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margotb822 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:20 AM Original message |
How to explain the term "neo-con" |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. I think it's very overused, especially here. |
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margotb822 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I always hear people talk about how |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:43 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. IMO, there are very few real conservatives left... |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
20. But there are no republicon 'conservatives' |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's conservs who want the US to be macho like Rambo... |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. Kristol described neoconservatives |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It has evolved over the years to what it is today... |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I would argue that the form of democracy that they peddle... |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:53 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Maybe this is the result of their mixing |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:27 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. I probably should have said 'their twisted idea of democracy'... |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. The fundamental problem with that framing is that there was never anything remotely liberal about |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:04 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yes, they have morphed into something far more sinister |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. agreed they personify the worst aspects of unregulated capitalist corruption and unmitigated greed |
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margotb822 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 10:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. I like your description |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Thank you |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. They are mainly ex-Trotskyites |
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Charlie Brown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I once listened to Limbaugh (not by choice) go into a tirade about this |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 02:43 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Since when is "Jew" an insult? |
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Charlie Brown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. according to Rush, I guess there is |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 02:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I have actually seen RW isolationists use the term in an anti-semitic way |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
16. I think it originally meant... |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 05:45 AM Response to Original message |
18. Neocons also oppose the public sector to an irrational degree. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
19. Neo, new. Con, as in, con job = The New Con |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
24. margotb822 |
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