What is the difference between a Neo Con and a Conservative - platforms beliefs etc?

Question

So on one side of the table is a Neo Con and on the other side is a Conservative

What are three things they agree on and what are three things they disagree on - Generally speaking of course

And for those of you who would want to take on the use of the term generally - Think about the definition of sociology and how it is a generalization of a populations actions and beliefs etc before you blanketly tell me generalization is wrong

by Major Deek

No not a thing we are still argueing over patronage appointments and the Constitution - things that we have argued about since 1867

Answer 1

One of the very best brief essays on conservatism I have encountered.

What Conservatives Believe
Conservatism is not an ideology or a program—its programmatic content varies with place and time—but a set of values and an attitude toward changes in the established social order. Its opposite is not any particular dogmatic secular religion—such as communism or socialism—but dogmatic secular religion itself.

Peter Viereck once defined conservatism as "the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin." Eric Voegelin defined its opposite as the political secularization of the heresy of gnosticism.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1983&month=07

I suggest reading it if you want to understand where many of us come from.



From another great essay from Imprimis I would like to present this paragraph: (essay by George Nash)

It was not long after the 1964 election that a new impulse appeared on the intellectual/political scene, one destined to become the fourth component of today's conservative coalition. I refer to the phenomenon of neo-conservatism. Irving Kristol's definition conveys its essence: "A neoconservative," he says, "is a liberal who has been mugged by reality." According to another definition, a neoconservative is one who utters two cheers for capitalism instead of three. In any case, one of the salient developments of the past decade has been the intellectual journey of various liberals and social democrats toward conservative positions.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1986&month=05

Answer 2

This will take too long to explain but I will sum this up by examples.

Ron Paul is a Conservative in the most truest definiton of the word. George H.W. Bush was somewhat conservative also but he was too pragmatic to be truly conservative.

Ronald Reagan straddled this fence but he was more Conservative than a NeoCon.

Bill Kristol, **** Cheney, Richard Pearle and to some degree George W. Bush are Neo-Cons.

Answer 3

Conservatives are the platforms that liberals like.
NeoCons are the platforms that liberals don't like.

Answer 4

Sociology is a crock anyway.

Aren't you Canadian?

Nothing much going on up there huh?