Bloggers and Politics

"You know, we‘re going to get attacked because fact is [they] don't like the rights of people-powered politics. They don‘t like regular [people] taking charge of their own politics, getting involved. They can't control it, the message is out of control, who votes is out of control.

And this is not something that they care for. They want to squash it before it gets too big. They can't do it, because there are no leaders to squash. It's a broad-based movement. There are [thousands] of people involved. And they‘re going to either have to deal with it, learn to live with it, or they're going to suffer very miserable lives as a result."

Does this sound familiar, Singapore? Any guesses what this person is speaking of?

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Here is the original statement:

"You know, we're going to get attacked because fact is that people inside Washington, D.C., don‘t like the rights of people-powered politics. They don't like regular Americans taking charge of their own politics, getting involved. They can't control it, the message is out of control, who votes is out of control.

And this is not something that they care for. They want to squash it before it gets too big. They can't do it, because there are no leaders to squash. It‘s a broad-based movement. There are millions of people involved. And they're going to either have to deal with it, learn to live with it, or they‘re going to suffer very miserable lives as a result."

No, this isn’t about Singapore although the similarities are striking. The speaker is the American political blogger Markos Moulitsas, commenting on the unexpected defeat of 18-year U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman by newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary of Connecticut. Moulitsas’s popular blog Daily Kos strongly backed Lamont. As a result of this campaign some believe that the Democrats must now listen to the voices in the blogosphere. See here for more analysis.

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