{"id":3680,"date":"2009-11-23T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:06:09","slug":"failed-as-utterly-and-completely-as-soviet-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/23\/failed-as-utterly-and-completely-as-soviet-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"failed as utterly and completely as Soviet Communism<\/em>…"},"content":{"rendered":"
master-slave dialectic<\/u>: the encounter between two self-conscious beings, who engage in a "struggle to the death" before one enslaves the other, only to find that this does not give him the control over the world he had sought…<\/sup><\/em><\/div>\n
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Obama in China highlights total failure of conservative vision
– if you know how to see<\/a>
Open Left<\/font><\/strong>
By Paul Rosenberg
November 22, 2009<\/div>\n

Bush’s tax cuts & "free market\/free trade" policies were supposed to turbo-charge America’s economy, while the neo-conservative foreign policy laid out by the Project for a New American Century<\/strong> in "<\/strong>Rebuilding America’s Defenses<\/strong><\/a>"<\/strong> was supposed to be a blueprint for extending American hegemony across the globe, indefinitely, with the containment and subordination of China as a key strategic goal. Conveniently, those lofty promises of yesteryear have been entirely forgotten.  Otherwise it would have been impossible to cover Obama’s recent visit to China without starkly confronting the utter failure of conservative ideology, given its first unfettered shot at power since the 1920s, when it brought us the Great Depression…<\/p>\n

In summary, the neo-cons never even saw the terrorist coming.  They were taken completely by surprise, and now insist the Obama must continue on the doomed path of failure that they have constructed…not even thinking<\/em> about the number one challenge that they themselves<\/em> were obsessed with before getting blind-sided by al Qaeda<\/em>. Is there any way to even begin<\/em> to grasp how utterly foolish this state of affairs is? There are people in lunatic asylums who deserve to be taken more seriously than this sorry crowd of losers. It’s just that simple. Conservatism as an ideology has failed as utterly and completely as Soviet Communism.  It’s time to toss it onto the dust heap of history, before America itself winds up there.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is actually an article about China, but I loved the opening and closing so much that I left out the middle altogether. With Glen Beck organizing a march to the Lincoln Memorial on MLK day and Sarah Palin speeding about on her bus tour, I needed a shot of rational thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n
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con·ser·va·tism<\/strong> \\k\u00c9\u2122n-\u00cb\u02c6s\u00c9\u2122r-v\u00c9\u2122-\u00cb\u0152ti-z\u00c9\u2122m\\<\/div>\n
noun<\/em> <\/div>\n
1832<\/div>\n
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  1. Conservatism<\/em>\n