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The paleo-con desiderata is something very much akin to the antebellum South, a society stratified by a class system where upward mobility is difficult, if not impossible.

One sees echos of this in East Coast high society where 'old money' looks down on nouveau-riche arrivistes and denies them entry into their social circles.

[Iris7]

The paleo-con desiderata is something very much akin to the antebellum South, a society stratified by a class system where upward mobility is difficult, if not impossible.

Your sweeping claim has the same validity as "All Republicans are racist" and "All Conservatives are Nazis" and "You are a Fascist." In fact, Paleos are mostly interested in a return to Constitutional Government, with limited, enumerated, and explicit powers, and in how it can be kept that way, that is, to keep the genie of tyranny locked away forever. That this is quixotic goes without saying.

If you want to learn about politics and such read Cicero. Nothing has changed since then except technology.