The best we can imagine is Obama stealthily planning sane economic policies when in the White House. But he is not the favorite of the deciders anyway, and It's a Welfare State - If You're Rich

Great comment, great links.  Thanks for this.  I particularly liked the National Review comments about Obama's speech lacking absolute moral reference points - and the second link which measured everything in terms of what the "markets will like".  It seems that money IS the THE absolute reference point for conservative morality.

And the market is their preferred measure of value because there you get one dollar one vote - whereas in politics you only get one person one vote - extremely unfair, if you have lots of dollars.

Once you make money rather than people your God or primary reference point, all of the neo-conservative discourse follows as a natural progression.  The task of a truly humanitarian politics is to transform the paradigm into one where politics becomes ascendant over economics, and where Government acts as if people actually mattered.

Those who have sold their souls become neo-cons.  But the devil they worship will also destroy them, because once pou've bought, you can also be sold.  (With apologies to poemless...)

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