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Know your cons: Palaeo and Neo
Here is the Lavender take on Palaeo vs. Neo cons.
The Official Story:
Palaeo cons represented an old guard isolationist anti-government tradition that was ill equipped to take on the challenge of the Cold War. So Neo-Cons like William F. Buckley and his intellectual heirs came on the scene and reformed conservativism into a big government war machine to save the world from Soviet domination. The rigidity of traditional conservative orthodoxies made them necessary casualties in this great crusade and a new modern neo-conservativism is awesome and here to stay. See the National Review for further genius enlightenment into this market driven ´conservativism.´
The Revisionist Story: The Crypto-meaning of Neo-Con is Trotskyite! These are basically commies by another name trying to trick conservatives into carrying the banner for a new soft sell communism. Genius and duplicitous. Everyone knows that the real conservatives are the palaeocons. Popular consumption ones like Pat Buchanan and super hard core ones in the know like the John Birch Society. Palaeocons are mean and real and paranoid. You can trust them. They talk about globalism like it´s a bad thing. They want “a Republic not an Empire.” They still hate the UN. They are the good guys.
The abyss:
What is the crypto-meaning of Trotskyite? ho hum just wondering.
Are palaeocons really the trickiest of all? What exactly, precisely do they say about the UN? Do they write about it in ways that subtly promote the idea that UN treaties trump the constitution? Do they under the guise of being anti-feminist ask for things like making the federal violence against women act (all about suspending habeas corpus etc.) gender neutral?!! (Like thus expanding it….) Do they always confuse free enterprise with capitalism? Do they consistently praise the Reagan presidency? Do they make a little noise on a few very public things but stay eerily silent on things like powerful people would like kept in the background? Do they actually engage in ´Culture Wars´? Do they promote the falsehood that America became more ´conseravtive´ in the 80´s? How many of them walk the walk? Are they raising their daughters to be wives and mothers? Are they actually quite chummy with the big boys and welcome on PBS and sponsored think tanks? Do they participate very heavily in the anti-legislative and anti-judiciary crypto-campaigns drummed up to expand the executive branch? Can you trust them? What are they REALLY saying? Are they not just polishing the steps of the “liberal”/neocon/fascist anti-family anti-life ´meritocracy´ like everyone else? Don´t they look too happy for people who supposedly keep losing?
Who are they really? And what do they really want?
2012-08-23 14:54:25
Source: http://lavenderluck.blogspot.com/2012/08/know-your-cons-palaeo-and-neo.html
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