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To: Dr. Frank
The problem in understanding is your own. Necons admit to the Trotskyist origin and influence. Is that not enough for you to acknowledge the fact even though you don't understand the ideology of it all?

Have you invested in some sort of hero worship to these neocons before you knew their origin and can't accept this linkage or something?

90 posted on 06/17/2003 6:42:13 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro
Necons admit to the Trotskyist origin and influence.

Stephen Schwarz admits to having been a Trotskyist. That's not the same thing as "Necons"[sic] admitting to "Trotskyist origin and influence". You need to learn to distinguish between individuals and groups of humans.

Ted Kaczynski admitting to killing people. That doesn't mean that "white guys" or "mathematicians" have admitted to killing people. To fail to understand the distinction is bizarre.

Is that not enough for you to acknowledge the fact

No, it is not enough. The fact that Stephen Schwarz used to be a Trotskyist is not enough for me to acknowledge that there is a "link between Trotskyists and neoconservatism". Any more than the fact that Ronald Reagan used to be a Democrat proves that there is a "link between Republicanism and Democratism". It is silly, silly thinking.

Have you invested in some sort of hero worship to these neocons before you knew their origin

LOL... "hero worship"? Boy have you got the wrong Freeper.

Listen close: I don't even know who these so-called "neo-cons" ARE. I can never get a straight answer from anyone. As far as I can tell now, only the following people are on the list: 1. Irving Kristol, 2. Norman Podhoretz, 3. David Horowitz, 4. someone named Stephen Schwarz.

"hero worship"? I barely know who any of the above four guys ARE.

and can't accept this linkage or something?

I can accept the linkage between this guy Stephen Schwarz and Trotskyism because, after all, by his own words he used to be a Trotskyist. What I can't accept is that there is a linkage between whatever branch of conservatism is, as an ideology, being called "neo-conservatism", and Trotskyism.

The fact that those four guys or some subset of them used to be Trotskyists doesn't mean that "neo-conservatism" is linked to "Trotskyism". See previous Reagan/Democrat example.

Now, will you fill in the blanks of #186?

Can you? You can't, can you? That should REALLY tell you something.

91 posted on 06/17/2003 6:57:32 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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