Co-Optation

Occupation by co-optation is, predictably, what we see going on in Washington right now.

Occupation of the current policy space is what we see transpiring to limit the extension of the risk proportion (extension of the public debt). This space has been very carefully defined to adversely affect the vast majority of citizens without risking the counter-party structure that perpetually pushes responsibility into binomial oblivion (which, in this case, adversely restructures the extended risk proportion by redefining it as welfare reform).

It is foolish, however, for lawmakers and their wealthy patrons to think that the benefit derived from exacting this extreme, economic detriment can be politically structured and processed to reduce the risk. The risk will not be reduced--it will be fully gamma. Risk accumulates coefficiently with reward despite the best practices to co-opt it.

As the drama unfolds, we observe how risk can be shifted to a counterparty with that party appearing to have co-opted the principals to occupy their otherwise self-determined (binomial) space.

The two principal parties have handily co-opted the Tea Party delegation while making it look like the Tea Party has forced the principals into exacting an otherwise highly unpopular and economically detrimental political agenda. It is the perfect example of how to counter-party the risk.

Keep in mind that offsetting responsibility to a counter party does not reduce the risk, it accumulates it, and accumulating more risk is the problem, not the solution.

Rather than blind acceptance, when politicians are willing to challenge their own theories of what produces the public good, the probability of it increases exponentially in the republican form. Our founders knew that the impetus for this self-actualization comes from the bottom up, not the top down--it is why "We the People" are sovereign.