B&H Are More Conservative than Eisenhower Republicans with a Neocon Foreign Policy.

Domestic Conservatism

Lets see, the GOP platform was 60 years ago? Before B & H Clinton stripped AFDC, and set up the whole profiteering private prison slavery system? Not to mention deregulation of banks. And effectively killing public housing? https://www.popularresistance.org/?s=public+housing&submit.x=0&submit.y=... All those for profit detention centers full of Latino children the CEO’s of which donated large sums of money of which only $8000 was returned? Militarizing the police? “Under the program inaugurated by the Clinton administration, the Pentagon has transferred more than $5.4 billion worth of supplies, including weapons and vehicles, to local police, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.” http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-criminal-justice-...

… her role in supporting, and actually a major role in the TPP which she considered her highest priority as SOS?

To mention a few policies of the Reagan agenda supported and continued by B & H Clinton. .

Neocon Foreign Policy

Its the foreign policy straight out of the Kissinger, Cheney & Rumsfeld’s playbook that sticks in my throat about H. Clinton and her abject failure as Secretary of State.

“The neocon movement originated among liberal Democrats, mainly Jewish, who gravitated to the right in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In significant part, this reflected a concern that American liberalism was moving leftward in ways detrimental to Jewish interests. In foreign policy, this involved diminished support by American liberals for Israel—in line with the world left’s support for Third World movements that included the Palestinians—and the liberals’ turn against an anti-Communist foreign policy, as a reaction to the Vietnam imbroglio, at a time when the Soviet Union’s policies were exhibiting discrimination against Soviet Jewry and opposition to Israel in support of its Arab enemies. In opposing what they saw as liberalism’s move to the left, these proto-neoconservatives did not see themselves as becoming conservative, but were dubbed with the moniker “neoconservative” by left-wing social critic Michael Harrington, who intended it as a pejorative term, and the name soon stuck.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-criminal-justice-...

Its the hundreds of military bases everywhere, the subversion of sovereign states, the selling of weapons to the Saudis and other gross violators of human rights, the support of Israeli apartheid in Palestine, the complete failure of relief efforts in Haiti (and rigging the election), the coup in Honduras, the warped, essentially racist world view as in the policy that its the Haitians who are corrupt and not the corporations and NGOs, the continuation of regime change and perpetual war, belligerence and cold war posturing towards Russia while establishing a neo-Nazi regime in the Ukraine…

GOP 1956

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...but too complex for me to comment!

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flitedocnm's picture

voting for Bernie in the NM Primary, I plan to change my registration to Green Party.

My first vote for President was for George McGovern in 1972.

Today's Democratic is no longer the party of FDR. The Clintons have engineered a successful takeover of the Democratic Party by the ghosts of the former Republican Party. I continue to challenge anyone to give me a substantive example of how Hillary Clinton differs from traditional Republicanism, except, as pointed out in this diary, she is significantly to the right of Eisenhower, especially on foreign policy. Her neoliberalism is essentially the same as trickle-down, supply-side, voodoo Reaganomics.

A friend told me the other day that his two children, former strong Bernie supporters, when they realized Bernie was not going to have a chance of winning the nomination, are rallying around -- Trump. Yep, the Clintons have utterly alienated the younger generation, and it's unlikely the Democratic Party will ever get them back.

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NonnyO's picture

1956 Republican platform reads like today's "Ideal Democratic Platform." Wow! Ain't that a kick in the head!

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I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960

1) Bernie
2) Jill Stein
3) Donald Trump
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Clinton .... NEVER!

Fasten you seatbelts for Philadelphia. She will roll over anyone who disagrees with her in any way. It's all about power, her power and getting enough sycophants lined up to enforce her power.

Good essay, Alex. I remember the Republican of the 50s and 60s and they were far to the left of HRC. Even Nixon believed that a welfare program was necessary as the cost of really fixing the problem, that is education and jobs, was too expensive. Bill solved this by simply destroying the program and letting the poor pay the cost. Nixon formed the EPA. We really need to create a party on the Left to make America into what it should be.

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Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.

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I also travelled Route 66 back in the day when there was no Interstate Highway System.
"Blood Alley" they called it. Coast to coast was 5 days of driving two lane pothole covered concrete with two people sharing the driving.
Eisenhower opened up all of America and created an efficient way to move people an goods without having to rely on the railway system.
Essentially breaking the monopoly of the railroad barons, again.
The Interstate Highway System made Americans more mobile than ever before, allowing them to easily move from declining areas of the country to wherever the jobs were. In my family's case, migrating from Appalachia to Southern California in mass.
By the late 50s over a hundred of my family, relatives and friends had migrated to L.A.
All of us from the same county. We were the "Grapes of Wrath " people with a high speed freeway.
America doesn't do great things anymore.
The rest of the world is leaving us in the dust. Why?
Because profit and greed has infected the body politic and currently has literally, a deathgrip on our future.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.