i have a suggestion. stop calling the neo-cons neo-cons, and call them what they are creating. Facists.
Starting back in the 1920's, socialists and communists realized they had no chance of making an impact in America. But they did realize they could take advantage of low level elections, such as school boards, city councils, etc., and over time they could gain influence. They also found other "outsider" groups that were being marginalized, and reached accords with these groups, and they all became "democrats". These other groups are those that push for alternative lifestyles, environmentalists, etc. These people made up a very very small number but focused on the lowest level of politics, where NO BODY shows up to vote. In those elections, sometimes where only 1000 people vote, if they have 100 people out of that 1000 participating, they completely changed elections that would have been very close otherwise. By the 60's, they'd begun to reach critical mass within the Democratic party, as well as they'd gotten so deep into our education system, that the ideals America was created on were not necessarily what was taught to the kids of that day.
Eventually, their people had enough power that they removed traditional democrats from power within the party, and today, just about anyone can see that the leadership of the DP are extreme socialists, and supporters of ONLY fringe groups. Does no one find that odd? Same with the ACLU, do they ever support a non-fringe cause? I can't think of the last time the ACLU stood up for a traditional viewpoint in this country.
And if you don't think this is an accurate account of the DP, ask why Zell Miller, a LIFETIME Democrat, would speak about taking back his party at the RNC!! He didn't say he was a Republican, he asked his fellow Democrats, those who supported the OLD DP and not the socialist version of today, to vote Repub. so the power of the socialists could be weakened. He was calling on those like himself to abandon the DP aggressively enough to kill the power of those in power, so traditional Dems could get back in control of the party.
Now, in the RP, it's evident Facists have taken the same steps. They packaged themselves in Traditional Conservative speak, but haven't voted consistently that way. They have garnered incredible support from corporations, and have pretty obviously been allowing changes in our laws that allow large conglomerate corporations, foreign ownership of our lands, the merging of media/news outlets with big business, such that now it's obvious to just about anyone that pays attention that the news is constantly slanted by parent company, especially if a story could hurt the bottom line. Fascism is merging Big Business and Government. Rumsfeld is a big supporter of this. Look at what he did with the military. His privatization movement wasn't anything other than taking civil servant and other government jobs and pushing for direct private replacement of those. There's no cost savings, but worse, no more oversight. Now, that defense contractor hires his own Project managers to oversee his product. Before, the CS from the government, who was not beholden to the contractor, oversaw the contract and their job was to make sure the contractor was being diligent.
As long as "those" people get ousted, I'm not worried. If the next R candidate wants to keep these power "neo-con fascists", that I'd have a problem with.
And here's another problem just as big. The Federal Reserve. It's the source of power for these people. Did you know Rumsfeld used to run the World Bank? And that the only area of the world the IMF and World Bank don't control is the middle east? ? Did you know the Federal Reserve is a private bank, not a Government agency?? So a bank prints our money, and "sells" it to our Government with interest. Why are we PAYING for our own money? How absurdly stupid is that?? And considering the FR ownership is unknown, how does one keep tabs on them? And, who really runs the country? Congress, the President, or the FR?? Well, consider that Congress can't do anything without Money, and the President can't do anything without Congress, what happens if Congress goes against the wishes of the FR? They aren't beholden to give Congress money whenever Congress asks. They can easily say no, you are pushing an agenda we do not like, so we won't be printing extra money for your programs, and we're going to raise the interest rates to boot. It's actually quite scary to think about. And until we return to a gold standard, and get control of our money back within the Government, I don't see these issues ever changing.
