24 Dec '18 10:55>
Pat Buchanan does a terrific job in this video outling what amounts to the true, classical conservative position on foreign policy:
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... To try to explain it beyond a bit of what Pat was saying here, I think that a lot of the Neocon perspective came from the Cold War. There was the idea of WWII awakening a sleeping giant -- a sleeping giant that should never go to sleep again, in the perspective of Neocons. This continue through the Cold War and then we get to a point where the Neocons believe that it is their duty to remake the whole world in their image.
Isn't this ultimately what globalization means? If there is anything that we can say is being globalized it is the Western liberal democratic paradigm -- a paradigm that the Neocons view as explicitly hyper-capitalist and human rights oriented in terms of positive freedoms, and which the neoliberals view as involving a welfare state and negative liberties. The fun part is, of course, that the American left is now arguing increasingly for free trade, anti-protectionism, and open borders, showing that they are really ready to work within the model of the New World Order (so to speak).
Pres. Trump and populist conservatism represents a departure from this.
If you are a liberal who is a genuine leftist interested in truly radical Leftism, it would be puzzling to me as to why you would view Trump with even more malice that you did than you viewed a Bush.
Regardless, it is a decent video that you should consider listening to.
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... To try to explain it beyond a bit of what Pat was saying here, I think that a lot of the Neocon perspective came from the Cold War. There was the idea of WWII awakening a sleeping giant -- a sleeping giant that should never go to sleep again, in the perspective of Neocons. This continue through the Cold War and then we get to a point where the Neocons believe that it is their duty to remake the whole world in their image.
Isn't this ultimately what globalization means? If there is anything that we can say is being globalized it is the Western liberal democratic paradigm -- a paradigm that the Neocons view as explicitly hyper-capitalist and human rights oriented in terms of positive freedoms, and which the neoliberals view as involving a welfare state and negative liberties. The fun part is, of course, that the American left is now arguing increasingly for free trade, anti-protectionism, and open borders, showing that they are really ready to work within the model of the New World Order (so to speak).
Pres. Trump and populist conservatism represents a departure from this.
If you are a liberal who is a genuine leftist interested in truly radical Leftism, it would be puzzling to me as to why you would view Trump with even more malice that you did than you viewed a Bush.
Regardless, it is a decent video that you should consider listening to.