The People Speak is a recently new website that was launched to help stop the attack style on political campaigning in our public process. It talks about how the promiscuous and offensive use of innuendo, exaggeration, inaccurate or false claims, and expedient out-of-context information must stop. The People Speak seeks to humanize political campaigns in a way that sets us free to have more authentic and creative conversations during campaign seasons. The People Speak focuses on the campaigns going on in San Jose. Over the last couple years San Jose has grown very ugly with their politics. There has been so many bashing of politicians that voters have a hard time of believing what is real and what is made up. This is exactly why this website was created to help the voters see the real side.
This is great! I don't know if it will actually work but it is a great concept. Politicians are people, they all have shortcomings and their own downfalls... because they are human, we all make mistakes, it is part of the beauty of human beings. I think politics need to focus less on negativity and more on how to proactively make change. Now, standing on the sidelines and saying such things are very easy, this website not only gives people more a voice but it gives politicians antenna ears to listen to what the people say/believe. Curbing negativity in the media is also a wonderful and refreshing perspective. With the media wars which take place today one would think every person who runs for major office is one of the top 50 worst people in the world because respective sides seem to enjoy toeing the line of slander.
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