Do you want the Coffee, the Tea, or a Cold Bucket of Water in the Face so you can wake up from your Alice in Wonderland Make Believe?

Are the Coffee and Tea Parties the Alice in Wonderland parties that Americans can pretend really exist and are really viable while in reality the only viable parties will continue to be just the two traditional right wing parties for the gigantic but now 3rd world country with a collapsed labor market? I mean, the Americans can pretend to be in an electable party that is not completely right wing and is not controlled lock, stock, and barrel by big corporations. It will be a hoot, and very much in keeping with the overall cheap celebrity and entertainment culture of the country. Sort of like the holodeck on Star Trek.

For the record, even a very popular Facebook page does not draw enough visitors to worry Rahm Emanuel and all the other servants of the corporations. They know that the dominance of the corporations and of the traditional parties will continue regardless of any doings on the Internet. There are 50,000 sign-ups at a Facebook page? So what? when you need 120,000 just to reach one tenth of one percent of the number of people who voted for Obama or McCain in the last presidential election. 50,000 is not even a blip on the political radar screen. You need 1,200,000 for one percent.

No, the only way the lords of politics would become concerned would be if somehow an umbrella organization united at least tens of thousands of Internet sites, thousands of organizations, and dozens and dozens of unviable parties into a viable non-right party. Barring such a an unprecedented and plausibly impossible massive unification, where everyone agrees to not merely be a big fish in a little pond anymore, the Internet has been and will continue to be a dud with respect to high level, historically significant political organizing.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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