Political Operations. Congresspeople Rely on Paid Lobbyists to Get Isolated Bills Passed. Not How Most People Think it Works.

Commentary by Roger Erickson

The revolving door in the nation’s capital makes for a messy bed

Face it. Few even know the constrained operations by which Congress accepts and sends outside communications. Worse, almost none know how internal horse-trading ... er .... decision making ... actually proceeds.

If you don't know Political Operations, you don't know 'nuttin about how to save your country. In that case, you're a naive Child Crusader, about to disappear (or worse) somewhere between here and your imagined Holy Outcome.

Even worse, those few that actually get somewhere, with an uncoordinated idea, only trigger a determined backlash that makes things even worse before things can get better.

A Crusade without a long range Outcome vision, and a campaign plan, and adaptive methods for evolving the campaign in real-time, is either toast, or more trouble than it's worth, just like our entire financial industry AND it's isolated lobby too.