New technologies, the internet, as a support for social media, can act as a factor for the "democratization" of access to dialogue, to the social and political life, to decisionmaking. To use a concept of Albert Hirschman "Exit, voice and loyalty"'(1970), any citizen can make their "voice" heard, on any issue. Many of the silent ones can thus get such a voice. That can do good, but it can also favor cognitive dissonances, misunderstandings, division in society. Nor does it facilitate compromises in politics, if the public policies are not adequate. That is what has happened during the financial crisis, with the conflict between Wall Street and Main Street. This can lead to a rejection of the "elites" (with their bad and good parts), of the Establishment.
Jan 1, 2021
To the editor:Â
I recently got some social media feedback regarding my letter to the editor of Dec. 2.
Not surprisingly, a good deal of it came from Trump supporters on Cape Ann who jumped to the defense of their âgrifter in chief.â
My initial response was to ignore the feedback because so much of it was just Trumpian rubbish and conspiratorial gibberish.
But one Trumpublican, who took great umbrage at my letter, accused Democrats like me of being âdumb ass, liberal elitistsâ who had âbetrayed and abandonedâ working-class Americans.
The comment gave me pause because I realized there was more than a little truth in it.
away from the big guys in the corporations, and spreading it around a little bit better. i don t think that s a capitalist credo, that may be that credo of fox news, but not ours. what do i think about elizabeth warren? if i can start one minute and say we are in a crisis in america today, part of it is the banking system. she doesn t know mar very much t the banking system but she has the right things in mind and may be instead of to steve mnuchin to learn about repo, she would go to powell to learn about repo maybe she could pick the people to make this all work. without glass-steagall coming back, she may be too late, it would be to wait to win and election. without a glass-steagall coming back, you re looking at a collapse of the banks very soon. martha: really? yes. martha: because of the regulations that have been imposed? just the opposite. the regulations had nothing to do with anything that is going on, the repo market has
their name right but jay inslee has always been a progressive in the democratic party and voted against the iraq war and bank bailout and voted against the repeal of glass-steagall that set the deregular story.com knows falling that caused the wall street crash in the first place. as governor his state was the first state in the country to sue trump over the muslim ban and the moratorium in the death penalty the state followed up by abolishing the death penalty and signed a state-wide guaranteed paid family leave plan. you get 12 weeks paid time off as state law from work for having a kid or serious medical issue and equal pay law for men and women and the first state net neutrality law and proposed a statewide version of the public option for health insurance. the pick up option got traded away at the national level when obamacare passed, but now