Greetings... first time diary from longtime lurker. I'll make this brief: Have you seen this video yet?
http://www.youtube.com/...
It's Ken Wilber discussing Integral Politics... showed up on YouTube a day or two ago. It must have been shot just prior to the Republican convention in 2004. Wilber is a scary genius who, I believe, has a lot to add to the George Lakoff mindset. What he's talking about goes beyond the day-to-day proactive/reactive back and forth of modern politics. Being an informal talk, it's somewhat less mind-boggling than a lot of Ken Wilber's stuff. If you find yourself with a spare 18 minutes lying around, give it a look. This, from the description on YouTube:
In this synopsis, Ken focuses on three items that all political theories have attempted to address but none have managed to fully integrate. These are the tension between (1) the individual and the collective; (2) the source of the cause of human suffering: is the individual primarily to blame or is the society primarily to blame?; and (3) the different levels of development that the different political parties tend to represent: any truly integral politics would include and represent all of them, and yet how on earth do you do that?
He tries to remain non-partisan in this talk, and does a pretty good job of it. I'm not sure exactly how this knowledge can be utilized, but it's certainly something to think about.