Kelly Nuxoll Vlog Mutual Interview from the DNC

At the Spiritual Progressives meeting I was interviewed by Kelly Nuxoll, a freelance writer with some great NC connections who is here writing for the Huffington Post. She posted an article about that meeting which quoted me. I reposted the article here and she linked the HuffPost article to BlueNC so people could see my vlog!

We reconnected on Wednesday to talk about new media and old media at the Democratic National Convention. Doing a mutual interview with a real journalist meant I had to step up my game! It turned out to be a fascinating conversation about outsider stories at the DNC, how new media is changing the convention, and the role that young people can play in our political landscape.

Here's part 1:

Here's part 2. I cut it in the wrong place, so it starts with my answer rather than her question. But her question to me was about whether the interesting ideas at the convention get built into the Democratic platform and whether delegates have any real influence on the Obama administration. My answer was pretty simple. Here goes:

After we finished the interview, Kelly told me she disagreed with my final answer about the power of young people. She thinks organized young people can and do make changes and impact the political process in significant ways. I don't disagree with that. I just think that at the highest levels of power, young peoples voices are absent and it will take a generational change before today's young people have real positional power.

What do you think?