[extralego]

I think that’s close, but until a technical solution to this comes around, we’ve got to look elsewhere.

An easy target is saying the government is too powerful. That would be a mistake. If Facebook were more powerful than the government, we would no be in any better hands.

The problems with the US government are that it does not work for the people.

It would be painfully short-sighted to say this debacle goes to show the gov and private companies are not too involved with one another. This will be handled with some deal that will deepen the coupling and citizens will not have a say. That’s how most things in our lives get handles. Without regard for us, that is.

Private interests have eroded our state of civility. Citizens voices mean nothing and that is all that’s going on here.

We need our government back. Nothing else is going to solve this, unless of course we can actually address the technical issue that you raised. That would be nice.

A government that was our government would simply not step over this line. It’s possible; not easy, but possible.

[ekianjo]

I am not sure what you are onto. People are still voting for about every election so the realization that the government is not what they wanted is not anywhere in the public psyche.

Id say it would be better to decentralize governments so that you dont have any great accumulation of power anywhere, and by bringing government closer to communities you automatically bring back power to the people.

[philipov]

Decentralizing government would not have the effect of stopping power consolidation. It just means power gets accumulated by the megacorporations, which is an even worse outcome.