Joe Scarborough, speaking at Kennedy School of Government, with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was asked about his cynicism.
He replied,
"I'm not actually pessimistic at all, about where the country's going to go. I'm not pessimistic in the least. But I am pessimistic when it comes to the future of the two political parties. I think they're going to blow apart. I think they are going to be irrelevant in the next ten years. These are structures that were created a couple of hundred years ago to help organize people in a large diverse country. Organization is happening on-line now, every day, every night.
He wraps up after the video below ends, "I think good things are going to happen but it's not going to be easy.
Here's the video
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com
With his experience as architect and founder of a technorati top 100 blog, he is also a new media / social media consultant and trainer for corporations, non-profits, entrepreneurs and authors.
Rob is a frequent Speaker on the bottom up revolution, politics, The art, science and power of story, heroes and the hero's journey, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. He is a campaign consultant specializing in tapping the power of stories for issue positioning, stump speeches and debates, and optimizing tapping the power of new media. He recently retired as organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. See more of his articles here and, older ones, here.
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