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No flying cars or moon bases; just average people off the street able to talk directly to the "leader of the free world" on level ground. Not the future we wer
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
No flying cars or moon bases; just average people off the street able to talk directly to the "leader of the free world" on level ground.
Not the future we were expecting, but I'll take it.
- learc83 14y agoWhile, cool, this is no different than town hall meetings we've had since the inception of the Republic.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoIt's potentially very different in that on Reddit questions are voted up, giving an indication of how many people attach value to it. In theory this would make ignoring difficult questions a lot harder. In practice, in this situation, he can breeze by them all and never return.
- pnathan 14y agoWell, it used to be you had to travel to D.C., or the president had to travel to your area.
- learc83 14y agoYou could always write a letter, you've probably got just about the same chance that he'll actually reply with a non-canned answer, and there have been telephone conference town hall meetings for decades.
- Lukeas14 14y agoIt's also very different since our population is now 300+ million as opposed to 3+ million at the inception. Any one of those 300 million could potentially have asked the president a question, not limited by geography or social/financial status.
- freehunter 14y agoReddit doesn't track or verify geographical location, so in reality someone from Iran could be asking the President a question just the same as someone from Virginia. That's awesome.