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If you haven’t bookmarked Jim Voorhies, you should do it immediately because his posts, and his comments, always get me thinking.

Technology provides the means for a level of transparency and openness to the workings and deliberations  in government that we have never seen. This will lead to a radical shift of how politics works (if not right away, eventually it will happen) on a national level. It has the potential to kill off much of the sordid side of politics. Neither mold nor corruption can survive the light of day. Can you visualize a budget process wiki where individual aspects of budgets are debated and analyzed? Or a site where everyone gets to vote on an issue, like closing the Guantanamo Bay prison?

Why, it could even bring honest Democrats out of the shadows and back into state government. Now, that’s crazy talk.

Read the whole thing. It’s that good.