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To: NunAlveras Pereira
Now, though, the phrase refers to a specific ideology

Here's the problem: what ideology would that be?

Since the term was historically coined by/for a small group of people, it is personality-centered. Norman Podhoretz was a self-described "neo-conservative", but does that mean that every single thing he believed was part of "neo-conservative ideology"? He believed 2+2=4, so do I, does that mean I'm "subscribing to neo-conservative ideology" or something else?

If people can't talk about so-called "neo-conservatism" without making up their own little lists of sinister figures, we're really not even getting off the ground when it comes to trying to describe an ideology. I have perceived no coherent ideology being described by the people who bandy "neo-con" about.

all they're really saying is, "these are conservatives who supported Iraq war and I didn't". "Being a conservative and supporting the Iraq war" is not an ideology.

182 posted on 05/03/2003 9:40:59 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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