As a corrolary of this thread in which I could not be as passionate as I wish, and mindful of being a foreigner attempting to influence a US election, I nevertheless implore you, America:
Please reject Neoconservatism on November 2nd.
[ul][li]These psychopaths care nothing for the global suffering they cause, so long as it furthers their utterly naive ideological goals. []They care nothing for economic prudence, preferring to mortgage the entire estate on a disastrously ill-conceived imbroglio which the rest of the family will take years, maybe decades, to pay off. []They care nothing for honesty, holding that an ideological myth is often necessary to counter inconvenient reality. []They care nothing for personal freedom, since it diminishes governmental power. []They care nothing for morality, confusing the act with the actor such that one’s own evil acts and alliances with monsters can be justified “because we cannot be wrong”.[]They care nothing for co-operation, nor diplomacy, nor even basic dialogue, preferring to stomp around in Soviet-style boots bellowing treason! at any who disagree.[]They care nothing for the lives of their soldiers and citizens abroad, so long as their deaths can be propagandised as being solely the responsibility of the enemy they depend upon.They have not even the social grace to be embarrassed when they lose a truth-telling contest with a lying, cheating tyrant like Saddam Hussein, instead constructing myth upon myth to hypnotise the electorate whom they view with such contempt. If these pricks had been in government back then, instead of at the miseducational teat of 2400-year-out-of-date Straussian philosophy, they would surely have claimed that Nixon did no wrong.[/ul][/li]I do not expect this plea to do any good (instead I await a neoconservative’s piss-weak turnaround of each of the above points so that they castigate that ineffectual but, crucially, non-psychopathic wanker John Kerry) and I would understand if you were to yawn and dismiss this as familiar partisan hysteria you’ve had a gutful of over the last months and years. Indeed, perhaps the US needs four more years of neoconservatism to finally realise its true nature and consequences, and thus set in stone its failure as a political philosophy in a historical lesson for future generations.
But the thought of what they could do in the next four years, especially if they came to realise that their philosophy was doomed, chills me to the very bone. I love and admire America, but I beg you, from Britain, your best political friend in the world, please reject Neoconservatism.
On a related note, do y’all foreigners realize just how much of a double-standard we got over here? I mean, the US as a whole thinks nothing of meddling in other country’s elections, whether it’s promising to continue funding domestic terrorism if the Sandanistas win, or using CIA tricks to promote one candidate over another.
But let some non-American even voice a hint of preference for one candidate or another, and you’ll think you’d just assassinated Willie Nelson from the response you’ll get. We take it real personal, for some reason.
Possibly the worst election flub I’ve heard about this cycle was when the Guardian sponsored a letter-writing campaign of Brits trying to get Bush kicked out of office. Talk about your political tin ears.
But yeah–I’ll reject neoconservatism. Even though some of my best friends are Jewish ;).
Why should we seek to influence US voters? Like the Guardian fiasco, it’s condescending, and could so easily backfire.
And yet the tempation is there.
Personally, I do wish I could influence US voters to get rid of the Neocons behind the man. I am worried that the people running the admin are driving an irreparable wedge in between the right and left of the US. I’ve never seen so much campaign animosity in a democratic country before. They’re also driving a wedge between the US and the rest of the world that can only get wider if they’re returned to power. Sure, the US is big enough and powerful enough to get its own way with few allies, but it’s a lot easier and less bloody when you do have friends. Maybe it’s selfish, but I favour a closer and more friendly relationship with the US, a country I love, not an antagonistic one.
For all the good it will do, I’m jjimm and I approve this message.
The trouble with this whole thing is that not all Bush supporters are ‘neocons’–you’ve been fed that line by your press, it seems, and it’s totally overreaching (and all too often I detect a whiff of anti-Semitism, too). A re-election of Bush will not mean that all the people who voted for him agree with the overstated points in the OP. For a lot of people he’s just the lesser of two evils–I’ve met plenty of people for whom Kerry represents the failed policies of the 60s.
Pardon us if not all of us immediately accept the wisdom of the Old World, whose constant convulsions sent most of us over here in the first place and took the lives of some of our relatives within living memory.
Don’t worry so much. We’ll always be there for our friends in Europe. But we have to go our own way. I hope we choose Kerry, but if we don’t, just accept the decision like us Democrats will over here.
At least, I plan too after a month or so of :mad: :mad: :mad:
And if I who have to live here can do it, so can you.
Actually, I do not think that Bush can accurately be characterised as neoconservative himself (not that Bush is, well, anything really). But the only way to reject it is by voting for someone else.
And that “anti-semitic” nonsense is just another myth which they envelop themselves with to avoid serious criticism of their ideology.
Please do! I’d be glad you have an opinion on the result one way or the other. I don’t agree with Boris’s politics, though I think he’s hilarious, but I’d love to hear what people from outside the country think about the situation.
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