By the way, Joan, I am also an American, a native of Washington, an Annapolitan, a husband, a father, middle- aged, obese, balding, educated, ethnically diverse, a theist, doctrinally somewhat "liberal", from a lower middle class background, a Republican: all of these things are factual. Although they may be "labels", they have a certain utility, and there is no deep psychological reason for mentioning them. I chose "Neocon" as a moniker because I was joining news discussion threads, and I wanted to be somewhat specific in indicating the "faction" I most closely identified with: "Republican" or "conservative" was too broad. I am not part of "group think": neoconservatives are too diverse a group, and I fight with other neoconservatives too much, for that to be so.
But I am not in a vacuum, either, especially in politics, where in order to be effective at all, one has to make coalitions and alliances...... |
