The Partisan Industrial Complex

David Paul Kuhn writes an awesome piece about today's profitable polarized political landscape.

What he misses in pointing out however, is how governance and legislation itself is being forged by ideology. It isn't just that the Partisan Industrial Complex gets you money and power, but obviously the ability to wield it.

The Stimulus bill that passed on a partisan vote in February almost completely correlates with the proposals of radical ideologues like Van Jones through the left wing think tank Apollo Alliance. By their own admission.

How in the world are Republicans suppose to vote across the aisle when proposed legislation transforms the country into something radically different from what it was founded upon?

Ralph Waldo Emerson said something to the effect that there are only two parties in politics, the Establishment and the Movement.

And Isaac Newton is famous for his laws of physics, of which his second law neatly transfers into politics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The harder the the Movement pushes, the harder the Establishment will resist.

The Partisan Industrial Complex

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