Plain Ol'; Again, you haven't a clue about what you are talking about. A part and parcel of the definition of a true "Neo-Conservative" was that without exception, all were former far left (usually Socialist) Democrats; most were of Jewish ancestry; and many had swapped political parties to become Republican.
Below are a few articles that note and document what I am talking about. It becomes more and more difficult in making any attempt to discuss issues with you. You're genuinely seem to be ill informed, and so biased, hate filled; anti-Semitic; and lack the maturity as well as the background to form rational thoughtful opinion. You also seem to have abandoned all logic. I don't know what has happened to you; the last six or eight months it's like you have regressed into an immature "Social Justice Warrior" without life experiences or critical, cognitive thinking skills. It's become tedious..... http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/03/the-neocons-are-becoming-democrats-again-war-party-guys-hate-trump-will-throw-support-to-hillary/ http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/are-neocons-going-home-to-the-democratic-party/ http://www.cfr.org/united-states/think-again-neocons/p7592 Even your favorite "Cut & Paste" reference cite, Wikipedia defines NeoCons as former Democrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism History[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=2> ] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HenryJackson.jpg> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HenryJackson.jpg> Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._%22Scoop%22_Jackson>, inspiration for neoconservative foreign policy during the 1970s. Through the 1950s and early 1960s, the future neoconservatives had endorsed the American Civil Rights Movement <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement>, racial integration <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration>, and Martin Luther King, Jr <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr>.[24] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-24> From the 1950s to the 1960s, there was general endorsement among liberals for military action to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam.[25] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-25> Neoconservatism was initiated by the repudiation of the New Deal coalition <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_coalition> by the American New Left <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left>: Black Power <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power>, which accused Northern Jews of hypocrisy on integration and supported Israel in the Six-Day War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War>; "anti-anticommunism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism>", and which during the late 1960s included substantial endorsement of Marxist–Leninist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism> politics; and the "new politics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Politics_(disambiguation)>" of the New left <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_left>, which Norman Podheretz said was too close to the counterculture and too alienated from the majority of the population. Many were particularly alarmed by what they claimed were anti-semitic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-american_-_jewish_relations> sentiments from Black Power advocates.[26] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-26> Irving Kristol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol> edited the journal *The Public Interest <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_Interest>* (1965–2005), featuring economists and political scientists, which emphasized ways that government planning in the liberal state had produced unintended harmful consequences.[27] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-27> Many early Neoconservative political figures were disillusioned Democratic politicians and intellectuals, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan>, who served in the Nixon Administration, and Jeane Kirkpatrick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick>, who served as President Ronald Reagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>'s UN Ambassador. A substantial number of neoconservatives were originally moderate socialists associated with the right-wing of the Socialist Party of America (SP), and its successor, Social Democrats, USA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democrats,_USA> (SDUSA). Max Shachtman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman>, a former Trotskyist theorist who developed a strong antipathy towards the New Left, had numerous devotees among SDUSA with strong links to George Meany <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meany>'s AFL-CIO. Following Shachtman and Meany, this faction led the SP to oppose an immediate withdrawal from the Vietnam War, and oppose George McGovern in the Democratic primary race (and to some extent, the general election). They also chose to cease their own party-building and concentrated on working within the Democratic Party, eventually influencing it through the Democratic Leadership Council <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council>.[28] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-28> Thus the Socialist Party ceased to be in 1972 and SDUSA emerged (Most of the left-wing of the party, led by Michael Harrington, immediately abandoned SDUSA).[29] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-29>[30] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-30> SDUSA leaders associated with neoconservatism include Carl Gershman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman>, Penn Kemble <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Kemble>, Joshua Muravchik <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik>, and Bayard Rustin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin>.[31] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-31>[32] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-32>[33] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-33>[34] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-34> Norman Podhoretz's magazine *Commentary <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_(magazine)>* of the American Jewish Committee <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee>, originally a journal of liberalism, became a major publication for neoconservatives during the 1970s. *Commentary* published an article by Jeane Kirkpatrick, an early and prototypical neoconservative, albeit not a New Yorker. New York Intellectuals[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=3> ] Many neoconservatives had been Jewish intellectuals in New York City <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Intellectuals> during the 1930s. They were on the political left but strongly opposed Stalinism; some were Trotskyists. During the Cold War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War> they continued to oppose Stalinism and to endorse democracy. The great majority became liberal Democrats.