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Originally Posted by Griff
I don't like the politics of these folks either but I think you are putting two different groups together. The leading neo-cons tend to be leftists who gave up or "liberals mugged by reality" in Irving Kristols words and often Jewish. I often hear lefties lumping these folks together, maybe because it isn't pc to notice Jewishness?
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They lumped themselves together. "Neo-con" and "religious right" aren't religious appellations, they are political. (And "neo-con" is not a code word for "Jewish" just because some of the original neo-cons were Jewish. PC doesn't enter into it - it just isn't true.)