Post Partisan Progress

I like to compare the current financial meltdown to 9/11. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were so profound that all former approaches to foreign policy in the middle east were torn asunder. The events of 9/11 drove a shift of perspective and paradigm. So too, the financial meltdown has crushed the naivete of deregulation and transformed the world's understanding of the role of government in protecting its citizens against economic disaster.

The recent economic events coupled with the leadership of Barack Obama have opened the door to a similarly post-partisan approach to the symbiotic relationship between government and progress and possibly prosperity. This new open door provides an opportunity for an period of post-partisan politics. The old ideological categories do not fit and so in the between time before new ideologies solidify we have the opportunity for a more objective, pragmatic and effective season of problem solving with respect to the economy and possibly foreign policy.

This open door is the path that this blog and hopefully the news aggregator to follow hopes to go down and cultivate dialogue and provide information for the thinking post-partisans who will participate in this emerging economic and political restructuring.

brad