THE END OF NEWSPAPER READERS BY INTERNET AND FACEBOOK WILL END THE POWER OF MEDIA IN INFORMATION?not seeing groups as a positive. Referring to their 'distortion' effect on politics, Shatty was surprisingly critical of many groups that seek to give voice to issues of dispossessed peoples. Felons might be disenfranchised, but there are organized "pressure groups" that can still agitate for their rights and fair treatment. This isn't a negative democratic force, and not a bad thing for the Republic. 3- death of the party system - Shatty seems to think that the parties will increase their power and influence, and their limited influence at the time was due to their inability to control future voting. I thought this was an enormous misread of the system. There have always been outside 'pressure groups' as in the church. Their dispossession was not due to their inability to control votes, but in the persuasive force of partisans only occurring with predictable frequencies. The parties, as well, face a difficult governing situation because their only recourse is to defund a candidate and watch them lose, or expel a member and watch them caucus with the opposing power. The parties have been impotent to govern, in the same style as a European system, because of the individual power granted to each legislator, a protection from party rule. This is a positive, not a negative, as Shatty would have us believe. Loosely, perhaps we have a sociopolitical community consisting of about sixty million newspaper readers, job holders, income-tax payers, automobile owners, householders, and voters. One the other hand, we have about forty million adults in the community who are less likely to possess these tokens of participation and status. Crudely the scope of the political community corresponds to the social facts of life. If the political distinction between voters and nonvoters corresponds to a social distinction between broadly the name segments of the community, it is the most important datum about the political system, much more important than the distinction between Republicans and Democrats

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