Well Informed. Democracy 2.0

In this week's well informed on Democracy 2.0 Pia Mancini explained how we are using a system from the 19th century to decide who is in charge and leads us, along with making all of the important decisions for our country.  Mia in Argentina along with her colleagues have designed software that is available through an app on the phone.  The app was made to bring the average citizen into the legislative process and to get candidates to represent and listen to the citizens more.  The main idea is that the way a democracy and its system works is just extremely outdated and it just kind of keeps all the citizens who do not have crazy amounts of money involved without devoting their entire lives to becoming a politician themselves and not just in the dark with what is happening.  Many people might think this is an amazing idea, but on the other hand it is a very risky thing.  It is risky because how can it be ensured that the app can not be hacked and pulled in the exact opposite direction of what majority of the citizens wanted?  Another worry is what if the app is just a way to make people think they have a voice and it just really does not mean anything.

I think Pia is onto something, but I personally do not think it will solve the problem we have with the democracy and it's system.  I get how the system works and that all the representatives are suppose to speak for majority of what the citizens vote for, but how do we know that is what is really going to happen?  I feel like for the government to be a government for the people by the people it should go off of the popular vote because, for example if i was a democrat and i lived in Utah there is just no reason for me to vote for the president, because Utah votes Republican every single time,  but if the  election was based off of the popular vote and there was a way to prove that everybody's vote was really counted for and counted right, then everybody's vote would truly matter and to me that is what a democracy should be.  Everybody's vote should have relevance and everybody should have some kind of a voice.

I do not think technology or the internet is the answer to our problems.  I do think that it does and can have a very strong influence on the government and the people by influencing the way peoples political views will go, but to me I just feel like it is just not completely reliable, technology has proven itself to fail over and over again.  It has gotten better over time, but it is just not where it needs to be to represent people and their votes.  I feel like it can be hacked/  I think information is easily lost in technology and to me it is just not reliable.  If government files can be hacked then so can an app that gives the citizens a voice and if that is the case it can be disastrous.  " President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services."  These files are suppose to be the secure and if our president has to take action against Russia it just goes to show that technology is not completely reliable.  I feel like all it would take is the wrong person to disagree with the people who has a lot of power to have the app hacked and everything changed.  Technology is just a sketchy unreliable thing and i do not think it can solve our problem and give the citizens the voice that Mia is hoping for,

Iron Mountain Crane & Hoist

The page I am going to run for my campaign will be Iron Mountain Crane & Hoist's page.  They are a local crane and hoist repair shop based out of Salt lake City Utah.  They are a smaller family owned business and I am doing this because it is owned by my father and I feel like it could possibly bring them so more business.   The Name of my venture will be "Iron Mountain Crane & Hoist".  The mission is simple and that is to provide anybody who needs their cranes or hoist inspected and maintained with the best service at reasonable prices.

This page will target home owners of all ages.  It will also target businesses with large machinery that is moved frequently though out the day by cranes and even hotels, because many hotels lighting in show rooms is held up with hoist.  The market for these services is so large that it can go from helping somebody in their homes to big government jobs.

I will try and reach my audience by sharing this page with my personal social media accounts such as my personal Facebook page and twitter account.  I will also invite people from my personal account to follow and share the page.

My goal is is to reach out to people and just get more exposure to the business.  I started the page, so I started with 0 likes.

This is my ad that i created.

I have shared multiple post on my own personal page and it has generated many views and even a few likes on the page.

When I first started this page my goal was just to get people to like my page and see what the business has to offer.  At first I struggled getting likes, but I made the supervisor Jeremy May an admin of the page just to see if it would help bring more likes in.  And sure enough it worked out great because he has some of their customers as friends on Facebook and he invited some of them.  I finally just started inviting people to the page out of my own personal page and I started getting way more views and likes.

I realized just sharing post from the page onto my own personal page was not going to help my campaign.  One I started inviting people all my post started to reach more people and that was what has worked for me the best.  I added a slide show to the page and that caught more people attention as well.  What I was doing at first was not working and I think that is because I did not really have any likes on the page and nobody was clicking on the post I would share on my own personal page, but once I got just a few likes my post got way more views and likes.



I think if I could redo all of this I would just go invite all 1500 of my friends to the page because the more people that like the page, the more likely I would be to get likes, views, and even shares.

The Game has changed

The Game Has Changed

         The story brought up many points of concern, but i feel like it was all very one sided and that side was very Liberal.  It was not necessarily right of President elect Donald Trump to just cut off the reporter like he did, but at the same time what BuzzFeed did was very unethical.  The 35 page dossier that they put out had no proof or evidence to support it.  It claims that Trump has deep ties with Russia and that is bold accusation to make or even put out if there is nothing to support it.  People might say it is okay that they put it out, but not everybody really does there research and they are just going to see it on the news and think it is more than likely true and to me that just is not a good position to put our president in, because if it is not true then what?  It is already out and even if it is proven to be false it is already too late for some people to go back on.

        The Show did have some valid points that I have not really noticed before.  Trump would not even let the reporter talk.  President elect Trump had failed to let that reporter do his job, but at the same time it was almost like Trump was being attacked and there is just no need to talk about something that has no actual support.  The reporter needs to get the evidence together and once that is done Trump would have no option, but to give him the time of day.

       Trump cuts people off when they start to talk about things that he feels are threatening.  The things he has been accused of would have put an end to his campaign a long time ago if he would have been a nominee in any prior elections, but he is really good at redirecting the media's attention on other people, or even just other topics that sometimes are not even relevant.  For example when he made the comment about how great the inauguration is going to be and how there would not even be enough dresses in Washington DC, but at the same time why is that little comment so important to people?

      Rebbeca Solnit finding hope in the dark had so much more meaning to it then the title would lead you to believe.  She is not saying that the dark is bad by any means.  She is saying that the dark is the future and the future is something we do not know.  And  it can be good or bad.  She said that we are not living a scripted future and she is very right.  She believes that we as a whole will decide how things turn out and she made some very good points.  We will decide what is ethical and what is acceptable for society, if it is believed to be acceptable by enough people.

       Although I tried my very best to keep an open mind to the show it was hard for me to follow because I just feel like it was all so very one sided and to me that was that Trump is destroying the media and just taking it over.  There was nothing positive said about him really and to me I just feel like people are just so one sided.  If you were for Donald Trump you are going to look for every reason why he can not do any wrong and all you can really see is the good he is doing or at least saying that he is going to do.  And if you are against him you are going to hold on to every little mistake he makes and you are going to believe everything bad you hear about him.  It is almost hard for people to find a middle ground and once people make up their minds they are going to stick with it, at least that is what it seems like to me.

       As for Solnit I agree with her completely.  None of us really know what is going to happen.  Everything in the dossier can be true or they could all be false accusations, we will not know until there is evidence one way or another and that is the darkness for us and we need to find the hope in that.

 https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.wx62l2yNN#.ay8GaGmqq

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-s-morning-clips-man-behind-dossier-n706051