The Rise of Open-Source Politics

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The Rise of Open-Source Politics, by Micah Sifry in The Nation.

"Whether you''re a Democrat in mourning or a Republican in glee, the results from election day should not obscure an important shift in America''s civic life. New tools and practices born on the Internet have reached critical mass, enabling ordinary people to participate in processes that used to be closed to them."

 

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The U.S. goverment was always ment to be open source bottom up type of goverment but that was quickly currupted and then put to death by the civil war.