tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post6582146912854314540..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Neocons and Neoliberals: Two Masks, One FaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-62207721661344642232008-11-13T03:24:00.000-08:002008-11-13T03:24:00.000-08:00As someone who opposes empire it is bizarre that y...As someone who opposes empire it is bizarre that you emulate Federalist icon George Washington. Federalism was the precursor to the American empire. Why model yourself on its figurehead?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03543838732209508510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-72743094449383975972008-11-11T11:16:00.000-08:002008-11-11T11:16:00.000-08:00Thank you for this article! As an author you alway...Thank you for this article! As an author you always seem to be one step ahead of me in articles I've been planning to write! I too have been asserting [in comments <A HREF="http://www.opednews.com/" REL="nofollow">mostly at OpedNews</A>] that the economic right political 'values' found in NeoLibs, [short for both NeoLibertarians and Neoliberals] NeoCons, and TheoCons are predominantly the same for months now ever since these corporate bailouts started. This author has a firm grasp on political ideologies as evidenced in his other articles correctly identifying the now <A HREF="http://lostvegas.us/LessThanHuman/?p=75" REL="nofollow">$2 trillion in US corporate bailouts</A> as <A HREF="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/fascist-economics-state-pays-for.html" REL="nofollow">the economic policy of Fascism</A>.<BR/><BR/>The TheoCons-NeoCons-NeoLibs have taken the country so far to the economic right and up in to an authoritarian level since 2000 that most all in the democratic party, excluding a few like Kucinich and Sanders, have moved from a 'centrist' political ideology to an authoritarian right and moderate conservative political ideology. Like Anna here more fully displays, the overwhelming majority of Americans just do no have a realistic grasp on global political ideologies, much less their own personal political values. Political party indoctrination and mud slinging has the population wrongly convinced democratic politicians are for the most part 'liberals' when they're economic right NeoLiberals and moderate conservatives while republicans calling themselves 'conservative' are instead radically authoritarian and economic right TheoCons and NeoCons. <BR/><BR/>When Americans don't understand their own political values, much less those of the candidate they vote for, they will continue to make the wrong choices. This would seem to be exactly what the '1' party corporatist system wants so Americans will only continue making the wrong choices from choosing between 'moderate conservative' Democrats like Obama-Biden, and NeoCon/TheoCon republicans like McCain-Palin. <BR/><BR/>Who better to assert this 1 party economic right NeoLiberal reality than one of the most renown liberal authors and intellectuals than Chomsky in his recent article the <A HREF="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/10-4" REL="nofollow"> Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed</A>. Chomsky cites America as a <B><I>"one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats" while putting the blame on this economic crisis where it belongs on the very people who created it, America's NeoLiberals.</I></B> <BR/><BR/>Anna, if you need more proof I suggest you take a trip to the non partisan web site created by a group of doctorate degreed political ideology professors, political experts and sociologists called <A HREF="http://www.politicalcompass.org" REL="nofollow"> Political Compass</A>. I guarantee you these experts are far more learned than you are about political ideologies and political values not just in the US, but around the globe. It will surely shock you to learn based on speeches, public statements and most crucially voting records that <A HREF="http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008" REL="nofollow"> Obama is firmly in the authoritarian right quadrant as a moderate conservative.</A> <BR/><BR/>There you'll see their reasons for this based on his voting record and speeches briefly cited in <B><I>"While Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader are depicted on the extreme left in an American context, they would simply be mainstream social democrats within the wider political landscape of Europe. Similarly, Obama is popularly perceived as a leftist in the United States while elsewhere in the west his record is that of a moderate conservative. For example, in the case of the death penalty he is not an uncompromising abolitionist, while mainstream conservatives in all other western democracies are deeply opposed to capital punishment. The Democratic party's presidential candidate also reneged on his commitment to oppose the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He sided with the ultra conservative bloc in the Supreme Court against the Washington DC handgun ban and for capital punishment in child rape cases. He supports President Bush's faith-based initiatives and is reported in Fortune to have said that NAFTA isn't so bad."</I></B><BR/><BR/>A way to realistically determine if the candidate you vote for actually represents your own political values is to take the <A HREF="http://www.politicalcompass.org/test" REL="nofollow">political values test found at political compass here</A> and afterward learn about the inadequacies inherent in the limited age-old traditional left-right economic view of political ideologies. Then you Anna, along with a host of others, may actually start voting in support of candidates that factually represent your own political values. Or you may find you really aren't this liberal you think you are after all. Regardless, only by learning more about ones' own political values and those of the candidates Americans support will they get the political leaders, type of leadership, and government they actually want....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-37408565908408708922008-11-10T23:32:00.000-08:002008-11-10T23:32:00.000-08:00...why are you people buying into this article? I......why are you people buying into this article? It does nothing but repeat itself over and over and over saying the same thing over and over and over about how they're the same party but there is NOT ONE example of how. <BR/><BR/>I'm sorry, but some of us still use the rules of objective opinion, we require evidence, not hyperbole. You would do well to do the same, otherwise you're just what they want, dumb, uneducated sheeple that can be manipulated with any invented rumor they want.<BR/><BR/>Like the one where Obama is a communist muslim that eats babies.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08554331332586784863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-39762511510867043742008-11-10T12:08:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:08:00.000-08:00Thanks for writing this piece.I agree 100% that th...Thanks for writing this piece.<BR/>I agree 100% that the Republicrats represent 2 faces of the same agenda. I wonder, though, how do we effectively communicate this to people, in such a way that they believe it enough to get behind a legitimate third party? Also, who are the right people that we should spend time convincing? How do we target powerful, influential people and convince them that this Republicratic system needs a counterpointing voice? It is a conundrum.Lies and Propagandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06838542417590989596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-55752446561018532492008-11-10T10:42:00.000-08:002008-11-10T10:42:00.000-08:00Mike... read up:The "Third Way"In truth, it's just...Mike... read up:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way_(centrism)" REL="nofollow">The "Third Way"</A><BR/><BR/>In truth, it's just a merger of right/left socialism.<BR/><BR/>Translation: The socialists and the corporo-fasciscts hold hands together and say."Kumbaya."RudiZinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419208662453737806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-15865496110027851722008-11-10T10:31:00.000-08:002008-11-10T10:31:00.000-08:00You are confusing the issue. The work neoliberal ...You are confusing the issue. The work neoliberal applies to an economic philosophy which is also sometimes called the Chicago School or the Washington Consensus. It is related to what we often call globalization, and it has to to with "liberalization" of economies, in other words privatization of publicly held industries etc. Liberal in the American political sense it totally unrelated to neoliberal. Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that espouses vanguardism and militant foreign policy. They are related in that their goals dove tail, kind of like apples and oranges are similar in that they are both edible.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04098597534113813012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-16750724266586265622008-11-10T09:59:00.000-08:002008-11-10T09:59:00.000-08:00Indeed. One Party. The Corporate party. GOP-DEM ar...Indeed. One Party. The Corporate party. GOP-DEM are little different than Sunni and Shia! <BR/><BR/>GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!sailtothailandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344607994887141130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-17516612493411925242008-11-10T08:51:00.000-08:002008-11-10T08:51:00.000-08:00"The left wants a dictatorship of the poor, and th..."The left wants a dictatorship of the poor, and the right wants a dictatorship of the rich. Both want a dictatorship." -Ayn RandA. Magnus Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943012674895306913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-16370177065836713132008-11-10T08:50:00.000-08:002008-11-10T08:50:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.A. Magnus Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943012674895306913noreply@blogger.com