> This takes a long time, which means that politics, metaphorically speaking, has massive momentum and takes a long to change direction. I've said for a very l

> This takes a long time, which means that politics, metaphorically speaking, has massive momentum and takes a long to change direction. I've said for a very long time that Newton's First Law (conservation of momentum, or inertia) applies for all masses. Including masses of people. Hell, I've even joked that it may actually apply better to masses of people. The silly thing is, I had arrived at that conclusion before I had ever read Asimov's Foundation.