The true conservatives are not the so called neo-cons, which are in fact old marxists using the conservative movement to achieve their narrow and very selfish ends.
The true conservatives are in the mold of our founding fathers, who did not like permanent alliances and were clearly "America First" people.
The party system is destroying the country.The demsheviks are much more virulent but both parties have been infiltrated, in different degrees, by the "progressives"/marxists.
If we are to survive as a nation, we must recommit to the Constitution.
I laughed my posterior off when you stated, "Fox beats a Pig...."
Actually, for such a forum lead by mostly engineers and scientists, Bollocks I would expect better research from you.
in any contest between a pig and a fox, the pig wins decisively. Pigs: smarter, bigger faster better brains. Pigs, stronger, more willing to fight, and quite able to defend their territory. This I know for a fact. When a young man, my family raised pigs. And we had a fox problem with our chickens.... The solution: we moved our pig area to be adjacent to the chicken area such that foxes had to transit the pig pen to reach the chickens. Result: DEAD FOXES. Several over a period of weeks. Then never again did we have any problem with Foxes.
Clearly you have never actually considered the true outcome of any contest between these two species. Foxes would have NO chance. Even if foxes hunted in packs, which they don't, Pigs still win.
Thankfully, I left the farm when I was 18, never to return. My professional life is fully in high tech. But I know from personal experience, growing up on a real farm in the midwest, what the outcome will be from a fox vs pig encounter. Has any one ever heard any one use the statement "like a fox robbing a pig pen"? No, well that is because Foxes do not go there. They know they will loose.
And this post in no way is a response to the politics bashed about on the board. Just a correction of the childish assumption by Bollocks regards foxes vs pigs. With a nickname like "Bollocks" I would expect you to be a bit more familiar with barnyard animals.
NOTE: any school child could do a drawing with as much accuracy! It is pretty easy to make stuff up.
I think it is funny that you rely on your history lessons from the WP. Do you know who owns the Post? Do you know how little regard it has in circle of people who actually know journalism and history?
Actually acohn, If you really do your homework, you will find that the intellectual foundations of neo-con's and the background of the thinking that their philosophy is based on, you will find that the neo-con's evolved / descended from fascism. not communisim.
Fascism is defined as the union of corporations with the state. This is the essence of nearly everything the neocons espouse.
Not a communist nor bolshevic nor socialist idea anyplace in their universe of thinking or actions. Not rooted in, nor descended from. Not from the ideas that immigrated from the Soviet or eastern blocs.
Not that I subscribe to either agenda or background: communist or fascist are both deeply flawed.
But your assertions about history are really off base.
Note: I personally know / knew before they died....some of those "old bolshevics" including some close personal friends of Che's. While I do not and have never agreed with their beliefs, I do know that your history claims are pretty wild at best.
I do however agree with you that in the context of the main political parties in the USA, the Left/Right dichotomy is false. Both sides are deeply in the pockets of the corporations and almost never represent the people that elected them, but almost always effectively represent the companies that pay to get them elected.
Larry, I don't know what you have against Fox. They teach us all sorts of things. For instance, the great depression was in 1948.
It is only because of such keen insight into the verifiable past that I rely on such astute folks to tell me about the present and the future. What kind of factoids have you taught us, eh?
"Left/Right is a false dichotomy in today's politics." True!
You could have left it at that, acohn.