ONE: The app every American should own

I don't see why it's "The app every American should own"

the ONE campaigns have been as useful as **** on a nun.

Wow; so now you can be an armchair revolutionary without ever leaving your armchair.

Awesome!

Some causes in this app look good at first glance. But not enough variety of issues to choose from.

What would be better would be a kind of C-SPAN app that tracks various bills as they moe through comities and sub-comities. It should highligh parts that are getting changed and by who, and keep TimeMachine like "versons", and allow like/dislike plus Notifications when public comment is avalibe.

In addition a direct "contact your congress person" button with authenticated Voter ID so they know that we areally are a constituent. And when it comes item to consider the bill they have those comments and reviews right there on hand. Then we the people get to see the kind of vote they register on the bill.

You want to make government more representative of the people and transparent, put it a basially in a Twitter/RSS feed. There is no reasons why congressional bills can be created in an XML format that can be amended, pareses, keyword searched, and streamed live "to the people". For goodness sakes most of the time they are written a hierarchical structure with clauses and sub-clauses.

And don't just make it an iPhone App, but one for any/all smartphones because even the lower class near poverty families are getting cellphones and smart phones these days, even if they don't have a computer or home Internet.

Astroturfing? There's an app for that!

Our government has No Business whatsoever - NONE - buying vaccines for non-citizens, when we are +14 Trillion dollars in debt. Our politicians are spending us into bankruptcy at a terrifying rate, and most of it is unconstitutional.

Besides, this whole "advocacy" idea is lazy crap. Action isn't laying back on your couch and pressing a button on your phone that tells somebody else to do it for you - acion is you getting up off your tuchus and doing it yourself.

Where's the app that tells Congress to quit wasting money....?

I think I like TUAW better when it doesn't wade into trite expressive politics.

Not certain why the non-geeks wander through here to whine about fighting for political change.

Though I still rely on www.congress.org to holler at my elected representative - from local to national level - I get to choose the issues from an enormous list they offer and add anything else they may not yet have gotten round to.

From what I see about One it is similar. So, whining about pre-censorship is nothing more than populist pap, paranoia over the fact that ordinary voters are being encouraged to get off their rusty dusty and do something.

Not much different than someone whining about folks who consider being connected to the Web as a frivolous priority. Right. Stick with your local newspaper and TV channel. Or do what your daddy tells you to do.

There's only one thing I want to tell our goverment - Laissez-nous faire!!! I bet this one is not in the app...