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.. Today in America, the neoconservative political movement represents a
"Fifth Column" for the forces of collectivism. Its intellectuals and
activists promote themselves as conservatives who oppose the liberals, but
their political philosophy has nothing to do with what is known as American
conservatism, which has always stood for a limited constitutional government
and free enterprise. These values are anathema to today's "neoconservatives"
in the nation's political, literary and scholarly circles.
The late Irving Kristol, editor of The Public Interest, and Norman Podhoretz,
editor of Commentary, were the founders of the neoconservative
<
http://bit.ly/1IfSetU> movement in the late 1960s. In their youth during the
1930s and 1940s, they were followers of the communist <
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Leon Trotsky <
http://bit.ly/1OZWm5g>. Having bought into the Bolshevik
<
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that needed to be spread to the West. While they and their followers
subsequently modified the Marxist <
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ideology in favor of a more gradualist methodology, they always remained
adamant supporters of collectivism <
http://bit.ly/1FP9QLm> for America. Are
they outright socialists? No, but their policy proposals have always been in
favor of massive government welfarism domestically and an aggressive
militaristic foreign policy that seeks what is termed "benevolent global
hegemony <
http://bit.ly/1bxpYEF>," in which the U.S. military is to be used
preemptively to spread democracy <
http://bit.ly/1EWW4FJ> throughout the world.
The paradigm that neoconservatives have given their lives to is built upon a
centralized mega-state running American society from Washington and also, as
much as possible, the rest of the world.
In Irving Kristol's eyes, the laissez-faire vision of the Founders was a
"doctrinaire fantasy." Its ideals "make it inadequate... for a political
community," he wrote in 1977. In other words, to adhere today to what
Jefferson and Madison advocated is anachronistic foolishness. According to
Kristol and his fellow neoconservatives, such a view must be phased out of our
collective conscience.1
Kristol died in 2009, but his worldview dominates all of today's younger
neoconservatives. He believed that capitalism <
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individual rights are dangerous institutions. They must be constantly modified
by a powerful state that redistributes wealth whenever necessary to mold
market enterprises into an appropriately egalitarian social structure. In the
neoconservative mind, freedom, while desirable, is not a primary political
value. Machiavelli <
http://bit.ly/1dMNLSO> had the better idea; expediency is
the best way to rule. People need to be manipulatively led by statist elites -
via open dialogue and democracy if possible, but by deception, coercion and
expediency when necessary.2
The neoconservatives, thus, represent tyranny's Fifth Column in America. They
are deceiving the people into believing that they are genuine conservatives
<
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call themselves what they know the people want to hear. These ersatz
conservatives have now grown to dominate Washington's think tanks, Wall
Street's brokerages and banks, and many major publications and universities.
They are highly influential writers, scholars, pundits, publishers, institute
heads, bankers and corporate moguls.
The Serpents
What follows are eight of the more influential neoconservatives in America,
past and present. These are not friends of freedom, but enemies. They need to
be recognized for who they are, traitors to what America was meant to be. ..
OS: See the list of the serpents here <
http://bit.ly/1QlILlQ>
> <
http://www.westernjournalism.com/americas-decline-pathology-socialism/>
>
> .. It's no secret that America is in a serious decline from its prior status
> financially and politically as the leading world power. Some might ask: why
> is that the case, and when did this 'decline' begin? The answers to these
> questions help us to clearly identify the 'parasite' and the pathology of
> the disease that is currently afflicting America. We began this decline in
> earnest when socialists from the 'former' communist Russia flocked into
> America by the tens of thousands after the Soviet Union fell. ..