Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Neo-cons are those who think that they are right and that gives the the right to make others bend to their will, that religion has a place in politics, that the police having more power is a good thing, that saying lower taxes during a campaign but raising them as soon as they are elected is acceptable, that the military is a tool for foreign policy, the federal government is a tool to be used to bully states into doing as the party wants, ignorant stuff like that.
Basically BushCo.
Conservatives believe that the Constitution and Bill Of Rights are good as they are and should be respected, that the people's rights are more important than the police, that lower taxes are better, that State's rights are important and private property should not be stolen by the state.

The problem is that it is as common for me to lable people "liberals" as it is for anyone who has a conservative view on any one issue to be labled as "neo-con". If you look at the available terms on line it really should be narrowed quite a bit more than the things you listed. True "neo-cons" are actually a very small but vocal minority portion of conservatives.

Democrats currently in power are certainly people who "they are right and that gives the the right to make others bend to their will". Happens every day in Congress right now...

Many conservatives believe "that religion has a place in politics" and they are not "neo-cons". (I do not, I am more of a anti-religion state guy).

"the military is a tool for foreign policy"... well unfortunately this is a true statement regardless of one's political leanings. Name a president and I will name a case where the projection of military power was used as a tool of foreign policy. Any one in the last 100 years...

"the federal government is a tool to be used to bully states into doing as the party wants"... this is a common thing that Congress (the Federal Government) does to States all the time. It is unrelated to whom is in power or who is the President. Federal mandates handed out which hold money in check unless the States comply abound.