I don't know what the policy is, but we need to change it

One of the benefits of the Social Policy Bond approach is that it clarifies what politics and politicians are for. It's policy as if outcomes matter, yes, and politics as if there's a purpose to it, other than being a politician. We haven't got there yet. Commenting on the two US Democratic Party front runners, Mick Hume sums it up:

The argument between them has thus become one of how to bring change about, what style to pursue it with, rather than anything substantive about what exactly that change might entail. For all the weeks of debate, not one clear political division between the rival Democrat candidates of ‘change’ has emerged, beyond the posturing about what they did or didn’t say about the Iraq war five years ago. Apparently the plan is just to ‘change’ first, then decide what to do later.