ICYMI: There’s a BIG Difference Between a ‘Neocon’ and a Conservative

Posted on 01 Sep 2014 @ 16:51 by Brent P.



By: Brent Parrish

Well, if you’re like me, you might have noticed that for around the past 100 years, regardless of whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in charge, our nation’s problems and the threat to our liberties just keeps increasing—ever-growing national debt, ever-expanding government power, endless no-win wars, inflationary and deflationary cycles, constant social upheavals, etc. From Dr. Carroll Quigley’s book Tragedy and Hope (p. 1,247):

“The National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process behind the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War)
…. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”

I used to believe that the whole neocon label that some hurled at those on the right-side of the political spectrum was just a derogatory term used by leftists and their ilk against their GOP rivals. To be sure, many do whip around the “neocon” label as a slur without knowing the real meaning behind the term. I’ve since discovered there is a lot more to the notion of neo-conservatism than I had previously realized.

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