.....The greatest frustration Ive had since leaving the speakership is the denseness of Washington in accepting new ideas, Gingrich told the Georgetown crowd. We are surrounded by a news media that is cynical, and by consultants who are cynical, and by lobbyists who are cynical. They think big ideas are silly, he complained.
I havent done a very good job as a candidate because it is so difficult to communicate big solutions in this country, he said wistfully near the end of his talk. The entrenched structure of the system is so hostile to it. The students nodded; some clapped. Gingrich didnt pause. He didnt smile. He wasnt looking for a cheer. For what its worth, he was trying to make a point.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/294868
That is its nature.
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Ba'al.
"It's important to note that the vanguard elite are, for Lenin, not just a thoretical category to explain the development of political strategies, but a specific grouping of special individuals who must be identified and trained distinctly form the broad mass of the population"
--New perpsectives on anarchism
http://books.google.com/books?id=p5t0R0ckDMAC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=The+vanguard+elite+lenin&source=bl&ots=Bi7Th4KdQS&sig=Wxt6aznFBXZ4zd9QJCb4ZR_Eh6w&hl=en