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To: quidnunc
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.

14 posted on 04/27/2003 2:37:15 PM PDT by Iris7 (Sufficient for evil to triumph is for good people to be imprudent.)
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To: Iris7
Iris7 wrote: If you want to learn about politics and such read Cicero. Nothing has changed since then except technology.

You keep nattering on about philosopers and ancient Greek and Roman worldviews.

May I remind you that both societies were heavily dependent upon slavery for their functioning?

Look at Old Europe, the countries of which are prone to ordering their societies acording to the dictates of philosophers.

This tendency gave us just in the last 100 years fascism, Marxism/communism and most lately postmodernism which — along with its handmaiden, multiculturalism — insists there is no such thing as objective truth.

So while studying the ramblings philosophers may be useful for liberal-arts students, there is very little there applicable for modern statecraft.

A pox upon all philosophers.

16 posted on 04/27/2003 3:01:28 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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