[35] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-35>[36] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-36> Rejecting the American New Left and McGovern's New Politics[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=4> ] As the policies of the New Left <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left> made the Democrats <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)> increasingly leftist, these intellectuals became disillusioned with President Lyndon B. Johnson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson>'s Great Society <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society> domestic programs. The influential 1970 bestseller *The Real Majority <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Majority>* by Ben Wattenberg <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wattenberg> expressed that the "real majority" of the electorate endorsed economic liberalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_interventionism> but also social conservatism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism>, and warned Democrats it could be disastrous to adopt liberal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_liberalism> positions on certain social and crime issues.[37] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-mason-37> The neoconservatives rejected the counterculture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s> New Left <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left>, and what they considered anti-Americanism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism> in the non-interventionism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-interventionism> of the activism against the Vietnam War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War>. After the anti-war faction took control of the party during 1972 and nominated George McGovern <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern>, the Democrats among them endorsed Washington Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson>instead for his unsuccessful 1972 and 1976 campaigns for president. Among those who worked for Jackson were future neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz>, Doug Feith <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Feith>, andRichard Perle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle>.[38] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-38> During the late 1970s, neoconservatives tended to endorse Ronald Reagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>, the Republican who promised to confront Soviet expansionism. Neocons organized in the American Enterprise Institute <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute> and the Heritage Foundation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation> to counter the liberal establishment.[39] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-39> In another (2004) article, Michael Lind <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lind> also wrote [40] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-lind-40> Neoconservatism ... originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' [After the end of the Cold War] ... many 'paleoliberals' drifted back to the Democratic center ... Today's neocons are a shrunken remnant of the original broad neocon coalition. Nevertheless, the origins of their ideology on the left are still apparent. The fact that most of the younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal) heirs of older ex-leftists. Leo Strauss and his students[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=5> ] Neoconservatism draws on several intellectual traditions. The students of political science Professor Leo Strauss <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss> (1899–1973) comprised one major group. Eugene Sheppard notes that, "Much scholarship tends to understand Strauss as an inspirational founder of American neoconservatism."[41] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-41> Strauss was a refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at the New School for Social Research in New York (1939–49) and the University of Chicago (1949–1958).[42] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-42> Strauss asserted that "the crisis of the West consists in the West's having become uncertain of its purpose." His solution was a restoration of the vital ideas and faith that in the past had sustained the moral purpose of the West. Classical Greek political philosophy and the Judeo-Christian heritage are the essentials of the Great Tradition in Strauss's work.[43] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-43> Strauss emphasized the spirit of the Greek classics, and West (1991) argues that for Strauss the American "Founding Fathers" were correct in their understanding of the classics in their principles of justice. For Strauss, political community is defined by convictions about justice and happiness rather than by sovereignty and force. He repudiated the philosophy of John Locke <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke> as a bridge to 20th-century historicism and nihilism, and defended liberal democracy as closer to the spirit of the classics than other modern regimes.[44] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-44> For Strauss, the American awareness of ineradicable evil in human nature, and hence the need for morality, was a beneficial outgrowth of the premodern Western tradition.[45] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-45> O'Neill (2009) notes that Strauss wrote little about American topics but his students wrote a great deal, and that Strauss's influence caused his students to reject historicism and positivism. Instead they promoted a so-called Aristotelian perspective on America that produced a qualified defense of its liberal constitutionalism.[46] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-46> Strauss influenced *Weekly Standard* editor William Kristol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol>, editor John Podhoretz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podhoretz>, and military strategist Paul Wolfowitz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz>.