tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post3391096954008064262..comments2024-03-09T22:15:04.984-08:00Comments on Global Paradigms: Deconstructing Republican presidential candidatesLeon Hadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07074306142674999554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post-40478231001824116502008-03-04T00:42:00.000-08:002008-03-04T00:42:00.000-08:00An interesting reformulation of the contemporary d...An interesting reformulation of the contemporary debate. As I read your article, I would shorthand it something like this (in contemporary terms):<BR/><BR/>Jeffersonians = paleocon-libertarians; Jacksonians = Reagan Democrats; Hamiltonians = Cheney/Rumsfeldians; and Wilsonians = Bush-Neocons/Clinton-Neolibs.<BR/><BR/>It would be nice, and even tolerable, if the Washington Establishment was split roughly and proportionately along those lines. Unfortunately, the Washington Establishment is so dominated by money-worshipping Hamiltonians and warped, Israel-first "idealistic" Wilsonians who, in typical authoritarian fashion, refuse to tolerate the inclusion of other perspectives, that to defeat them, a more simplistic, dualistic approach becomes necessary: real Americans vs. greedy Neolib/Neocon parasites.<BR/><BR/>But that was their choice, not ours. Their authoritarian delusions of grandeur and insecure drive to dominate refuses to tolerate dissent, opposition or competition, and hence make them insufferable to those who understand that dissent, opposition and competition are at the core of American greatness.Chris Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047837119620914455noreply@blogger.com