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Damascinos OP t1_jcaty3i wrote

Reply to comment by PermissiveActionLnk in The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear - (2004) BBC, part 1 of 3 compares the rise of neoconservative movement and the radical Islamist movement [00:59:11] by Damascinos

I’m sorry I disagree. The fear aspect of the neoconservative movement is prevalent throughout American society. One needs to only turn on the news, irrespective of the channel, national or local.

If you knew how the US was between 1990 and 2001 you would realize how much the neoconservative movement influence has had since 2001 and still has on American society.

And if fear isn’t as prevalent as you want to admit, the American exceptionalism as touted by the neoconservatives is very much prevalent in all manners of society.

These two are proof of the staying power of the neoconservative movement.

As for Trump et al, they are the next step in the neoconservative evolution. They haven’t become popular in a vacuum.

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Dripdry42 t1_jcbo9a7 wrote

1990-2001 FELT so... Reasonable. Things got done. Not perfectly but they were. The obvious rush to destroy democracy starting in 2000 was horrifying. Like, why ruin a reasonably good thing we had going? Oh right! Money.

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