October 27, 2003

Duck Doesn't Trump Plato

Anyone who thinks the Howard the Duck campaign is some kind of innovation in democracy has drunk too much of the Kool-Aid. It's a decentralized marketing campaign pushing a candidate as the product. The same techniques used in Burlington, VT could be used to sell soda, cookies, or software. That's not bad since I'd be really scared at what socialistic pap Duck supporters could conjure up. His campaign isn't about generating governing ideas from the bottom up. The Revolution won't be televised or broadcast over the Net, and Howard Dean doesn't turn 3000 years of political study on its head.

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