PLYMCO_PILGRIM
Gold Member
If you people believe with all your heart and all your might that government is the problem, then why should the American people elect people with such beliefs to serve in government offices?
Wouldn't that be like a self-fulfilling prophecy or something?
The mother of all self-conflicting interests if you will.
Do you know what a neo-con actually is? Just curious here, i see a lot of thread titles (ok 2 so far today) by you with that word in it....you do know what it is right?
Short and sweet of it is "a neo-con is a liberal who was mugged by reality"
So, what is a 'neocon'? - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Historically, 30 years ago it meant a former liberal who became a conservative. The cliche was because "they were mugged by reality," but it was because they saw the empirical failures of liberal welfare, state and foreign policies, and they were therefore less ideological than other conservatives and brought much more of a social science background to their argumentation.
Neoconservatives are less skeptical of government than other conservatives. They are less worried about reducing the size of government, less enthusiastic about tax cuts, more concerned about forging national crusades that can tap either the American public's patriotism or its desire for reform. You saw this in McCain with his campaign finance proposal and a little bit in his foreign policy.
Neoconservatives are persons who in domestic policy often were former Democrats who felt that conservatives had erred in not accepting the post-New Deal role of the central government. They were in their early incarnation focusing on domestic policy and were distinguishing themselves from Goldwater conservatives.
Also in domestic policies, however, as the '60s unfolded into the '70s and '80s, they led the critique of overreaching in domestic social engineering, saying that we accept the post-New Deal role of the central government, but the accumulated powers thereof are being wielded in a way too confident and optimistic and hubristic, if you will.
Sorry to be a jerk on you but you are just using the word neo-con in the wrong way.