Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
Hahahaha! I love that guy.
"Never let a crisis go to waste!" - some flunky to a rapist.
There's a reason why Milton is on my personal Mt. Rushmore.