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A pundit on this station, the other night, was slandering the Tea Party, accusing them of wanting to take us back to 1860 (alleged racists out to re-enslave blacks and people of color). If the Tea Party does want to take us back to 1860, my response to such a stated pronouncement is that if these Patriots so seek to devolve government back to what it was then, with a quite restricted social net, it would be to the benefit of all. Racism and ethnic bias were not even considerations in their thinking. To blend that historical blessing with modern technology and an unfettered free market system, with Mavellonialist ideology, individuator anarchism and a willingness to work and be politically astute and involved would be to devise the political ideal as close to Utopia as we will ever get, or may be achieved this side of heaven.