| You are kind of dumb. Bill Kristol has never claimed to be a neocon, but cannot elude the designation because of his father. Those first designated neocons, and many of the younger one's who followed, were on the Left, for longer or shorter as the case may be. Most started out as Norman Thomas socialists or New Deal Democrats, but there have always been variations. There are even some who picked up the appellation who are, in some sense, still on the Left, namely the Social Democrats, who were Schachtmanites, and took over that splinter party in the '80s. They voted to support Reagan's candidacy, on foreign policy grounds, leading to the creation, by Michael Harrington, of the Democratic Socialist Party, for those disaffected by the take-over. The Social Democrats remain a European style social democrat organization with respect to the welfare state. I myself worked in a local office of the McGovern campaign, and considered myself to be a syndicalist, philosophically. I came from a liberal Democratic background. Admittedly, I was moving Right by the end of college, but was still more a Cold War liberal than an out and out conservative for at least part of the '80s......... |
