This transformation requires coersion, bribery and even force. These people may have abondoned communism but not their revolutionary zeal. To sum it up these people are not conservatives at all, they have manufactured a NEW conservatism which is the antithesis of the traditional American variety.
Spot-on. That's neoconservatism in a nutshell. The only thing "conservative" about these people is the fact that they are still generally viewed as being slightly to the right of their Democratic counterparts. But compare their beliefs to those of the founders and the neocons end up looking more like socialist revolutionaries.
The founders would be totally confused by todays society and could not apply their lines of reasoning to the present day mode of life.
I think that they would be pleased however, as they learned what government was capable of doing.
Their vision was very limited in the early days and was confined more to not becoming a English style monarchy. That was their biggest fear.
That is just reality. Not some socialist bent.