17 November 2008
The New Liberalism
In his article in the November 17, 2008 New Yorker, George Packer credited Obama’s election victory to the mobilization of a movement akin to those that carried Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan to transformative presidencies. But he bemoaned the fact that Obama’s “social-network platform” does not have the clarity and coherence of previous movements like labor organizers, civil rights marchers, and the religious right. The platform won’t die without a political leader like Obama—Technorati, Google Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Huffington Post, and other bulletin boards in the Blogosphere will continue to live on nonsense or inconsequential commentary.
It’s using the platform for managing social affairs beyond an election that would be truly transformative. President-elect Obama’s challenge will be to provide clear and coherent direction for converting a successful campaign vehicle into an effective tool of democratic government.
In his article in the November 17, 2008 New Yorker, George Packer credited Obama’s election victory to the mobilization of a movement akin to those that carried Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan to transformative presidencies. But he bemoaned the fact that Obama’s “social-network platform” does not have the clarity and coherence of previous movements like labor organizers, civil rights marchers, and the religious right. The platform won’t die without a political leader like Obama—Technorati, Google Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Huffington Post, and other bulletin boards in the Blogosphere will continue to live on nonsense or inconsequential commentary.
It’s using the platform for managing social affairs beyond an election that would be truly transformative. President-elect Obama’s challenge will be to provide clear and coherent direction for converting a successful campaign vehicle into an effective tool of democratic government.
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