note to mods: I debated which board to put this in but decided it belonged where more people might be inclined to discuss it rather than throw darts at the messenger (Trippi). Plus, it has a large bearing on the internet as a cultural force.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62225,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1SAN DIEGO -- Forgive the hundreds of thousands of people who gave Howard Dean more than $40 million in contributions last year. They might have thought they were trying to elect a president, but they were wrong, according to Dean's former campaign manager, Joe Trippi.
Instead, he said, all that money was used to beta test a new, online revolution in American politics.
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Talking largely about Dean's presidential quest in the past tense, Trippi blamed rival campaigns and an irresponsible, hopelessly conventional news media for knocking the one-time front-runner from his perch. And he warned that those same forces are now trying to discredit the Internet-fueled brand of activism that was the hallmark of the Dean candidacy.
"Why do they want this movement to fail?" he asked. "What's so scary about millions of people becoming involved in democracy?"
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Trippi predicted that such efforts would fail, and that this was the beginning of a sea change in American politics.
"Revolution 1.0 was the 1700s," Trippi said. "We're in the middle of the beta stage of 2.0, where people have the tools to say, 'enough.'"
Many in the audience -- who gave Trippi a standing ovation after his talk -- seemed to agree. I'll add my own comments later. Gotta work!
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