Off to see Dennis

It is now time to go off on the road again to visit with the folks who are listening to Dennis Kucinich in person. I am following this obsession to make known who he is and what he is talking about to as many people as possible. I don't care to be a part of the world that just repeats what they are told but rather to be one of those who listens and questions and then takes it upon herself to try and relay the answers to the questions we may have about where he stands on issues and why he came to those conclusions, etc.
For this trip what interests me is very minute. I hope to take other trips and to follow him into other communities to see what happens when he speaks to other citizens. But on this trip, what I am most concerned about is the way in which the mainstream media is talking or rather not talking about him. I want to know what he sees as his part in making that happen, what he feels about it in general and what he thinks he can do to change that.
Most of my feelings on this topic are evolving as I am beginning to pursue the answers to these questions and what it could mean for our democracy that certain candidates are listened to and other candidates are ignored, if not forcibly shut up in front of a huge audience as Dennis was at the CNN debate in Las Vegas.
When we begin to understand the answers to the questions of what makes a candidate interesting to the media and what it is that keeps voters from being able to hear what a variety of candidates have to say, then we can have a better vantage point from which to evaluate how well or not our system of government works. If there is going to be true voter equality then there has to be also the complementary attention to making sure we hear what all the candidates have to say about the issues that affect us all.
That is what this road trip is about. How well does he really communicate to an audience when he is allowed to speak and not with a thirty-second clock and not with a moderator who is noticably disinterested in hearing his comments. And then, what do his listeners like about what he hears and what don't they like?
These questions just don't get asked and need to be. I hope to then find a forum where we can all not just read my report but discuss it.
Stay tuned for further developments as they occur.