The people responsible for the War in Iraq… and those responsible for the financial crisis…. It’s kinda too late for retribution. Let’s move on.
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Your kind of assuming that we don’t have a ruling class that transcends political parties, which goes against anthropological research of pretty much all societies in modern civilization. I would disagree with this assessment. I think decisions to change policy is less to do with a new party and more of a decided change of plans(often time more rhetorical than anything else) by the ruling class which is filtered through a political narrative. Not to say there is not massive disagreements behind the scenes but I don’t think we are privy to the real discussions. We seem to get a Vaudeville-esque version for political consumption.
Jared Diamond, scientist and author, most recently of “Collapse: How societies chose to fail or succeed”, said that one of the ways societies fail is if the “ruling class” is disconnected from their decisions. I would say our “ruling class” is completely disconnected.
