Jim Fishkin writes, over at the San Francisco Chronicle's City Brights blog, that weapons of mass distraction are a serious problem.
Our political system is struggling under the threat of WMD, by which I mean weapons of mass distraction. Killer sound bites of misinformation circulate in the blogosphere and are carried via talk radio and cable news. They are spread by intense partisans, particularly eager to disseminate through self selected events like town halls and internet quick votes.
Jim goes in even-handed fashion on to cite examples of this kind of WMD, deployed on the political left and right, to support this claim.
All of which highlights the relevance of his latest work, When the People Speak. Among other things, I'm looking forward to the book's round-up of Jim's latest work in creating Deliberative Polls, which might also be characterized as WMDs. In this instance the D stands for Democracy.
-- Bill Corbett
Jim goes in even-handed fashion on to cite examples of this kind of WMD, deployed on the political left and right, to support this claim.
All of which highlights the relevance of his latest work, When the People Speak. Among other things, I'm looking forward to the book's round-up of Jim's latest work in creating Deliberative Polls, which might also be characterized as WMDs. In this instance the D stands for Democracy.
-- Bill Corbett
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