"The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s" Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Let’s see Neoconservative….New Conservative…..New Era….all the same scam just repackaged.

In order to understand Neoconservative we have to understand its roots which was the New Era philosophy of the 1920’s. An era of free wheeling consumerism that gave us The Teapot Dome Scandal (the first oil scandal of note) and origins of the “single bid contract”, the rise of the power of the Ku Klux Klan, Saw the Federal Government use the Red Scare to practice the repression of Civil Rights with the Sedition Act, gave us Prohibition, (what a great success that was), and oversaw the collapse of the middle class system to allow the extreme wealthy to accumulate more wealth while the average American suffered during the Great Depression which was set up by the Laissez-faire policies of non regulation that Conservatives advocate.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." John Stuart Mill

by Hubble on 08/16/2008 09:17:34 AM EST

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