Reply #31: To really understand, you need to go a bit farther back...

[Gwerlain]

Here. Carl Schmitt. If you examine this man's prescription, you will begin to understand how the "Conservative Revolution" of 1994 was orchestrated.

"Schmitt argued that liberals, properly speaking, can never be political. Liberals tend to be optimistic about human nature, whereas "all genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil." Liberals believe in the possibility of neutral rules that can mediate between conflicting positions, but to Schmitt there is no such neutrality, since any rule -- even an ostensibly fair one -- merely represents the victory of one political faction over another. "

Keep reading after that one- it gets more interesting really fast.

If you start looking at what has happened as we have moved from the agrarian, to the manufacturing, to the information economy, you will see how the changes have produced social pressures that leave our society ripe for these tactics and strategies. You will also see how the values that the Neo-cons hold take advantage of the greatest strengths of the information and service economies and turn them into liabilities. More later.