Neo Conservative? Neo Liberal?

At a Protest of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) I asked some folks what the difference between a Neo Con and a Neo Liberal was.

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[SweetDissident]

To paint it with a very broad brush stroke,

think: Thatcher=neoliberalism Dubya=neoconservatism

Both are capitalists; neocons are jingoistic war hawks, neolibs are hegemonic corporate globalizers. Neither seem to care about social democracy.

[worldoperator]

plutocracy is the current form of world government.. u.s. americans pretend we live under democratic government we run but it's more like a plutocracy than we wish to admit.

i would call world government a timocracy but no honor is involve.

[axlrod05]

i love how you have to get foreigners to tell you the truth about america lol

[shrapn0]

Thomas Jefferson “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

I think "too much government" is a rather weakly defined term, but generally is meant to mean that excessive government intervention in personal liberty is undesirable in a free society. Typically the same people that worry about too much "corporate power" replacing big government are the same types that would argue the government are under control of corporations anyway...

[Lillymill]

It seems that these people keep parroting the same phrases as the ones they claim to be opposing.

What exactly is "too much government" supposed to mean?

Is the amount of government necessarily related to the quality of government?

Less government means more corporate power.

People elect governments, they do not elect corporations.

How the hell is less government supposed to improve anything - based on hope in human charity and benevolence?!

[scalp340]

All this guy needs to do is sub capitalism for Fascism (or corporatism), and the video is perfectly accurate. capitalism would never allow this to exist, because each individual participating in real economics, would never participate it these BS schemes. they would quickly fail, (even if they were able to to get off the ground) because they would crumble under their own weight.

[scalp340]

@lsl70 your comment needs to be right there at the top. it was exactly what i was thinking.

[lsl70]

Capitalism isn't the problem. The problem is our current corrupted form of Capitalism called Corporatism. Corporatism made possible by the Neo-Cons (fake conservatives) and Neo-Libs (fake liberals) who are only in Washington to get rich while serving the interests of their foreign globalist banking and corporate masters.

[joker52mlb]

@wildboy789789 Dude, you have no fucking concept of what i am talking about.

[wildboy789789]

@joker52mlb your right... fuck those useless spineless hippies... FORCEING the rich to pay some socialist tax so that police and firemen are free... I WORK HARD FOR MY MONEY!!! WHY ARE POOR PEOPLE USEING MY MONEY TO PROTECT THEMSELFS WITH COPS!?!?!?!... this is america, if you want security from crime you have to pay for it, no free rides... <--- thats what you sound like, your an idiot

[joker52mlb]

@wildboy789789 I'm no nationalist, selfish, or scum either. As i define scum as those that contribute nothing to society except violence, crime, stupidity and things of that nature. You should read into what a nationalist is. As a matter of fact, you need to read a shitload of books guy. Any pertaining to math, accounting, history, ethics, philosophy, politics. Many more on a grand scale of other topics would be great as well, just to see the folly of your dickless and incompetent ways.