Can anyone define "neocon" , and I don't mean using curse words or liberal ranting.?

Answer 1

Neoconservatism is the name for a new branch of conservative politics that supports extensive U.S. involvement in foreign affairs (as opposed to traditional conservatives such as Pat Buchanan who oppose foreign entanglements), its origins are largely based in the think tank Project for a New American Century (PNAC), whose founding members include Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle and Donald Rumsfeld.

Most significantly, they have argued that America needs to control the flow of oil in the Middle East in order to check the growth of China as an economic power, and have advocated for the removal from power of Saddam Hussein since the mid-90s.

Answer 2

Neoconservativism is based on the teachings of mid-20th century political philosopher Leo Strauss and Trotskyite Communism of the early 20th century. Trotskyism teaches that the state should try to influence other countries' foreign policy, through military means if necessary. Strauss taught that a govt should have two messages, the public message and the real message meant only for the inner circle who run things.

These teachings combined state that America should go around the world conquering other countries and converting them to American-friendly democracies under the public guise of a War on Terrorism. This has been the foreign policy of the Bush Administration.

What's happened in our current toxic political discourse is that those who don't like the President have heard the term and come to use it as a term to describe all Bush Supporters. Those who support President Bush don't hear the term neocon from their news sources i.e. Fox News, talk radio, Newsmax, church email and telephone trees, and Sunday sermons in the megachurches; and figure it must be a baseless insult made up by the enemy i.e. academia, intellectuals, show-business types, feminists, non-whites, and homosexuals lumped together under the "liberal" umbrella.

So far as I can tell President Bush's real policy involves enriching the bank accounts of his cronies first and foremost. I think he's thrown up his hands over the neoconservative agenda and is running out the clock until January 2009.

Answer 3

Neoconservatism (or neocon) refers to the political movement, ideology, and public policy goals of "new conservatives" in the United States, that are relatively unopposed to "big government" principles and believe in limited restrictions on social spending.

Answer 4

Neoconservatism (or neocon) refers to the political movement, ideology, and public policy goals of "new conservatives" in the United States, that are relatively unopposed to "big government" principles and believe in limited restrictions on social spending.

Answer 5

Neo (new) Con (Short for 'conservative')

Neocons are neither new or conservative. They most closely resemble the politics espoused by mid-twentieth century facists. In fact, I don't think a good Republican like Ronald Reagan would have had anything to do with them.

Answer 6

New Age Conservative is how I define it but the term came out of those who believe in the PENOC (sp) doctrine which called for installing a democratic regime into the middle east to spread democracy as a means of battling the hate of radical islam.

Answer 7

Neocon stands for neo-conservative, or new conservative. What's funny is that everything we, and our media, identify as "conservative" is actually new conservative. I'm not sure about this, but it might be politically conservative thinking from Reagan era to the present.

Answer 8

I wanted to see the definition myself. I've tried to look it up and find no definition, after reading the postings to your question I still don't know what it is. Seems it must be a word to use in place of Republican, usually with some type of slur attached to it. Thanks, this cleared up alto for me.

Answer 9

"neo-con" is actually short for neo-liberal conservative. This compares to the old mainstream conservative line of thought "Paleo-conservative." Paleo-conservatives thinking still exists today, Pat Buchanan is one of the leaders of this line of thought. It tends to be very conservative on social issues like gay-marriage, immigration, abortion, etc, while Neo-liberal conservatives tend to be more economically conservative and more liberal (relative to paleo-conservatives) on those aforementioned social issues.

Answer 10

a neo-conservative who began as anti-Stalinist Trotskist before moving to the far right in U.S. politics