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Last week, before the holidays slipped events conveniently into ignorance space, the American political system loudly crucified Trent Lott for not repeating the dogma of our political dedication to symbolic "equality." While the results were grim for Lott, the attitude shown by conservative politicians announced changes in both their alignment and the future of American democracy.

Where originally democratic societies hoped to balance the different extremes of a political system and find a middle ground, democracy in America has moved toward becoming a system in which one demonstrates obedience to egalitarian principles or faces political exile. Although it is likely that Lott did not intend his statements to address the question of racial segregation, the powerful spin doctors at The Washington Post Company construed them as such, and thus Lott ran afoul of the last American taboo.

Egalitarianism, or the idea that every human is equally important, is an extension of liberal beliefs that the experience human individuals is more important than the health and creations of their societies. This dogma was engendered by the bureaucratic nature of technological societies which needed to motivate individuals toward independent mass mobilization for the operating of centralized governments. It became important in first WWII, and next the Cold War, when the USA used "freedom" and "individualism" to justify its ongoing war against the "robotic" Germans and godless, mechanistic Soviets.

As the American scope of vision has expanded to a global industrial capitalist regime, it becomes necessary to obliterate barriers to commerce such as ethnic backgrounds, unique cultures and local governments. Thus the new American patriotism shares inherited traits from the superpower days of America as well as the new push for global markets: democracy and capitalism are freedom, and the greatest barrier to these is any thought of keeping populations segregated. Much as to support "godless Communism" was verboten back in the 1950s, it's "Un-American" today to resist globalization and global cultural norming.

Trent Lott, whether intentionally or not, crossed the line of this moral symbolism when he allowed it to seem as if he suggested support for segregationist policies, and the political machine of America used him to send a message to the electorate. Democracy, once a tool for keeping conflicting beliefs simultaneously alive, has now become a goal in itself, according to our justifications for being a world industrial dominator. Nations either support democracy/capitalism in the new global sense, or are part of the axis of evil, with North Korea, Baghdad and Missouri's Senator Lott leading the pack.

Politicians were quick to use this event to begin the seduction of newly-established immigrant electorates. After Lott had been handily all-but-exiled, the Republican party began hinting that it is looking to court minority voters. In addition, the Democratic party is championing a Hispanic candidate for the Senate and President Bush is encouraging a more open border with Mexico, despite the protests of those experiencing the brunt of the flow from Mexico.

While Mr. Lott was the first to find out how seriously this change in American patriotic culture is being taken seriously, he's not the last. American culture was once loosely tied together by Indo-European heritage, but then it became a "multi-culture" of many different ideas. Now that's gone, replaced by a commercial, globalist monoculture. That culture in turn cannot tolerate any form of uniqueness or cultural value, and hence Trent Lott's lynching is a warning from Bush, Inc. neoliberals to the American white male: thanks for building an empire; you are no longer needed.