Da Hawg Frog Blog

The Neocon movement in the United States has taken the Conservative out of the GOP and replaced it with a mutant of the Republican agenda. They have destroyed what was a respectable party and turned it into a creature that old time Republicans don’t even recognize. It all started when they got in bed with the evangelical Christians and lost their focus on the principles the GOP has always been based on.

Conservatives believe in fiscal responsibility, limited government and personal accountability. Neocons, on the other hand, demonstrate an almost maniacal need to spend money they don’t have. They borrow and spend, putting future generations in jeopardy. They have turned government into big business and grown the bureaucracy to record levels. They have sold out democracy for nepotism and lobbyists quick cash. Their concept of personal accountability is deny everything. Call war peace, call failure success. They have destroyed the GOP.

The Neocons have taken over the GOP like some malignant growth. Destroying it from the inside. What they should have done is formed their own party instead of corrupting an existing one. When I was living in Germany I was impressed by the diversity of political parties that learned to compromise and exist. There were seven or eight major parties instead of two. Some of them had similiar ideas, but different approaches to accomplishing their goals. They had Democrats and Christian Democrats. The Neocons should have formed an Evangelical Republican party instead of demolishing the GOP from the inside.

I think Libertarian Mike Gravel gives us a good idea of why this is so dangerous. He speaks about the oppressive nature of religion and its effect on society.

It is the religious right that would take us back to the stone age with their supplanting scientific theory with ancient mythology. It is one reason why our students are failing in the scientific community. The church has too much influence on government and in turn is harming us as a society. While the rest of the world is making great advances in the sciences we are stepping back into a medieval mindset. It is like requiring that geography teachers teach it two ways, the earth is a ball of dirt flying through the universe and the earth if flat and the center of the universe.

The Neoconservative movement in the United States is doing us irreparable harm. They strive to ruin our education system and are more concerned with what we are doing in our bedrooms than what is going on in the board rooms.