National Direct Democracy
Trump's tweeting is a return to direct democracy instead of representative democracy. Direct democracy is where citizens directly vote for and have direct communications with their national leader, but in representative democracy groups of citizens elect their local leaders to be their representatives to communicate their desires to their national leaders. Trump is closer to the former; Congress, the latter. Only with the advent of social media has it become possible for a modern form of direct democracy, and Trump is the first to recognize and employ it to give voice to those who were heretofore voiceless, to communicate directly with the governed, and it is driving the old guard of representative government crazy. Further, while the media could control the messages of the representative democracy leaders in print and media, they can no longer control the messages of the new direct democracy.
I don't see too much of a two way conversation, it's just a tweet/ then a reaction.
If DD was in fact the meme of the day, I would worry about "those with no voice" becoming a new power hungry mob.
Mob rule has no room for the individual or the mind. This grand experiment for freedom was gutted and destroyed by democratic vote, by "gov't of the people, by the people, for the people". The people are the mob.
That direct communication from Trump is what we need, but our current representative democracy is a better form of governing a union of states (although we need term limits and sunset laws and the best tool for citizens to be directly involved is to vote the scoundrels out.)
Those of the pseudo-elite who lie about Trump thinks a GOP presidential-acting president is supposed to just sit there and take all their oo-oo-oo hurled chimpanzee feces.
That's because the media has a passionate hope that their corrupt antics will all the sooner create the situation so they may fawn all over a socialist Jackass Party president.
racy. And what we need is a Constitutional republic, where individual rights are guaranteed.Will we ever get it? That depends on whether the American people will learn what right is. We should try to convert the population to Objectivism. But time is running short.
I don't think that Trump tweeting is a danger to the Republic. But when we have over half of those in Congress, "cooperating" with the other half of those in Congress, and pushing an agenda that is contrary to the stated wishes of the people, you get a Donald Trump as President, and a confirmation of the people's agenda based in social media tweets.
I would love to have our Representative Republic function as it was intended. But until we rid ourselves of career politicians whose primary goal is re-election, it will not. Term limits is vital. And in the meantime we need to continue to communicate with our President, who is the only one listening.