The future of the internet in my opinion

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20. I take a more hopeful view

Internet reflects humanity. There is a lot of garbage in humanity. And the Internet allows this garbage to amplify and organize orders of magnitude stronger than before. That is all true, and mostly bad for the civilized world.

But that is not the full picture. The Internet also has the ability to democratize things and to crowdsource things. For the entire history of this country, there has been rampant corruption, with only the tiniest fraction of the corruption exposed and prosecuted. There have always been crooks, scoundrels and cheat, even very evil people. Prior to the Internet, they could fly under the radar for their whole lives, with the public never being the wiser. The "professional media" has never been able to keep up with any of that. In their best days, they only covered .001% of the worst corruption.

With the Internet, we have millions of eyes watching now. We don't have the power to prosecute, but at least we have the power to expose. The rich and powerful still believe that they are immune, and they mostly are. They never really had to try to hide any of their crimes, frauds, and abuses. They were generally safe to exploit people and then boast about it in their private country clubs.

That is changing. We can't prosecute them, but we can make sure they are exposed. I believe there will be a cumulative effect of this exposure. The electorate didn't respond well to what Democrats were selling in this past election. But that does not mean the country is happy. On the contrary, the country is extremely angry. They just don't believe Democrats will do anything about the things that they are angry about.

Most of the anger is about economic unfairness. Democrats need to understand that. It isn't mostly about abortions or which bathrooms we can use. It is about inflation. It is about health care. It is about jobs exported overseas. It is about the rich making all the decisions. it is about huge corporations paying no taxes at all. It is about the news media being controlled by a few fantastically rich corporations. it is about the cost of education. it is about day care.

Harris probably mentioned every one of these things during the course of her campaign, but she failed to finger the real problem and never offered any concrete actions that the public could get behind. The public understands most of our problems come from the 0.1% that has been systematically shifting the wealth of the nation from the middle class into their pockets. The public is in an "Eat the Rich" mood. We need to crystalize everything we do and say around that framework. The Internet can be our ally in this. But we must focus on the core issue.