| Totally ignorant, as I said. For one thing, the supposed neocon flagship publication (which is not even accurate), The Weekly Standard, supported McCain, not Bush, during the last presidential election. For another, several prominent neocons supported Bill Clinton in the '90s. A number of supposed neocons are still social democrats in domestic policy, from among the Schachtmanites, and most neocons support the welfare state to a greater or lesser degree. Neocons sometimes talk about a benign imperialism, but what they mean is the use of US power to support the spread of democracy. None of them supports a one- party state. The neocons are mostly academics and intellectuals who were Democrats in the '70s, but increasingly disillusioned with McGovernism, and who generally supported Reagan in the '80s. Some became more conservative as time went on, some remained more moderate in their views, but it was never a movement in the sense that you are describing, nor is your characterization of goals accurate....... |
