Is there a class of men among us in America who, were they to ever perceive the presence of a choice between a world Dominated by the United States and no world at all, would choose no world at all?
And if this class is among us, who are they? Does this class of men have any stroke in either major political Party? Does their likeness appear in any of the three Presidential candidates? etc.
For what it is worth Harrogate feels it is a cop-out to invoke the caricature of the "Endtimes" driven Social Conservative/Evangelical at this juncture. That is a separate issue, and for Harrogate's money, more founded in illusion than in fact.
Indeed. The most striking thing about Social/Religious Conservatives is that they draw off all the most precious imaginative energy of liberal Americans. We are so busy warning against this "element" that we don't seem to notice that the far more dangerous eco-cons have by now almost totally closed the circuit on our republic. Witness the fact that so many people, even after all that has happened with the country, conceive of George W. Bush in primnarily in terms of social conservatism.
But anywho. Perhaps even the eco-cons ought to be mildly freaked by the questions Harrogate poses above.
Yes. Some might argue that the questions are hysterical ones in the first place. And, perhaps they are.
(Although, the Wars keep mounting, the shit-talking keeps escalating, and even those few among us who cared enough to do anything about it, wouldn't know where to begin. Blogging from one's study, for example, probably aint making much headway).
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Who in fact are the eco-cons? This is a new group that I have never heard of before.
Hopefully it is the trite little moniker, and not American-style economic conservatism, of which you have never heard.
:-)
Anyway, one silver lining about this wretched group is that it would almost certainly choose a world not run by the US over no world at all.
So long as the coffers are filling, all is well.
Eco-Con does not fit into my lexicon because economics is just one aspect of a policy. Other important aspects concern culture and foreign policy.
I never just think of one.
You are right to caution against overcategorizing. This is part of the titular Shallowness of the thoughts.
Yet, we categorize ourselves. Many among us vote, or take up an activist cause or two, on the basis of a small handful of issues, often handfuls that can be pretty reasonably located within a particular category which we can call "economic conservative," and be in the ballpark of what we are talking about.
In short, political parties are made up of coalitions, each of which represents specific interests.
One overriding interest being, the mandate for a world overtly run by America.
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