[47] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-47>[48] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-48> Jeane Kirkpatrick[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=6> ] Main article: Jeane Kirkpatrick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Od_jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait_1-255x301.jpg> Jeane Kirkpatrick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick> A theory of neoconservative foreign policy during the final years of the Cold War was articulated by Jeane Kirkpatrick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick>, in "Dictatorships and Double Standards <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorships_and_Double_Standards>,"[49] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-49> published in *Commentary Magazine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_Magazine>* during November 1979. Kirkpatrick criticized the foreign policy of Jimmy Carter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter>, which endorsed detente <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detente> with the USSR. She later served the Reagan Administration as Ambassador to the United Nations.[50] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-50> Skepticism towards democracy promotion[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=7> ] In "Dictatorships and Double Standards," Kirkpatrick distinguished between authoritarian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism> regimes and the totalitarian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism> regimes such as the Soviet Union; she suggested that in some countries democracy was not tenable and the U.S. had a choice between endorsing authoritarian governments, which might evolve into democracies, or Marxist–Leninist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism> regimes, which she argued had never been ended once they achieved totalitarian control. In such tragic circumstances, she argued that allying with authoritarian governments might be prudent. Kirkpatrick argued that by demanding rapid liberalization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalization> in traditionally autocratic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocracy> countries, the Carter administration had delivered those countries to Marxist-Leninists that were even more repressive. She further accused the Carter administration of a "double standard," of never having applied its rhetoric on the necessity of liberalization to communist governments <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state>. The essay compares traditional autocracies and Communist regimes: [Traditional autocrats] do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope ... [Revolutionary Communist regimes] claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands ... Kirkpatrick concluded that while the United States should encourage liberalization and democracy in autocratic countries, it should not do so when the government risks violent overthrow, and should expect gradual change rather than immediate transformation.[51] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-nprkirkpatrick-51> She wrote: "No idea holds greater sway in the mind of educated Americans than the belief that it is possible to democratize <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy> governments, anytime and anywhere, under any circumstances... Decades, if not centuries, are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom>. ... The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American policymakers."[52] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-econkirkpatrick-52> 1990s[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neoconservatism&action=edit§ion=8> ] During the 1990s, neoconservatives were once again opposed to the foreign policy establishment, both during the Republican Administration of President George H. W. Bush <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush> and that of his Democratic successor, President William Clinton <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton>. Many critics charged that the neoconservatives lost their influence as a result of the end of the USSR. [53] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-53> After the decision of George H. W. Bush to leave Saddam Hussein <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein> in power after the first Iraq War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War> during 1991, many neoconservatives considered this policy, and the decision not to endorse indigenous dissident groups such as the Kurds <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds> and Shiites <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiites> in their 1991-1992 resistance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq> to Hussein, as a betrayal of democratic principles.[54] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-http:.2F.2Fwww.tomdispatch.com.2Fpost.2F174894-54> [55] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-Tucker2009-55> [56] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-Hirsh2004-56> [57] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-Wing2012-57> [58] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-Podhoretz2006-58> Ironically, some of those same targets of criticism would later become fierce advocates of neoconservative policies. During 1992, referring to the first Iraq War <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War>, then United States Secretary of Defense <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense> and future Vice President <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States> Richard Cheney <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney> said: I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.... And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam [Hussein] worth? And the answer is not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.[59] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-59> Within a few years of the Gulf War in Iraq <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq>, many neoconservatives were endorsing the ouster of Saddam Hussein. On 19 February 1998, an open letter to President Clinton was published, signed by dozens of pundits, many identified with neoconservatism and, later, related groups such as the PNAC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century>, urging decisive action to remove Saddam from power.[60] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-60> Neoconservatives were also members of the so-called "blue team <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Team_(U.S._politics)>", which argued for a confrontational policy toward the People's Republic of China <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China> and strong military and diplomatic endorsement for the Republic of China <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China> (also known as Formosa or Taiwan). During the late 1990s, Irving Kristol and other writers in neoconservative magazines began touting anti-Darwinist views, as an endorsement of intelligent design <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design>. Since these neoconservatives were largely of secular origin, a few commentators have speculated that this – along with endorsement of religion generally – may have been a case of a "noble lie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie>", intended to protect public morality, or even tactical politics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_politics>, to attract religious endorsers.