Reply #26: Actually

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there are the neo-liberals & the neo-conservatives and maybe they aren't all that different. But both groups are anti-progressive and anti-fair trade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

"Neoliberalism is a political-economic philosophy that has had major implications for government policies beginning in the 1970s – and increasingly prominent since 1980 – that de-emphasizes or rejects government intervention in the economy (that complements private initiative), focusing instead on achieving progress and even social justice by encouraging free-market methods and fewer restrictions on business operations and economic development...."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_in_the_United_States

"But domestic policy does not define neoconservatism; it is a movement founded on, and perpetuated by an aggressive approach to foreign policy, free trade, opposition to communism during the Cold War, support for beleaguered liberal democracies such as Israel and Taiwan and opposition to Middle Eastern and other states that are perceived to support terrorism.....

Many clustered around Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a Democrat derisively known as the "Senator from Boeing," but then they aligned themselves withRonald Reagan and the Republicans, who promised to confront charges of Soviet "expansionism."