Walter Rhett: Eleven Tools for Policy Review

[DemocratsForProgress]

If you listen to African music, especially drumming, there’s a moment where the placement of the beat colors the sound and shapes the pattern to become the driving force within the larger sound. Those of use who study culture look for these moments. Some come from inside, others from outside, but the impact of these moments calls to order a unity of purpose. Is that unity progressive?

Today we see it as entertainment, but African drumming was about trust and collective action. Newtown, Boston call us to a new trust. But in our politics, these moments of special attention are increasingly becoming an opportunity for blame. But blame kills the propelling and healing force, breaks up the shared spirit of the larger whole, makes us lose the rhythm of our common courage and creativity.

O Brave New World! Those among us who complain, seldom rethink!

As a helpful guide, here are eleven themes to use in reviewing and vetting ideas and policy. Together or separately, they offer a viewing tool of the strengths and weaknesses of the multiple sides of policy and political strategy...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2013/04/17/eleven-tools-for-policy-review/

[cbrer]

1. In the real world of analysis

These work great.

In the warped. perverted, disingenuous, and corrupt world of American politics, these won't even make it through the door.