January 9, 2005 at 11:03 am
Well going to open a new thread for this (many people are opening threads for things more stupid)
So answer here please and not in my essay.
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The wrong belief in neo-conservatism as if it would be the successor of an American tradition. I don’t want to get into details about what neo-conservatism has done so far, but it’s philosophy is what interrests me more (crazymainer).
Neo-conservatism is first of all an ideology of the sixties, a movement against NEW LEFT which wanted to get back to the original American dream of participatory democracy (no marxism)! In the early days of the US, even before as British colonies, the individual civilian had a lot more to say than today. This is what liberalism stands for. Reagan was not a liberal, he was more an authocratic leader.
Neo-cons say they want to “defeat evil”. Well, this is a modern zionist belief!! Not a judeo-christian belief. The original Jewish regilion (and thus Christianity too) placed God as a creature above all men, who could lead us into a world where good won over evil. The neo-cons, though they claim to be traditional, switch this. They consider it their task to fight “evil”, they claim God has given them the power to fight evil. This is raping Judeo-Christian religion, as God would never tell people pratically what to do. God stands above good and evil. This zionist interpretation (Fackenheim and Rubenstein) is widely appreciated by the neo-cons. However, this is a post-WWII (post holocaust) religion. If Bush is saying “god is on my side”, than he’s most certainly not talking about the God from the Bible, but a god he created on his own. Not that Roman Catholicism hasn’t done any evil though.
I hope that is a valid answer to your claim that liberalism is un-American. Neo-conservatism breaks with any tradition. It resembles a bit like nazism, not in its actions, but in letting people belief they are a traditional ideology while in fact they represent something totally new! Look, I’m not saying neocons are nazi’s, far from it.