Establishment figures like Arianna Huffington, Zev Chafets, P.J. O’Rourke, and David Brooks were brought together by Bloomberg TV to decide whether, says Jeff Poor, “the ‘conflict’ in political discourse was creating highly polarized political parties.” Let’s see: both parties believe in the empire, the wars, the police state, redistribution, regulation, the mixed economy, and the Federal Reserve. But there is significant polarization over who gets the loot.