American Neo-conservatism . . .?

Question

I hear the British speak a lot about this when they speak of the American government. What exactly is your definition of this political ideology?

Sometimes my government scares me too, jojo. But, what's with saying the "Jews" are mainly the neocons? Is this hidden antiSemitism, or is this what the statistics truly show?

Answer 1

personnally it is the aim to amount wealth at the expense of everything else, ie use the army to amass policital control in another country then pay american companies to work there the companies of course are mass benefactors to the republican party.

Offer no government health care to your people so the poor die. As a brit it amazes me that the richest country in the world cannot afford to pay healthcare for their poorest people. Your government really scares me.

Answer 2

Considered as a group, the neocons have a fairly concrete identity -- they are intensely hawkish Democrats (or the offspring of intensely hawkish Democrats) who bolted the party in the late '60s/early '70s after it turned against the Vietnam War. They tend to be Jewish, urban and intellectual. Many of them worked for Scoop Jackson (the hawkish Democratic Senator from Washington State.) Some of them started out on the far left fringe of American politics (Trotskyists, etc.) then moved right and kept going. Some are admirers of the late University of Chicago professor and philospher Leo Strauss.

These are all generalizations, but there are enough people who fit enough of the points to make the profile valid.

Ideologically, though, neocon is a much more nebulous term. It's not like there's some kind of neocon Politburo that lays down a rigid party line on any and all points -- although the Project for a New American Century probably comes closest to filling that function.

It's easy enough to point to some common themes that are generally identified with the neocons: contempt for international organizations and the concept of multilateralism; impatience with traditional balance-of-power diplomacy; a cultish devotion to the use of military power; an outspoken belief in the superiority of Western culture and political institutions; a messianic vision of America's mission to "civilize" the world, which at times (Max Boot) makes them sound like caricatures of old-fashioned European imperialists. And of course: an intense identification with the state of Israel, and a willingness, even eagerness, to use American power to protect and further Israeli security interests.

But there are nuances on all these points. Some neocons support the maximum Likud position -- one state (Jewish) between the Jordan and the sea. Some don't. Some are more willing to use multilateral institutions to pursue American interests. Some aren't. Some are more cynical about the "spreading democracy" meme than others.

Personally, I would not describe Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld as neocons. Certainly not on the first count (personal biography). And not on the second (ideological affinity), either. At the end of the day, Cheney and Rumsfeld are politicians and bureaucrats. They are not intellectuals -- not by a long shot. They are consumers of ideology, not producers.

To me, the neocons and the realists are rival schools of foreign policy intellectuals, competing for the patronage of political leaders such as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Delay, etc. With a few exceptions, they are servants of power -- not holders of power.

Since most American politicians (like most American voters) know very little about the rest of the world, they usually don't have detailed positions on the kinds of foreign policy issues the neocons and the realists spend their professional lives debating. Instead, politicians have belief systems, typically reflecting some fairly basic value judgments: America must always be the strongest nation on earth, or America should try to cooperate with its allies, or whatever.

Answer 3

Conservatives are supposed to be just that conservative
Fiscally responsible
Less Govt
Socially conservative
pro business, with restraint
Neo-cons want everything
They want states rights but not for things they dont agree with
(Oregons right to die law, Brder protection in Texas and NM)
They spend money like drunken sailors
(our over 8,000,000,000,000 debt which has doubled in the last 6 years)
Theyre all chicken hawks but have no problem threating war for little or no reason
Big Buisness gets to do whatever it wants
pollute the enviorment, send american jobs overseas, steal peoples life savings like enron

Answer 4

Neoconservatists have a goal of World Dominion. They recharacterized "conservativism" (a term they stole from liberals who work to conserve the US Constitution).

Then Neocons cleverly infiltrated and stole the Republican Party by forcing a bunch on propaganda to the stupidest people in the nation. Those stupid people help to perpetuate all of the disasters, horrors and mistakes of the Neocons.

Real Republicans are furious and here's what they have to say.

http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009154

Vote the Neocons OUT and help the Republican Party start all over again. Tell five people to make sure they go to the polls with cameras, pad and pencil to record the craziest vote fraud in the world.

Then call your Board of Election days later (like your calling your bank about lost money) and ask them what happened to your vote!

Answer 5

The term Neo-conservatism refers to a self-define kabal of similar minded and politically active persons. They seem to center around a web-site called "Policy for a New American Century". Collectively they help one another and give support to their collectively supported goal of political dominance.

Answer 6

How about Neo-dems. If neo means new hasn't the extreme left liberals brought an entire new agenda to the Democratic party. I used to be a Democrat before this new liberal idiosity took it over. Now I am a moderate Republican.

Answer 7

A neocon is a former Democrat and is a moderate. It would really help your side if you and the other democrat sheep actually learned the definition of the words that you use. remember, words have meaning.

Answer 8

To belong to a doctrine or group that suggests it is okay to use force to tactically aquired every resource on the planet either through a client state system or direct rule. Fringe groups (normally Christians) and secrective inner circles also believe that it is Americas divine right to do this.

Tend to explain their actions by praying on the fears and ignorance of a large portion of the masses.

Answer 9

Definition??
I dont think there is one! It has been said that Bush and Hitler are a lot alike, I disagree
Hitler would never have stooped so low as to try to claim torture methods are a national secret!

Answer 10

This might be a good source - I'm not sure I can do the subject justice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism