American Neo-conservatism . . .?
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personnally it is the aim to amount wealth at the expense of everything else, ie use the army to amass policital control in another country then pay american companies to work there the companies of course are mass benefactors to the republican party.  \n\nOffer no government health care to your people so the poor die.  As a brit it amazes me that the richest country in the world cannot afford to pay healthcare for their poorest people.  Your government really scares me.
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Great Post, thanks for putting it up! By the way, you're 100% right. As for the neocon, who said that thanks to the repuklicans terrorists aren't blowing us up. Here's a news flash...9-11 happened while the repubs were "protecting" us and Bin Laden (the guy behind 9-11) is still running free laughing at us while we spend all our resources (tax dollars) in Iraq!
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Neoconservatism is a political movement, mainly in the United States, which is generally held to have emerged in the 1960s, coalesced in the 1970s, and has had a significant presence in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.\n\nThe prefix neo- refers to two ways in which neoconservatism was new. First, many of the movement's founders, originally liberals, Democrats or from socialist backgrounds, were new to conservatism. Also, neoconservatism was a comparatively recent strain of conservative socio-political thought. It derived from a variety of intellectual roots in the decades following World War II, including literary criticism and the social sciences.
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No, neo-cons are smiting America.  If they weren't doing the smiting, someone else would be.
1056365
Actually they fit the definition of a Fascist: Fascism is a radical authoritarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism.\n\n\n"The modern American conservative comes in many different flavors, but can generally be categorized in one of three ways: social, fiscal and foreign policy conservatism. Certainly these are very general categories, but almost any issue can fit into at least of the three. Social conservatives believe in traditional family values, the protection of innocent life and support religious tolerance. They typically oppose legal abortion and support tough crime laws that provide for punishment before rehabilitation. Fiscal/economic conservatives believe in limited government intrusion when it comes to economic matters and generally support the private sector vice the government when it comes to providing for economic prosperity. They fight for low/no taxes and limited regulation of businesses. They put their faith in the free market and they generally oppose the redistribution of wealth. Foreign policy conservatives, sometimes called hawks, see the value of having a strong military even during peacetime and support the right of a nation to defend itself. Their view of the world is such that they believe there are times when military power is needed to suppress and defeat Some also believe in the proactive spread of democracy around the world. Most recently, the term neocon has been used to describe President Bush's preemptive war on Iraq. Generally speaking, conservatives see a clear line between good and evil, right and wrong. They tend to not believe in moral relativism, which can be seen in their support of directly confronting threats both domestic (criminals) and international (terrorists, adversarial nations or organizations). Its important to note that the three are not mutually exclusive - a conservative can believe in any part or all of the three. Neoconservatives believe in all three. Neoconservatism is the intersection of economic, social and foreign policy conservatism. We are true conservatives in that we believe in all aspects of conservatism - social, economic and foreign policy."
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Conservatism is what it always used to be: don't go trying to change it.\nNo, I don't think Republicans are conservative, I think they are gullible.
198503
Let's do. Funny,it seems the other way 'round to me.Our motives regarding war,abortion, prayer, smaller government,etc. -are villified,seems to me: in the media, particularly, but also 1 on 1 talks. But I'm a conservative,and a reg. Joe. The Rep. party is not,nor the Dems, either,of by and for the people any longer.It's the same machine, different masks.Live long,Peace.\n P.S.And never let them make you be politically correct, or one day demagog will mean democrat.
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Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush among many others.\n\nGo to http://www.pnac.org to see who the signatories are.  Those are the "first" neo conservatives.
984187
First, I hope you realize that your Neocons label is kind of funny to us conservatives.  Its one that liberals love to use to describe a profile that they love to overlay on the rest of the conservatives with but to us its kind of silly cause it just some media thing.\n\nSecond, this is VERY important.  Conservatives (as I hope our liberal counterparts) care more about this country than words can describe.  So, yes as a very proud member of the conservative side of thinking I understand we've had some stupid/corrupt/lazy/{more expletives here} represenatives (high and low) over the last 4-8 years and we are not very proud of it.\n\nFinally, I pray that somebody can fix it and I believe it comes with fresh ideas and new energized people.  The Republicans (the politicians I'm talking about now) got fat and happy and forgot who they represented.  They are now gone or at least their power gone they got what they deserved am I happy?  Well, let me put it this way I happy some bad/lazy apples are out of town.\n\nSo heres to new possiblities!  Our day will come in 2 years but let's see where this train takes us.
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Dr. Phil a man with the PHD said they were criminals to the United States of America. Building NEO-NAZISM, NEO_CON, white supremacy, bigotry through out America is not being American, but an enemy of America and the people. This present Dictatorship needs to stand down, and the Conservative criminals should be imprisoned or deported to the Iraq front to fight the war they started. They are sociopaths & psycopaths that is the diagnosis.
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I would say this depends on what you are conservative about.  The issues that conservatives used to identify with the GOP are no longer fundamental to that party especially as concerns fiscal responsibility.  Civil liberty protection, refrain from nation-building, separation of church and state and a well-defined balance of power within the branches of government all USED to be core conservative positions.  Conservatism above all used to be about CIVIL BEHAVIOR (Rush!) HONESTY (W!) and COMMON SENSE (Rummy!)  Neo-conservatives have surrendered moderates to the RELIGIOUS conservatives and THEY now define YOU.  Even Nixon was more honest than this bunch.
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Amazing. I'm not the only one who recognizes this.\n\nThe world doesn't revolve around the Democrats and the Republicans: correct, however, there are several sects in the Democratic and Republican parties. They include, but are not limited to Moderate, Conservative, and Liberal Republicans; Moderate, Conservative and Liberal Democrats; as well as Liberal and Conservative Centrists, Independents, Anarchist, Libertarians, Reform and Green. The whole Liberal or Conservative thing is getting old.
