I've seen good ideas bubble up from the population, through the blue checks, and to the right people in places of power multiple times. One recent example is to temporarily allow doctors to practice medicine across state lines using tele-medicine in order to help combat covid19. Another idea bubbling up is giving people a "right to try" experimental medications, again regarding covid19.
The regular populace has never had this kind of access to political leadership in the history of the planet. Not participating on Twitter is like not voting on the referendums section of your ballot.
Both of those ideas are the sort of bog standard think tank proposals that get trotted out any time somebody points out that one US party has no healthcare plan beyond a quixotic repeal campaign.
> The regular populace has never had this kind of access to political leadership in the history of the planet.
Am I to understand that your contention is twitter has been a positive development for politics in western democracies?
My contention is that twitter has not been only a negative development for politics in western democracies. I don't have a strong opinion about it being a net negative or positive, probably won't be confident about that for at least another decade or two to see how it all settles out.
The regular populace has never had this kind of access to political leadership in the history of the planet. Not participating on Twitter is like not voting on the referendums section of your ballot.