To which I might well reply to the neo-cons today (who, by the way are mostly bigoted, white, and well-off): “This is America today, love it or leave it.”

As though a trite litany of the mindless euphemisms employed by the reactionaries of my youth (those mostly distraught by the passage of the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts) are really useful in any analysis. But, perhaps you learned otherwise in your family counseling classes…

My suggestion would be that you engage in a disciplined analysis of your discourse and from there attempt to employ some dialectical discursive analysis. But, like most neo-cons and neo-con apologists, I rather suspect you won’t…

P.s. I’m posting this dialogue to my Facebook account for the amusement of my FB friends from across the political spectrum — Hope you don’t mind… lol

On the right sidebar, under “categories,” the very first one is called “A mind is a difficult thing to change: my change story.” Click on it, scroll down to the bottom, and start reading the explanatory tome in chronological order.

If so, welcome to the world of the neo-cons whose bluster and bravado, loneliness, and inability to find or embrace innovative solutions to persistent problems cause them to solve their social/political schizophrenia by finding common cause with subsuming themselves in the quaking jelly of fearful reactionaries whose solutions lie in a mythically ideal and non-existent past.

When I began reading your blog about becoming a neo-neocon, I thought I might find a disciplined dialectic….

We have a constitution because we disagree, not because we agree. If you read the constitution you will not see one word in the document about political parties; left or right; conservative or liberal.

This is because we are all on one side: The side of individual liberty. Therefore, with respect to politics, I am only on the side of a constitutional government limits power.

Since Presidents, members of Congress, and Judges all swear to uphold the constitution and don’t, make them all Benedict Arnolds. Changing your view makes you a good American. Forcing your view on others is tyranny.

Is your friend a friend when they want to force you to accept the government takeover of the banks, GM and Healthcare and trillions of dollars of debt. A wise old line from a blues song says, “If you watch your good friends real carefully your enemies can’t do you no harm.”

John Romeo

We are the free workers – you see us in the Solidarność movement against the Communists, in the streets of Seattle against the corporatists, in kibbutzes and anarchist collectives, in womens/worker/immigrant cooperatives. We make decentralizing (and yes, money-making) tools like Facebook, Twitter, and the blog system that you use.

We simply tire of middle-class neo-Modernists prancing around our neighborhoods pretending to know us better than we do, beating us upside the head with ideology… and irresponsibly retreat to their comfortable worlds while we clean up their mess. If any ax-grinding is gonna take place today, this surely would be the most obvious.

We are young, glib, versatile, multilingual, ideologically flexible, and rightfully pissed off about the irresponsible Boomers (both hippies and teabaggers) who continue to hog the microphone and want to turn my century into another ideological fight.

Look you of the upper/middle classes: we hold you in high regard and enjoy you… but we don’t trust you. Nothing personal… we learn from experience. Stop consuming us to validate yourselves. And pay attention.

Basically that’s the definition of a useful idiot/tool. He does what he is told to by the powers that be. When they give the order, he’ll go on his supposed “war” rampage, but the goal will be decided by the Leftist commanders and commissars, not the blue collar drones and cannon fodder.

Well, the Left tends to recruit such in spades. Maybe they’ll even make use of them, when SEIU needs more bodies.

What kind of North Korean brainwashing is required for this one again?

It’s why people with an axe to grind aren’t given positions of authority. They can’t be trusted to wipe themselves after. Hygiene issue.

Neocons will pay.

When it comes to real war, you’ll be the first one they pick off. You’ll be singing a different tune then.