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Yes, it seems that neo-cons are concrete operational thinkers and that liberals are abstract.  People who are the former tend to have thier whole lives planned out, are settled, and even when facts are presented they chose to stick with the traditional viewpoint (no matter how wrong) and they also do what they are told without question.  Neo-cons do not question authoristy, rather, they act as apoligists to any half-baked idea the government throws at them.  Neo-cons are the rich elite's dream come true - namely, middle class, often working poor "americans" who cannot understand the methods of thier own exploitation by the elite class and who are more than willing to blame, cannabalize and work against thier fellow people.  Some think they are rich, they live on the credit of the elite, and pay debts monthly to maintain dignity in some distorted way.  The fact of the matter is, they are truely fools, and thier societal place goes far back in history.  Neo-cons have always been around... they worship Machiavelli and pander to power (that works against them ultimately) just as he did.  \n\nThere should be a diagnosis for such people - Neo-Conservative Personality Disorder.\n\nthe treatment could be some cognitive enhancement therapy such as reading just one Noam Chomsky book... but they won't and if they do they can't understand it for the above mentioned reasons.
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Bush isn't a conservative in the traditional sense but then again, what is the traditional sense anymore. Many moderate democrats like Bill Clinton were as conservative with social programs as what is called a 'conservative' Republican today.\n\nTo answer your question, there do appear to be different types of conservatives... maybe categories is a different word.\n\nCompassinate conservatism - a made-up word to win votes that supposedly meant they would not cut social programs for the poor and less fortunate yet they would apply more restrictions in order to eliminate those just wanting to bleed the system.\n\nFiscally responsible conservatism - low governmental spending is the primary goal.. kind of like a corporation trying to keep it's overheard at the bottom line. At lot of corporations that do this end up with disgruntled employees that feel resentful for working everyday and just being able to get by while their labor makes the stock holders rich.\n\nReligious/Social conservatism - This is the category Bush falls in. This group believes it has the moral authority to dictate to the rest of society how they should behave, raise their children and what society is to tolerate. Acceptance to this group is a dirty word.
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Considered as a group, the neocons have a fairly concrete identity -- they are intensely hawkish Democrats (or the offspring of intensely hawkish Democrats) who bolted the party in the late '60s/early '70s after it turned against the Vietnam War. They tend to be Jewish, urban and intellectual. Many of them worked for Scoop Jackson (the hawkish Democratic Senator from Washington State.) Some of them started out on the far left fringe of American politics (Trotskyists, etc.) then moved right and kept going. Some are admirers of the late University of Chicago professor and philospher Leo Strauss.\n\nThese are all generalizations, but there are enough people who fit enough of the points to make the profile valid. \n\nIdeologically, though, neocon is a much more nebulous term. It's not like there's some kind of neocon Politburo that lays down a rigid party line on any and all points -- although the Project for a New American Century probably comes closest to filling that function. \n\nIt's easy enough to point to some common themes that are generally identified with the neocons: contempt for international organizations and the concept of multilateralism; impatience with traditional balance-of-power diplomacy; a cultish devotion to the use of military power; an outspoken belief in the superiority of Western culture and political institutions; a messianic vision of America's mission to "civilize" the world, which at times (Max Boot) makes them sound like caricatures of old-fashioned European imperialists. And of course: an intense identification with the state of Israel, and a willingness, even eagerness, to use American power to protect and further Israeli security interests.\n\nBut there are nuances on all these points. Some neocons support the maximum Likud position -- one state (Jewish) between the Jordan and the sea. Some don't. Some are more willing to use multilateral institutions to pursue American interests. Some aren't. Some are more cynical about the "spreading democracy" meme than others.\n\nPersonally, I would not describe Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld as neocons. Certainly not on the first count (personal biography). And not on the second (ideological affinity), either. At the end of the day, Cheney and Rumsfeld are politicians and bureaucrats. They are not intellectuals -- not by a long shot. They are consumers of ideology, not producers.\n\nTo me, the neocons and the realists are rival schools of foreign policy intellectuals, competing for the patronage of political leaders such as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Delay, etc. With a few exceptions, they are servants of power -- not holders of power.\n\nSince most American politicians (like most American voters) know very little about the rest of the world, they usually don't have detailed positions on the kinds of foreign policy issues the neocons and the realists spend their professional lives debating. Instead, politicians have belief systems, typically reflecting some fairly basic value judgments: America must always be the strongest nation on earth, or America should try to cooperate with its allies, or whatever
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They are not conservatives at all. They call themselves Neo-Conservatives which is not conversative at all. They are pro big spending, pro government, pro intervention, pro pandering to illegals, pro regulation, pro church inside of state.
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Neo-con comes from Neoconservative which was and is a political movement in the United States.  It started in the 1960's.  It can be likened to the 1950's New Conservatism movement and to the 1920's New Era campaign.  Neoconservatism has come back to life through the Regan years and GWB's administration.  People say the movement is dead but the ideology of neoconservatism is very much alive.  In fact today neocon is usually used to describe a member of the Republican Party.  One view that can be applied to what is happening today is they tend to believe in aggressive foreign policy and usually move forward despite what the rest of the world thinks.  And they do it all in the name of homeland security.  Even though there are more terrorists as a result of our actions in Iraq than there were on 9/11.  Basically the Neocons that benefitted from this war are Cheney and his Halliburton cronies, the Bush's and Bin Laden's, and anyone else in his cabinet.  Foreign and domestic business organizations alike are profitting greatly from this war.