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The Foundation for Noble Neo-Conservative Lies Oct 22, 2009
By Lloyd Lofthouse
", author of 'My Splendid Concubine'"
If you want to have a better idea of what is going on in American politics, Crusading Spirit is an informative book. The author fills pages with passionate opinions and provides evidence to support what he says. There's a reason why America's two major political parties are polarized. Crusading Spirit provides another piece to the puzzle for people with open minds that want to unravel the misinformation the radical right uses to mislead voters.
It happens that Bazillion's specialty is the history of modern Germany, and we learn from Crusading Spirit that Neoconservatism, like Nazism supports and pushes dangerous ideas.
Two men are mentioned often in the book, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. Schmitt joined the Nazi party in May 1933, and is sometimes referred to as "the crown jurist of the Third Reich." His ideas have had a powerful influence over neoconservatives. Crusading Spirit links these dangerous Straussian ideas to the George W. Bush Whitehouse and many of the president's influential advisors (including Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Abram Shulsky, Stephen Cambone, Elliott Abrams, Stephen Hadley, and Douglas Feith--page 65). The book explains in detail why America went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and how those wars were botched and why.
Neoconservatives, President Reagan's Democrats, whom left the Democratic Party when their crazy ideas were ignored, believed through their founder in the noble lie if it furthered their political and philosophical beliefs like using war for nation building and trickledown economics, which has almost bankrupted the nation. Both concepts have failed but hardcore neoconservatives refuse to accept that and they want back into the White House to try again.
Neoconservatives today claim they do not lie but they do. If you have followed the debate about Healthcare in America, these lies are rampant. The truth can be discovered by reading the AARP (American Association of Retired People) Bulletin. Bazillion's book explains how the foundation for neoconcervatism in America was build with wet sand--not concrete or steel.
It's a tragedy this book will not reach a wider audience. Like most books written by PhDs spending decades lecturing to university students, Crusading Spirit bogs down with a reading level far above the average American. I kept reading because I know someone that matches Bazillion's description of the average far-right radical neoconservative/evangelical. That description matches a friend of mine, who, like George W. Bush, was born again.
To find a larger audience, Bazillion should slim down his book by cutting about a hundred pages (due to repetition), and simplify the language. However, the odds are that even if Bazillion rewrote his book so someone with a sixth grade (about average for most Americans) reading level could read it, they wouldn't be able to understand the importance of the information.
That's why a neoconservative voice like Rush Limbaugh with the number one radio talk show in America influences thirty million listeners. He talks to them as if they cannot think. Pundits like Limbaugh know how to reach people with their message. This explains why America ended up with George W. Bush in the White House for eight years. Authors like Richard Bazillion should learn from right-wing pundits how to get his message out.
Abraham Lincoln said that "You can fool most of the people some of the time and some of the people most of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." It seems that neoconservatives believe they can, and they are working overtime to achieve that goal before the next election.
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