[61] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-61> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:25 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > By definition, a NeoCon is in fact a Democrat, or a former Democrat. > --- > hogwash. > The term "neoconservative" refers to those who made the ideological > journey from the anti-Stalinist Left > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Stalinist_Left> to the camp of American > conservatism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_conservatism>.[4] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-4> Neoconservatives > typically advocate the promotion of democracy > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy> and promotion of American national > interest <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_interest> ininternational > affairs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations>, > including by means of military force, and are known for espousing disdain > for communism and for political radicalism > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism>.[5] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-britannica-5>[6] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#cite_note-merriam-webster-6> > > > yep ... sounds a like a warmongering republican zionist xian to me. > > On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 8:32:39 AM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >> >> LOL! >> >> Michael, clearly Pierre Guerlain doesn't even know what a "NeoCon" even >> is! By definition, a NeoCon is in fact a Democrat, or a former Democrat. >> >> I didn't get very far in this article....What with the premise that >> Clinton will even be the Democratic Nominee (which I am of the belief is >> highly unlikely); and that Hil Clinton could beat Trump are both far >> fetched notions. >> >> I do in a sense agree with Guerlain's premise though. Clinton is a >> (Choose your own term, they're all accurate!) >> "Fatalist/Globalist/Federalist" (or as former Speaker Gingrich terms >> them: "Pseudo-Intellectual Georgetown Bar Crowd") but in general, Clinton >> is a elitist, establishment DC Powerbroker who supports a strong large >> "Federal/Central" governnment; and will engage our military at the drop of >> a dime in order to support the alleged "Industrial-Military Complex". >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:03 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> 27 May 2016 >>> >>> *Hillary Clinton: The Neocon in Democrat's Clothing *By Pierre Guerlain >>> >>> The next president of the United States will almost certainly be a >>> Republican. No, not the one everyone in the media rejects, the buffoon >>> named Donald Trump who stands no chance of shaking the hands of world >>> leaders. Chances are, the next Republican president will be a woman, and >>> yes, her name will be Hillary Clinton. >>> >>> No kidding, if this comes to pass, history will be made: the first woman >>> president and among the first Republican neocons in Democratic garb. >>> Everyone knows the expression "a wolf in sheep's clothing." Now, it seems >>> the United States will invent the macho Republican in feminist, Democratic >>> clothing. >>> >>> Many authors have quoted a sentence by Bill Clinton >>> <http://www.salon.com/2011/06/21/lind_obama_republican/>: >>> >>> We're all Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan >>> Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and free trade and the bond >>> market. Isn't that great? >>> >>> Eisenhower Republicans were, by today's standards, quite moderate. The >>> quote refers to the 1990s, and already Bill Clinton had triangulated his >>> presidency to Republican-hood. He had demolished Aid to Families With >>> Dependent Children and bought into the bash-the-poor rhetoric of the right >>> wing. He had passed a crime bill that targeted people of color; he had >>> destroyed FDR's legacy, notably by abolishing the Glass-Steagall Act. And >>> he was so "tough on crime" that during the 1992 presidential campaign >>> season, he had gone back to his home state of Arkansas to witness the >>> execution of Ricky Ray Rector, who was "mentally deficient." Bill Clinton >>> might not have inhaled marijuana, but he certainly had inhaled the poison >>> of right-wing ideas. >>> >>> As we all know, Hillary Clinton openly supported many of Bill Clinton's >>> political measures. She used the terrible expression "superpredators," >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALXulk0T8cg> supported the crime bill >>> and made a hash of health insurance reform >>> <http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/24/the-new-hillary/>. Liza >>> Featherstone talks about Hillary Clinton's >>> <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35006-hillary-clinton-s-faux-feminism> >>> faux >>> <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35006-hillary-clinton-s-faux-feminism> >>> feminism >>> <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35006-hillary-clinton-s-faux-feminism>, >>> and she links her critique to class themes, which is as it should be. >>> Feminists cannot be elite feminists or 1% feminists if they want to defend >>> the rights of all women. >>> >>> For more original Truthout election coverage, check out our election >>> section, "Beyond the Sound Bites: Election 2016." >>> <http://www.truth-out.org/election-2016> >>> >>> Hillary Clinton's track record on issues of poverty, racial justice and >>> justice for women is appalling. As a former member of the board of Walmart, >>> she sided with the rich and powerful >>> <http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34913-with-hillary-clinton-corporate-america-defines-the-limits-of-acceptable-opinion>, >>> which she also does when she gives speeches for Wall Street. The really >>> important question is how someone who has constantly sided with the rich >>> can campaign as a progressive, as a friend of people of color and even as a >>> feminist? Michelle Alexander exposed the hypocrisy of the situation in >>> arguing that " Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote >>> <http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/> >>> ." >>> >>> On foreign policy issues, Hillary Clinton is not even an Eisenhower >>> Republican, but a war hawk whose philosophy and shortsightedness is >>> evidenced by the flippant way in which she advocated for war in Libya and >>> the way in which she celebrated. "We came, we saw, he died," she said >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y> and laughed loudly. This >>> cruel statement does not take into account the mess and mayhem left behind >>> after the intervention, something President Obama calls a " shit show >>> <http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/>" >>> and his worst mistake. But it is the companion piece to her major fellow >>> elite "feminist" Madeleine Albright declaring >>> <http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/> >>> that killing half a million Iraqis is worth it. >>> >>> Hillary Clinton, like true neoliberals in the GOP, supported the North >>> American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), so as Bill had said she supported >>> the bond market and free trade. Now, she claims she did not, but, of >>> course, she is lying. Her lies also have to do with Wall Street (she has >>> not released the text of her speeches), support for people of color and her >>> feminism. >>> >>> The challenge by Bernie Sanders, who is still around and has no >>> intention of dropping out of the primaries, made Clinton change her tune, >>> but, of course, she is ready to say anything to be elected. Now that she is >>> facing a buffoon who makes racist, sexist, dishonest remarks all the time, >>> she can play a series of cards that do not correspond to who she really is: >>> the progressive card, the antiracist card, the feminist card, the >>> "consistent" card, the geopolitical card. The campaign circus or electoral >>> extravaganza can now become man vs. woman, or rather, racist white man vs. >>> "friend of minorities" woman. Yet, if there is little doubt that Donald >>> Trump is a vile demagogue who sometimes hits upon an issue of concern to >>> ordinary people, the identity of the other candidate is all phony. >>> >>> Feminism cannot be only about the equality of CEO compensations. >>> Equality in CEO compensations in general should exist at a much-reduced >>> level. In his book *Listen, Liberal* >>> <http://us.macmillan.com/listenliberal/thomasfrank>, Thomas Frank tells >>> the story of a Clinton convention meeting he attended and what he witnessed >>> was Hillary Clinton as "Ms. Walmart," pretending she cares about all women. >>> Frank, who is genuinely worried about rising inequality in the United >>> States and racial justice, suggests that *elite feminism* is worried >>> about the glass ceiling for CEOs, but does not even worry about >>> working-class women who have "no floors" under them. Hillary Clinton is a >>> 1% millionaire who now talks the progressive talk, but never really walked >>> the progressive walk. >>> >>> It would indeed be a symbolic change if the US elected a woman >>> president, but for the symbol not to be empty, something more is needed. If >>> a woman president does not improve the lot of the majority of women, then >>> what is the good of a symbol? >>> >>> Hillary Clinton is actually to the right of President Dwight D. >>> Eisenhower -- "Ike." He refused to use the atom bomb in Asia, showing more >>> geopolitical prudence than Hillary "we came and he died" Clinton. He also >>> wanted to preserve the FDR advances that the Clintons have done so much to >>> cancel or erase. >>> >>> In a 1954 letter to his brother, Eisenhower wrote >>> <http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/not-like-ike/?_r=0>: >>> "Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, >>> unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you >>> would not hear from that party again in our political history." >>> >>> Unfortunately, Ike was not right. Later, the Republicans -- starting >>> with Hillary Clinton's youth idol Barry Goldwater -- and the Democrats >>> calling themselves "New Democrats" vied with each other to dismantle the >>> New Deal and the Great Society programs that Democrats had set up. Noam >>> Chomsky argues >>> <http://www.salon.com/2015/09/23/noam_chomsky_right_wing_extremism_from_trump_may_be_comic_relief_but_its_not_that_different_from_the_mainstream/> >>> that the GOP is not a political party any longer, but a radical insurgency, >>> for it has gone off the political cliff. The Democrats have become the Old >>> Republicans and Hillary Clinton is more neocon than traditional >>> conservative of the Eisenhower type. >>> >>> So Hillary Clinton, the Republican, is poised to win in November, but >>> her Republicanism is closer to George W. Bush's and even more conservative >>> than Ronald Reagan's -- except on the societal issues that have now reached >>> a kind of quasi-consensus like same-sex marriage. She is a pro-business, >>> Koch-compatible lover of Wall Street who uses feminism like some >>> pinkwashers or greenwashers use progressive agendas to sell regressive >>> policies. Author Diana Johnstone calls her the "Queen of Chaos >>> <https://www.akpress.org/queen-of-chaos.html>." Clinton is the queen of >>> deception, faux feminism and faux progressivism, whose election will be >>> made easier by her loutish, vulgar, sexist loudmouth of an opponent. >>> >>> In his book *The Deep State*, Mike Lofgren quotes >>> <http://www.salon.com/2016/01/05/controlled_by_shadow_government_mike_lofgren_reveals_how_top_u_s_officials_are_at_the_mercy_of_the_deep_state/> >>> H.L. Mencken <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken>, who gave >>> away what explains the success of the political circus: "The whole aim of >>> practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to >>> be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all >>> of them imaginary." >>> >>> George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives were past masters >>> at this creation of hobgoblins, but now Hillary Clinton, the opportunist, >>> can outdo them and out-Republicanize them. I think Ike would not like her; >>> she might now be even more reactionary than Goldwater. Indeed, Charles >>> Koch >>> <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/24/charles-koch-says-he-could-possibly-support-hillary-clinton/> >>> (whose hatred of progressivism is well documented by Jane Meyer in her >>> book, *Dark Money* >>> <http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6694/t/17304/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=661&t=&store_item_KEY=3198>) >>> expressed some admiration for Bill and Hillary Clinton and said he could >>> vote for Hillary this time around. >>> >>> The GOP is dying, but a reactionary Republican in faux progressive >>> clothing, loved by the wolves of Wall Street and the wolves of the >>> Kochtopus >>> <https://prezi.com/5xzibopikc3a/ifgs-kochtopus-mapping-the-influence-of-koch-cash/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy>, >>> will most probably win. >>> >>> >>> http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36201-hillary-clinton-the-neocon-in-democrat-s-clothing >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>> >>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >>> * It's active and moderated. 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