Reply #29: no myth [View All]

[Rich Hunt]

The tone of this is a bit alarmist and maybe overstated, but the connections between the neo-cons and the fundies are definitely there.

Look what Irving Kristol has to say about it:

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/000tzmlw.asp?pg=1

But it is only to a degree that neocons are comfortable in modern America. The steady decline in our democratic culture, sinking to new levels of vulgarity, does unite neocons with traditional conservatives--though not with those libertarian conservatives who are conservative in economics but unmindful of the culture. The upshot is a quite unexpected alliance between neocons, who include a fair proportion of secular intellectuals, and religious traditionalists. They are united on issues concerning the quality of education, the relations of church and state, the regulation of pornography, and the like, all of which they regard as proper candidates for the government's attention. And since the Republican party now has a substantial base among the religious, this gives neocons a certain influence and even power. Because religious conservatism is so feeble in Europe, the neoconservative potential there is correspondingly weak.

I got an infuriating e-mail in my inbox today about how this talk of 'neo-conservatism' is nonsense, that it's the same old stuff, and that progressives should know better. How nice that some 'progressives' take no interest whatsoever in what is going on with the right. These are probably the same people who are voting for Nader. I've lost all patience with these people.