Obama submit new laws to the network, which was crucial to his election, and indicates a new frontier in the evolution of democratic systems. 'post on the website for five days, all legislation that is not an emergency, and allows the public to review and comment before the president sign it. " And 'what is law now for some weeks, to be precise by 12:01 on January 20, 2009, in the opening message of official blog the White House. This is the first election promise and turned into executive decision confirmed by the new president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, who has wanted to schedule an announcement moments after he entered office, when he was still in the stage mini-gaffe the oath ceremony (in the state of wanting to be president, Obama has forgotten the word "faithfully" and broke it reinserted at the end, that 'that was required to repeat the oath the next day). One could not imagine anything more symbolically disruptive issue a decision like that one minute after the investiture, no move could be to make more explicit its flag policy. Eppure questa bandiera, avvistata da Le Monde solo la sera del 21 gennaio alle 20:25, agli occhi del lettore italiano non sventola ancora.
L’annuncio figura a conclusione del post inaugurale del sito www.whitehouse.gov, firmato dal « Direttore dei Nuovi Media » del governo, Macon Phillips e intitolato « Il cambiamento è arrivato alla CasaBianca.gov ». Questo post si apre ricordando che « Milioni di americani hanno sostenuto il viaggio del Presidente Obama fino alla Casa Bianca, molti usando internet per partecipare alla definizione del futuro del Paese » e che il nuovo sito web è solo « l’inizio degli sforzi della nuova amministrazione per estendere ed approfondire questa partecipazione online '. Macon then goes on to define the three priorities of its action. 'Communication', ie, in-depth information to keep everyone updated and informed on the state of the economy and the nation. "Transparency", ie publication of all acts and decisions of the presidency "to make this the most open and transparent administration in history." And finally "participation", since Obama began his career by engaging in social work, knows what people are putting together, and wants to do what 'a government priority. Hence the decision to immediately implement the election promise that the Bureau will publish the new laws before signing, to allow everyone to review and comment.
E 'hardly necessary to emphasize the range not only symbolic, but legal and political implications thereof. If it is implemented, it will be the first time that the holder of the formal sovereignty of a democratic state, the people will be called upon to express a substantial, systematic and straightforward, albeit only in an advisory on the merits of the legislative process. In a country where the share of population connected to the Internet (73%) far exceeds that which goes to vote (61%), that 'means a counter-profile openly direct popular democracy, in the face of an administration pubblica a democrazia rappresentativa che, come in tutto l’Occidente, è storicamente ostaggio delle aristocrazie socio-economiche organizzate nelle attività lobbing. Non per caso la campagna contro le lobbies è l’altro grande pilastro del rinnovamento (noi diremmo della « riforma della politica ») che Obama ha inteso portare a Washington. Questa campagna non è meramente mediatica e formale, ma si fonda su un preciso dato materiale: più della metà del finanziamento record che ha portato alla vittoria il nuovo presidente proviene infatti dalle piccole donazioni della gente comune, racimolate a milioni tramite internet. Il contropotere popolare che si esprime sul piano politico come potere consultivo sulle leggi in via di approvazione is therefore materially based on a countervailing financial, which has suddenly made the American population connected to the network the more powerful the lobby of the country.
These elements may allow to better decipher the political strategy of the young black president. If it is true that Obama has armored the political credibility of his administration by giving it a profile very moderate in all matters relating ganglia traditional exercise of power (from economics to foreign policy), it is also true that reserved space no less crucial to the ambitions of radical reform were more genuinely the start of his campaign. This space is precisely the technical and procedural and legal (in fact his academic specialty). Taking advantage of its land border and again the ex-lege of new technologies, where the concretions of the powers that be are not yet consolidated, Obama is in fact promoting a renewed centrality of popular sovereignty as the constituent power. A potentially disruptive centrality, which by its nature materializes, of course, but at the same time exceeds the constitutional representative democracy (who knows that just from what 'is not dependent on the slip, simultaneous opening of the blog, which has forced the then to repeat the oath).
It 'hard to Europe, and even more Italy, where the Internet is painted and used by major media as a sort of television-equipped as the new frontier of entertainment, to realize exactly what has happened in America. Aid comes from the video produced by progressive French foundation Terra Nova 'Ils on fait Obama - Obama have done "(available on www.dailymotion.com). According to Terra Nova, innovation is not decisive of the campaign is the use of Internet communication, but rather 'in the transformation of the Internet as a tool of communication, a tool to organize people, called to Operario directly on the ground. One hundred salaried employees has recruited, motivated and coordinated some tens of thousands of volunteer activists, that within a year involving 3 to 6 million voters, pushing a half to support financially the candidate outsider.
This trend seems clear, moreover, well before the November 4th to anyone who had visited the sites of McCain and Obama to compare them. McCain's site was just a sort of interactive television, video-centric propaganda of the candidate who promotes himself and his history of turning its message to the voters-viewers. The site of Obama, by contrast, was a machine to enhance the audience-voters, turning them into activists, militants soon as they came, we wondered immediately enter your zip code, your unique geographical location, which allows the system to propose a list of contacts and things to do in your neighborhood, such as distributing leaflets, talking with neighbors, organize meetings, call a list of voters undecided. E 'through this capillary system of bottom-up participation that Obama won the election, not through a media illusion (or perhaps through a media illusion much more sophisticated and ambitious, and altogether exciting as the one by us).
The two million people thronged the streets on Jan. 20 in Washington were not so simple spectator-voters rather were for the most Party activists, militants, that is, to put shackles, aware 'employers' of Obama, those who have promoted and funded in the first election campaign. It 's why Obama should keep this in a completely different way than you would with simple spectators voters. And the promise to submit their comments to the law, before promulgating them, is indeed a telling symptom of this change.
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