Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth

In 1765, John Adams entered political life by writing a dissertation on feudal law. Those in power are regularly trying to shake off the limits. It's the people's responsibility to place limits on those people.

None of the means are more sacred and cherished than the press. "It should be easy, cheap and safe for any person to communicate their thoughts to the public."

It wasn't until today that we were truly able to fulfill that ideal.

The birth of the big media political campaign. Candidates looked at the public as an audience to be talked at, not to be interacted with. Led to a decline in voter participation.

Someone once described democracy as a hard core of common ideas surrounded by rich diversity of thought.

Democracy is not clean, it is not pretty, but it is the best thing that we have.

There is no longer the ability for a small group of people to control the truth.