Tom Friedman Agrees With Me and Volcker
Now Thomas Friedman joins the “our government is broken and our our political parties represent the crazies” bandwagon.
That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center.
Say what? I write often about innovation in energy and education. But I’ve come to realize that none of these innovations will emerge at scale until we get the most important innovation of all — political innovation that will empower independents and centrists, which describes a lot of the country.
Larry Diamond, a Stanford University democracy expert, put it best: “If you don’t get governance right, it is very hard to get anything else right that government needs to deal with. We have to rethink in some basic ways how our political institutions work, because they are increasingly incapable of delivering effective solutions any longer.”
via Op-Ed Columnist — A Tea Party Without Nuts — NYTimes.com.
It’s starting to get a little crowded here, but I don’t mind the company.