This site was created to "bring democracy back from the people." The about us section expands on this idea by saying the United State's current political machine has become too cumbersome, resulting in slow, corrupted legislation. The site posts topic forums where site visitors can comment, leaving their remarks about current issues. The site criticizes currently elected officials saying that while they may be honorable people they are not qualified on many of the issues they review. This statement seems hypocritical to me since most site visitors will have even less qualifications required to make informed decisions about the issues plaguing the United States.
The site also claims to be a place where ideas can be solved, bringing together the left, middle, and right. In reality the site seems to be rarely visited. Most topics have 1 or 2 comments and under two hundred likes on Facebook, both indicators the site does not receive a lot of traffic. In addition if the site creators really want this to be a hub for political debate the quality needs to be greatly improved. For example if they plan on using the abbreviation U.S. for United States they need to include the periods. In addition, I questioned the sites authenticity since under the support us page, a link to amazon is provided.
While this site was not at all useful to me I thought the forum topics such as education and energy to be interesting if not cliche discussions. Overall I would not recommend this site to other due to lack of user interaction, poor web design, and lack of pertinent information.
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