"Mitt Romney Blurts Out the Truth About Neo-Conservatism"

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Mitt Romney Blurts Out the Truth About Neo-Conservatism

by Linda McQuaig at Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/28-5

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With this truthfulness caught on tape, Romney has probably done more than incinerate his own presidential bid. He has so vividly exposed the cynicism and greed that lies at the heart of what is now called “conservatism” that he may have inadvertently begun its undoing.

Once upon a time, “conservative” could be used to describe people — Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Stanfield, Joe Clark — who had a vision of society in which a privileged elite dominated but also had a responsibility to less fortunate citizens and to the broader “public good.”

But about 30 years ago, a new breed of “conservative” slithered onto the political scene. Stealing the moniker of conservatism, this new breed embraced the inequality of traditional conservatism (driving it skyward) while unburdening itself of the responsibility for others and the public good.

This new breed has proved itself to be self-centered, greedy and indifferent to the public good.


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1. The problem is...

... that the "New Democrats" have been more than happy to step to the Right and meet these "New Conservatives" half way.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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2. Neo-Conservatives/Neo-Liberals/Neo-Pirates

GO TO MICHAEL HUDSON'S WEBPAGE!!

His cogent and well-presented articles explain the "weaponization of finance." All of our financial institutions have been taken overby a self-apppointed elite. They are enslaving the USA and Europe using rentier capitalism. Just like the French Bourbons, they learn nothing and they forget nothing.

"If you don't like the laws, don't fight 'em.
Buy some politicians who'll re-write 'em."

Maintaining the appearance of the democratic
process is part of the cost of doing business in
the United States of America.