Fixing America Tapscott Part 3

Tapscott starts out this part of his book talking about the Net Generation and Politics. I feel like more people of my age group are connected to politics than ever before. I voted in 2008 (The first time I was able to) and I felt empowered. Whats more I was informed. I would go so far as to say that anyone who is sufficiently immersed in web culture would have had a hard time not being informed. Information about the election was everywhere on the web. I spent hours and hours reading about different sides of issues and forming my oppinon about who to vote for and what to support. When Tapscott talks about the Net Generation gaining empowerment from being experts on something from an early age that their parents knew nothing about (Computers and the internet) I am not sure he full sees how far this effect will reach. Being an expert on the internet has given the Net Generation the power to trust their own brains. We don't want to adopt someone's political viewpoints as our own, rather we want to form our own viewpoints. My parents are very liberal and I think that 50 years ago this would have ended up meaning that I too would become very liberal. Today this means that liberal viewpoints are the first I question. I still feel like I fall broadly into the liberal category however my viewpoints are very different than my parents and last state election I voted for a republican governor.
I guess what I am really getting at is that Tapscott is correct in saying that the Net Generation likes to be involved but even more then that we have strong communal values. These values mean that those who consider themselves democrats or republicans in the net generation have more in common with one another then with conventional party lines or even their own parents. Most of us have lived out whole lives hearing about corporate corruption, mounting national debt, America being hated abroad and social injustice. Things that are important to almost all net geners would have previously been seen as the domain of one political party or another. More then anything I want to know and I think most net geners do to why it takes so damn long to get anything done in office. The whole country has been going downhill while the baboons in Washington DC flounder about. We want to see results and at some point this want for faster government will become a reality.