Re: Like Hell I'm Going To Let Some Black President Help Me Pay For Dialysis!!!
And a NeoCon is a former liberal turned conservative. It seems that people think it's a disparaging term for a Conservative.
Actually a Neo-con/liberal/nazi is someone who's ideas differ slightly from the original idea (whether this idea is Liberalism, Conservatism, Nazism , ...ism, etc) but who technically still promotes and agrees with the general concept of the original ism.
For instance : Original liberals had a certain idea about the economy (free market), schooling (free for everyone), independent personal development & less influence from the church, because liberals back in the 19th century believed the church tried to limit people's personal development.
Over time, certain ideas were scrapped or became less important. Free schooling was not feasible in the system they wanted & even some liberals turned to the church when they were facing personal problems.
What remained was a free market economy & the belief that people should develop independently. The people that promote this are called Neo-Liberals.
The difference between Nazi's and Neo-Nazi's is the way they look at society. Most Neo-Nazi's have little or no respect for society, which (I assume) they consider to be weak and infected by ... (enter whatever they hate in the dots). Old Nazis believed that society itself wasn't bad, but needed to be cleansed of some unwanted elements (everyone knows what this lead to...). A minor, but important difference.
Neo itself means little more than new & in the case of political streamings it simply means new ideas, certainly not that they're new members to the original idea. This is generally a good thing, since political ideas that don't evolve don't survive for a longer period of time. Yet, this can also be a bad thing.
Take communism for example. There's Marx's original idea and the way Lenin explained it (Leninism). Let's call this Leninism the original communism, when Stalin became the head of the communist party, his ideas differed (slightly) from Lenin's ideas (even though his ideas weren't perfect either, but then again, neither is bolshevism in general). One could say that the system he impemented was a form of neo-communism (although it's officially called Stalinism). Stalinism & Leninism, both communistic streams, kept on fighting for power during Soviet Russia's existance. Without Stalinism, The USSR might have survived a decade longer, yet, if Gorbachev had gotten to power earlier in his life and the other Eastern & Central European powers had still been more loyal to Russia, he might have succeeded in pushing through is reforms & we might have seen a true neo-communism.
Yet people with differing ideas, that usually can and do accept some of the ideas that the other political streaming has scrapped, use the neo word as an insult.
Example. Many socialists will use the word neo-liberal as an insult, since they generally do not agree with most of the POVs of current liberals, yet they do agree with distancing itself from the organised church & also agree with free schooling.
So a neocon is simply a consevative person that no longer believes in every part of the original concept of conservatism (either because it goes too far or not far enough) and whose ideas have shifted slightly (or a lot, depending on who you ask).
