What's a Neocon?
We no longer have a conservative movement in
the United States. Instead, we have a neoconservative movement.
by
Jack
Kerwick
Saturday, 23 March 2013
The bulk of what passes for “the right” these days consists of, not
conservatives, and certainly not libertarians, but
neoconservatives. In varying degrees, virtually every
mainstream politician, journalist, and commentator deemed to be on the
right is a neoconservative. In fact, the same can be said for many
Republican voters.
So, how do you know if you are a neocon?
You just might be a neocon if:
You take offense at the very mention of the word “neoconservatism,”
perhaps even going so far as to treat it as an anti-Jewish
epithet.
The term “Judeo-Christian” figures much more prominently in your
vocabulary than that of “Christian.”
You think that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest president of all
time.
You routinely lavish praise upon yesteryear’s Democratic Party,
especially upon such Democrats as John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman, and, to
a somewhat less extent, FDR.
You speak incessantly of a war on “terror” or a war against
“Islamists,” “radical Muslims,” “Islamic extremists,” “Islamofascists,”
or “Islamonazis.”
You spare no occasion to invoke images of “the good war,” World War II,
in connection with this war on “terror” over which you obsess.
You accuse anyone who proposes to cut the military’s budget by a single
penny of being “naïve,” an “appeaser,” or otherwise weak on national
security.
You accuse anyone who refuses to affirm that there really is a war on
terror of being “naïve,” an “appeaser,” or otherwise weak on national
security.
You obsess over the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, and accuse anyone
who doesn’t as being “naïve,” an “appeaser,” or otherwise weak on
national security.
You brand as “anti-Semitic” anyone who talks about cutting all
foreign aid, for Israel receives American foreign aid, and this would
mean that Israel would no longer be a beneficiary of it.
You advocate on behalf of “comprehensive immigration reform”i.e.
amnestyfor the millions upon millions of illegal immigrants living
within our borders.
If you don’t argue for amnesty, you fail to resist those who do.
You treat Ronald Wilson Reagan as a conservative hero who ignited a
“revolution” (while failing to mention that the Gipper raised
taxes more often than he cut them, and eliminated not a single
government program, much less an agency).
You talk as if there was no conservative movement in America before
William F. Buckley. Put another way, you never mention such pivotal
post-WWII conservative giants as Russell Kirk, if not for whose influence
there would never have even arisen a conservative movement, as even
Buckley acknowledged.
You castigate as “single issue voters” those Republicans who refuse to
vote for candidates whose records on, say, abortion, have been shaky. Yet
at the same time, you prefer to vote for a Barack Obama, a John Kerry, or
a Hillary Clinton over your own party’s candidate as long as the latter
urges for a more humble foreign policy. That is, “single issue” voting is
bad as long as it is any issue other than the single issue of foreign
policy upon which you always cast your vote.
You talk tirelessly of individual responsibility even as you affirm
political determinism when it comes to black Americans and Middle
Eastern Muslims. All of the ills that plague black Americans you chalk up
to the poisonous policies of the Democratic Party while all of the
problems of which the Muslim world is ridden you attribute to its lack
of “democracy.”
Even though Hispanics voted for Barack Obama by over 70 percent in
November, and blacks voted for him by over 90 percent, you insist that
the only reason for this is that Republicans have failed to “reach out”
to these groups. If only their members knew what the Republican Party
could do for them (more political determinism), you imply, they would
flock to the GOP, for blacks, and particularly Hispanics, are “natural
conservatives.”
You make claims regarding the “natural conservatism” of Hispanics and
Hispanic immigrants that you would never think to make about
Muslimseven though, by many measures, Muslims are far more
“conservative” than Hispanics and white Americans alike.
You believe that National Review remains the premiere conservative
publication, with The Weekly Standard not far behind.
You believe that Fox News is a conservative network and that talk radio
is dominated by conservative hosts.
If one or more of the foregoing descriptions apply to you, then you just
might be a neoconservative.
http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/jack-kerwick/item/what-s-a-neocon
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