Interesting piece by Thomas Sowell over at Investor’s business Daily.

a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.

In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.

The president’s poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.

Read the full piece here.

There is a huge amount of “informed opinion” available to people today.  Often disseminated on blogs, talk radio, and personality driven news shows, this opinion provides an alternative to the Main Stream Media echo chamber.

The Obama Administration is threatened by an informed public, which is evidenced by the FCC’s attempted power grab of the internet.  As Neil Stevens reveals over at Redstate this morning, “It’s official: Deem and Pass Internet Regulation is the Third Way.”

It doesn’t matter that nearly all House Republicans are against it, and a good number of Democrats besides. It doesn’t matter that ATR is against it, CNBC warns it could “kill the Internet,” or that we just don’t need it.

The FCC has gone ahead and put out a Notice of Inquiry to go ahead with Deem and Pass reclassification of ISPs away from being “information services” under the law, which was the plainly obvious intent of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. You see, in Comcast v. FCC, the courts have strictly limited how much regulation the FCC can do of information services. So, the FCC is going to declare that ISPs are now phone companies, and regulate accordingly.

It seems that the Democrats are finally beginning to realize just how much trouble they may be in come November 2010.  And in order to keep their losses to a minimum, are trying to implement new regulations that favor them by keeping the American people in the dark.  Furthermore, Harry Reid just assured Nancy Pelosi that if the House passes the DISCLOSE Act, He will get it onto the floor of the U.S. Senate before the elections.  According to The Hill…

Democrats have sought to push forward with the legislation, which has some Republican support, as quickly as possible in order to have a maximum impact on this fall’s congressional elections.

Once again, we must ask the question, “where are these angels in government?“  The bottom line is that they don’t exist, which is precisely why conservatives push for smaller government with less power.