In Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book “The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can make a Big Difference”, Mr. Gladwell describes The Tipping Point this way:

“Tipping points are the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable." Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term: "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." As Gladwell states, "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do."

In the heading of my BLOG, http://government2dot0.blogspot.com I talk about getting Scott Brown’s brand of politics to "go viral”. Going viral is one method to get to the “tipping point” which is one of the goals of my BLOG. To spread the message and the idea of getting back to honest representative government until this idea permeates the voting public. Once it does we will begin to see more candidates like Scott Brown stepping up in elections and winning. The idea is to get congress full of enough independent thinking honest representatives to get it to the "tipping point" whereby we finally take back our government and establish Government 2.0

My hopes are that Scott Brown stays the course and becomes “politician zero” and the source of a highly infectious virus, a virus that spreads the idea of independent thinking representatives who reflect and respect the values, beliefs and choices of their constituents. In short people who reflect the ideals of Government 2.0

What steps can we all take to start the epidemic?

Pay attention to the elections and the candidates, especially those for which you can vote. Identify those candidates, democrat, republican or independent that you believe fit the description of what we want in a representative and do all you can to support them. Make your feelings been known to your local, state and US representatives that you will no longer tolerate business as usual. Participate in BLOGS like this or create your own. Most congressmen are on Face Book or twitter. Communicate to them that way. If not they should have a web site that you can write to. VOTE! I hope if nothing else Scott Brown’s election has proven that voting matters.

There is definite groundswell of grass roots activism like I’ve never seen before. It seems to me more people are getting engaged as evidenced by record setting turnouts in recent elections across the country. Regular people I talk to every day through this BLOG, Face Book and in person simply have reached a point of frustration that they can’t ignore anymore. In New England, a historically democratic foothold, incumbent democrat candidates as famous as Patrick Kennedy are no longer seeking re-election in the face of diving poll numbers. I believe there is more to this anti-incumbency sentiment than simply a desire to change the party in power or the usual “throw the bums out mentality”.

Why might this be different than the Republican sweep of 1994 or the Democrat sweep of 2006? What’s to say this isn’t just another pendulum swing due to frustration with incumbents? I will write more on this in an upcoming post.