- Joined
- Feb 21, 2012
- Messages
- 37,380
- Reaction score
- 10,655
- Location
- US Southwest
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
You just keep on compounding the errors while you dig yourself deeper, there is no doubt about WHEN and WHO advanced the poli/sci ideology of neoconservatism, but this idea that it can only be shared via geographic location or through....OF ALL THINGS....genetics(!?!) is just the height of absurdity. There are conservatives of the past that lived and developed their ideas in England that American conservatives have adopted and developed, no one would be so silly as to put forward the proposition that conservative ideology can only be claimed by people of England.Please work on your reading comprehension. I wrote in my first post that the neoconservatives were former lefties or the children of former lefties. You need a memory span longer than fifteen minutes to play here. Because neoconservatism developed from a very small circle of mostly New York-based intellectuals, family ties were indeed significant. When you mock this you merely parade your ignorance.
Strictly speaking, the New Statesman is misusing the term "neoconservative" because it applies to a specific turn in American intellectual history. I will be charitable and grant that they are speaking only of ideas similar to those advanced by the neoconservatives. There cannot be a British neoconservative any more than there can be a British Gaullist.:roll:
The basic tenants of low taxation, an aggressive use of military force to further a dominant economic/strategic position, a disdain for international diplomacy, a tolerance towards the size of govt and welfare, a moralistic view towards social policy.....are not restricted to a particular place or family.
PS...since one the main tenants of Gaullism was the retaining of French Colonies, it would be tough to find large numbers of Brits who would be followers, but that not to say there were absolutely none....