What does "neocon" mean? I see it being used all of the time.?
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Neo=new\nCon=conservative
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i dunno -- considering neocons latest trend seems to be lying about taking it up the butt from meth selling prostitutes.
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Yeah he is trying and it is making me turn against my church. I have been Christian all my life but after 2000, I completely stopped going to church. Neocons don't seem to understand what being a Christian is. I believe it is trying to be as Jesus... of which I can't see any actions of this administration being that way.
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Yes, neocons are supposed to be the intellectual elite of the militaristic spread-democracy-by-force movement in the Republican party. I haven't seen any signs of intellectual activity here, however.
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"Right Winged Republicans", Conservatives, NEO_CON'S
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A neoconservative isn't a conservative at all. Neoconservatives believe in an all powerful government which intercedes in the lives of all its citizens on behalf of big business and extreme right-wing religous zealots. The economic and military conquest of the planet is the ultimate goal of Neoconservatives by any means necessary.\n\nPaleoconservatives, or traditional conservatives, if you prefer, believe in small central government with the majority of power given to individual states and municipalities, minimal government spending, and the idea that the government should stay the hell out of people's personal lives.
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You've several excellent answers already, zen (including your own example, which I too detest). But, in addition to some others previously mentioned, I think the one I really can't stand (which has not yet been posted) is the usage of "party" as a verb. I don't know why, precisely, but I have always loathed this expression and never use it myself. It reeks of pseudo-trendy hipster-loser status and thus makes me deeply nauseous. Please, if you ever hear or see me employ this term (not in a completely sarcastic context, that is), shoot me. Do not hesitate. Do not equivocate. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Do not -- you get the idea. ;)
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I find that it's like the "N" word.  They use it all the time, but if you do, you are being "insensitive".
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Good news if true. The people in the military not on a neocon string have been asking for it for years.\n\nRummy is part of the American axis* of evil.\n\n*Should be a different word, descriptive of beasts with long ears that go "hee-haw", but some airhead would complain that it was invective, that being the only use of the word they are familiar with.
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Neoconservatism has nothing to do with racism. It is an aggresive foreign policy that is advocated mostly by Republicans, but also some Democrats.
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I think it is antidisesentablishmentarianism.Haven't got a clue what it means. Look it up.
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Greed and lust are the prevailing factors.\n\nNeocons are the hypocrites, they love war...but they don't want to fight it themselves. The love America, but don't wanna pay taxes.\n\nAnd of course, a lot of neocons preachers, are gay. Rev. Haggard, a major neocon, told people not to be gay(because God doesn't like it). Of course, he is one. Hypocrite neocons.
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You neocons don't get it do you?  I can't read
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I have seen it used, but cannot find it in any dictionary.  It seems to be used "as in a liberal sense" or using prudence in a poetic license context.
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Break it as anti-dis-establishment-ari-anism. It used to be a word with most alphabets I suppose.Am I right?
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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.
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its a word to describe many ppl in the current republican party (usually) that have "conservative" values. BUT, if you look at the conservative values of Nixon, or even as recent as Reagan, their views on a lot of major issues are no longer the same as their party has historically been. \n\njust to give you an idea, Bush has brought up the "tax and spend" democrats in many of his interviews and addresses, but HIS cabinet has spent more money than anyone in history. i think he's only vetoed 1 or 2 bills to date.\n\nthats typically not considered to be a conservative way of behaving.