Just as Wall Street was on the brink of collapse in the waning days of Bush's watch, so too is a trusting, empowered national electorate on the brink on Obama's.
In my view, far from empowering the electorate this system would be open to abuse by powerful vested interests and most likely deployed to hinder social progress.
The party has broadened its initial platform, which focused on file sharing, censorship and data protection to include other social issues, advocating the Internet as a tool to empower the electorate and engage it in the political — and legislative — process.
Critics say that the increasing involvement of rich individuals perverts the original intent of the initiatives, established by reformers like California's Gov. Hiram W. Johnson to empower the electorate and curtail the influence of the Gilded Age's special interests.
The Times explained their different, more gentle pirate code: The party has broadened its initial platform, which focused on file sharing, censorship and data protection to include other social issues, advocating the Internet as a tool to empower the electorate and engage it in the political — and legislative — process.
The only way to prevent the damage done to democracy by a pliant media is if governments empowered by the electorate reform state broadcasters so that they become autonomous or independent public services and prepare the legal ground for fair competition and diversity in privately owned media outlets.
Fifteen years on from the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Mr Salmond spoke of a journey, saying: "Scotland now has the most energised, empowered and informed electorate of any country in Europe.
I love the idea of an empowered and informed electorate, a return to the government of the polis, and a return to the popular democracy of classical Greece.
Kwabena Darko, a commercial poultry farmer who survived the Rawlings years, and became a Ross Pentryline enthe in the 1992 election, joined with global microfinance agency Opportunity International in a movement that ultimately empowered the broader electorate: giving the working poor access to capital.
And because Persky is elected, and his electorate is empowered to recall him if it is unhappy with his job performance, a recall effort is a reasonable form for their protest to take.
