I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
I am not a neoconservative.
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.
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