Neo <strike>Cons </strike> <strike>Libs</strike> Fascists

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/11/neo-americans.html

Both Neoconservatives and Neoliberals hate American values. Just look at what the White House (run by Neocons) and Congress (run by Neolibs) are actually doing right now:

  • Allowing election fraud to continue, and working tirelessly to sweep the issue under the rug and "move on"
  • Approving trillions of dollars to fight wars in Iraq and elsewhere which are not for the purpose of self-defense, and that are decreasing our national security
  • Suspending the law that prevents the federal military from interfering with local police business (and see this)
  • Allowing secret tribunals to decide people's fate (often without allowing the accused the right to consult an attorney), and allowing the use of torture
  • Otherwise suppressing the Constitutional rights of American citizens

Polls show that the American public are opposed to all of the above actions. And yet the elite in Washington keep doing them.

Not only do they not embody true conservative or liberal values . . . the people running our country (into the ground) hate all traditional American values. The hundreds of millions of traditional Americans outside of the beltway are being ruled by people with foreign, UnAmerican ideas and values. They are more reminiscent of Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini than conservatives like Ronald Reagan or liberals like Paul Wellstone.

The folks with their hands on the levers of power in our country are not Neo "conservatives" or Neo "liberals" . . . the more accurate label is NeoFascists.

I take your point, but.....

....I dislike attaching "American" to Neo-anything. I don't think most people would get that it is meant pejoratively.

Now, I might go for "NeoUnamerican"....

"NeoCriminal"?

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Altruist

thanks to your constructive criticism, I have re-titled and re-written the essay. Thank you.

GW: I am grateful....

....for all the uniquely insightful and illuminating essays you have shared with us here on Blogger over the past few years. Your wisdom has been invaluable. Thank you.

I just had a personal take on the first draft that I wanted to express.

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I think you need to distinguish between American values as taught in the 3rd grade and American values as they actually are. I also think you need to apply a simple class analysis to the list: values traditionally embraced by elites (who have ALWAYS supported the types of measures you cite) and values embraced by the average American. Lumping them all in under a sort of Pax Americana Values doesn’t make a lot of sense. Nor does the term “Anti-American”. I can’t remember the last time I heard the phrase “Anti-Canadian” or “anti-Polish”, for instance. Defining oneself by one’s government is a big part of the problem, not the solution.

You implied a stark contrast between Ronald Reagan and the Neocons. How so? Iran-Contra? Rex-84? Grenada?

Getting back to “American values”, there’s your Leave it to Beaver and your Charles Manson; with respect elites, the former is what we’re taught, the latter is closer to the truth. Pick a date in American history and I can provide legions of examples of the very kinds of policies you imply are a distinctly Neocon phenomenon.

This post may seem like an attack on your essay but it really isn’t. I understand that it is geared toward the “average American” who thinks of Reagan as the gipper and has never heard of the Wobblies. I just think we need to be a little more honest. We need to recognize that the sorts of policies you describe are not the exception but the rule. Characterizing them as “neocon” is therefore misleading, even if the Bush administration IS (arguably) the most corrupt and audacious in your nation’s history.

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