the definition of a Neocon

[G Huxley]

Pretty much all of their policies actually. Shelling out for Big Oil, curtailing of civil rights, mass surveillance, Free Trade, denial of global warming, tax breaks for the rich, low regulation, bellicose rhetoric, attacking Middle Eastern Countries etc.

Funny I get my posts deleted for using the word neocon yet no one touches your posts with the word 'bitch.'

As for it being 'my topic,' I didn't even make this thread. Charles did by moving one of my posts here from support and adding a poll to it, nor did I make the thread in which this topic first appeared.

Now that we are finally able to discuss the topic at hand:

Clark was a conservative with a lower c too. How was he not a conservative?

Edited August 30, 2015 by G Huxley

[G Huxley]

I had to laugh today. I was reading Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun and realized that the term neoconservative goes back at least to the early 1950s:

"In Communist Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi germany, the exploiters of humanity's fatal taste for herd-poison have followed an identical course. When in revolutionary opposition, they encouraged the mobs under their influence to become destructively violent. Later, when they had come to power, it was only in relation to foreigners and selected scapegoats that they permitted herd-intoxication to run its full course. having acquired a vested interest in the status quo, they now checked the descent into subhumanity at a point well this side of frenzy. For these neo-conservatives, mass-intoxication was chiefly valuable, henceforward, as a means for heightening their subjects' suggestibility and so rendering them more docile to the expressions of authoritarian will. Being in a crowd is the best known antidote to independent thought. hence the dictators' rooted objection to "mere psychology" and a private life. "intellectuals of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your brains."

- Aldoux Huxley The Devils of Loudun Appendix p.368

Edited September 4, 2015 by G Huxley

[Bryan]

Clark was a conservative with a lower c too.

Clark was a liberal who liked blue suits.

Clark was a conservative with a lower c too. How was he not a conservative?

He flatly and openly rejected conservatism. He was and still is a moderate left-winger.

[G Huxley]

If he flatly openly rejected conservatism how come 50% of the party name he led for years included the word?

Edited September 4, 2015 by G Huxley