Re: I hope it passes

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From: S. Smith
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:22

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On 01 Feb 2004 20:13:29 GMT, jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:07:32 -0600, S. Smith <scott.smith@visi.com> wrote:
>>On 01 Feb 2004 19:38:07 GMT, jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:25:49 -0600, S. Smith <scott.smith@visi.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Then they most certainly shouldn't be voting Republican...especially
>>>>in this era of the neoconservatives and their contempt for most 
>>>>non-Americans in the world.
>>>
>>>There aren't any "neocons".  It's a term invented by the left as a way
>>>of demonizing people who disagreed with them.
>>
>>No, it has a definite history and meaning in U.S. politics.
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_(United_States)
>
>It was invented by the left to keep people from listening to those
>former members of the left who woke up to reality, and decided they had
>been wrong.

Every term has an origin. And many terms, such as this one, 
often grow to mean something more, or entirely different, than their
initial origin.

In any case, the modern usage of "neoconservative" definitely applies to 
American politics at this point in time. Although, I still think the term 
"ruthless and greedy imperialists" has a more honest ring to it.

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