Posted on 05/11/2005 9:08:36 AM PDT by EveningStar
I have no doubt. I also have no doubt that you knew precisely what I meant by my post.
You are on the mark about the similarities of the "Neocons" to the Brownshirts. Indeed, there is quite an historic parallel, in the birth of Nazi Germany. The Nazis found it easier to recruit fall away Marxists than just about any other group. The reason is obvious, to anyone who is not a Nazi or Marxist. They have a great deal of ideological common ground.
And what are the "Neocons" by the admissions of their own proclaimed "Godfather," but ex-Trotskyists. (See The "Neocon" Phenomenon.)
American Conservatism is about as near as you can get to the precise opposite of both Marxism and National Socialism. We are not Utilitarians. We do not believe that the end justifies the means. We do not believe that dependence upon Government is a good thing; that Government is an individual problem solver; that monolithic society is acceptable. Our history is a history of local, not central decision making; of minding our own business, not that of other races, tribes and nations.
We were able to form a Federal Union, of very independent thinking peoples, because we respected their independence on all matters of purely local concern. Anyone who understands history, society and human nature, will understand that were it otherwise, Virginia, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Connecticut could never have affiliated in a single Federal Union.
William Flax
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