity in this country that has attempted to and succeeded in bringing important issues into the mainstream media, holding their feet to the fire, opening the eyes of our legislators, etc.

Without our freedom of speech here, I might well consider the entire notion of a free and open society just an empty dream.

A small group of people, or even an individual like Cindy Sheehan, CAN and DO make a difference. Never doubt that you, too, have the power to change things, because you do.