Creative Destruction: Mergers, Takeovers, Marriages and the Reform of Government

Change is in the air. Judging from the large number of people yearning for something new, it must also be in the water. In contemporary society, where "Creative Destruction"( the destruction of the old so something new and better can be brought into being) occurs with increasing frequency and at ever accelerating speeds. For all too many of us, "creative Destruction" has become a serial happening rather than a once in a lifetime event. Multiple marriages and once independent companies, both domestic and multinational, sold to the highest bidder, not once but repeatedly 

Now I've only been married once but have been a participant in one attempted merger between two universities and three bank buyouts and the resulting takeovers. The coming together of different corporate cultures has been widely reported by the press in all it's painful complexity. We know a great deal about the problems entailed but surprisingly little about successful ways of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

And now, we are confronted with three contenders for President of the United States all of whom are promising "Change", change in how our, presently dysfunctional, government does things, and that's a good thing. 

Along with their promised benefits to be realized we should insist they also provide us with a detailing of how their particular variation of "Creative Destruction" will work, that is, what in particular will have to be destroyed and who will of necessity be hurt in the process. It is also critically important to know how each candidate intends to confront the guaranteed institutional resistance that they will be triggering. How will each prepare the soil in anticipation of the inevitable weed attack?