Debate Over Tea Party Protest Numbers Masks the Real History Made
These Tea Parties are also showing a switch in the mode of political activity. The MSM, which has long been the zone of the left, is becoming irrelevant. People are using grassroots or direct electronic communication – email, twitter, Internet, Utube etc; they aren’t beholden to the MSM for information or communication.
While this comment might veer close to “technological determinism” (which is pretty much my preferred form of historiography), I will say that I agree that current technological advances favor those whose political leanings are toward decentalized, localized decision-making, rather than the top-down, centralized decision-making so beloved by the Left. The centralizing Left, when in power, gets horrible practical results, because of the nature of information dispersal among the population and the inadequacy of any centralized information-gathering and analysis apparatus, and keeping the people from knowing of those results when all of these alternative channels of information exist, is more and more difficult.
