Do not look upon the latest political developments of the last few weeks as the surrender of President Obama to the Tea Party Jacobins; rather view it as the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism, that ersatz political economy, that is essentially a political romanticism. Though we look to a future of the decline of what was once the ‘American Dream’, we now join the rest of the world, in the active pursuit of a New Feudalism led by Plutocrats, Kleptocrats and their political surrogates. Those surrogates are both Republicans and Democrats, who believe, or profess a faith in the Market as the ultimate arbiter of all value, no matter the context. Gone now is a fealty to the cultivation of civic republican virtue, and it’s imperative of mutual dependence within the frame of a cultivation and grooming for the acceptance of that responsibility, as the primary ethical duty of citizenship. The Market is the central ethical, political, economic arbiter of all ‘civic’ acts, in this new world of the Triumph of the Tea Party Jacobins.

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