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Calling them neocons ignores the basis of their political beliefs: Statism. The American Democrats are essentially Statists who will - at any cost - support the
by ihsw 13y ago
Calling them neocons ignores the basis of their political beliefs: Statism. The American Democrats are essentially Statists who will - at any cost - support the advancement of the state, specifically the state's control over every aspect of life. Their mantra is "What you can control cannot hurt you."
Personally I also equate American Republicans with fascists, whom spout rhetoric about patriotism and some measure of ethnocentrism.
- cpursley 13y agoYes - Statism is a better term! I agree.
- wavefunction 13y agoNeocons and Neoliberals (which is what I would characterize the "liberal" elite in DC) are pretty similar in most ways. They simply differ on whether it is military force or economic "liberalization" that should be used to promote "freedom and democracy."
- krenoten 13y agoAny ism is reductionist, always with some loss of information. Sometimes they're beneficial, every thought we have is the result of extremely downsampled data. But without being mindful that simplifications are at play they can be much more dangerous. It is hard or impossible to know which simplifications are actually happening in many cases, because the blanket is the only handle that many data have been tagged with - not the sum of their intricacies.
- dllthomas 13y agoThose with power have statist tendencies. This is "just" a matter of "power corrupts" - those out of power on the left and the right are both substantially more leery of government control. Of course, that we can explain it is not to say that this corruption is something we should accept.