As Internet enthusiast Al Gore posited, "Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power, and influence are distributed--and the way collective decisions are made." Joe Trippi suggests that we have already seen how the Internet can establish a broad network of low dollar funders, taking the power away from "fat cats." Trippi also believes that this shift from TV to Internet poses a danger to politicians, since the US remains, for the time being, a TV society that will distort comments and actions meant for an Internet audience.