pimpkilla2
SuperGumby
I thinks its more to do with those not conforming to the so-called neo-con subgroup of the GOP than anything else... The organic thing might just be an example.
i think the term neo-con is bs
i mean if there is a neo-con, that must mean there is a neo-liberal right? i mean there have always been polar opposites in the political arena so it would just make sense for their to be a balance to it right? of course no one would ever admit it
There are indeed people who are called "neo-liberals" but it doesn't exactly work like that. It is more of an IR theory then a partisan position. It is based on the idea that international institutions reduce some of the inherent conflict of the international system. This viewpoint is probably strongest among those who focus on International Political Economy, or (IPE), and focus on trade and international finance.
The term "neo conservative" is a foreign policy preference which, ironically (I say ironically because of the vehemence with which liberals use it as an epithet), borrows as much from liberalism as it does traditional conservative foreign policy views. Neoconsevatives tend to believe in promoting liberal values, such as democracy, but using more conservative "realist" methods of promoting them, such as military force. A more traditional conservative is more likely to adhere to a more realist view which is less concerned about what kind of government a given country has as long as its interests and those of the United States are the same or compatable. A neoconservative is as likely to borrow from Woodrow Wilson as they are Theodore Roosevelt and, interestingly, this Wilsonian impluse in historical American foreign policy thought is to a degree responsible for the present neoconservative movement.
Interestingly, the core of the original neoconservative movement comes from traditional liberals on the political left: Most were a small group of liberal intellectuals who were disappointed with the excesses of the political left during the 1960's and tended to be either anti-communist or extremely disenchanted with communism.
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