Neos?

 When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we had Conservatives and Liberals.

The Conservatives wanted to keep things just as they were. After the Liberals forced through a change, the Conservatives wanted to keep things, with the change, just as they were. Conservatives were Isolationists: the US didn't need any other country, didn't want any other country, and wanted barriers to keep out furreners and their products.

Liberals wanted change, more opportunities for the Working Class, and peaceful international cooperation. More taxes (to pay for those opportunities for the Working Class), and laws that gave the Working Class more opportunities. Eventually, the Liberals wanted equal rights for minorities.

When I was a boy, the US South had separate schools for Anglos and African-Americans. We were told 'separate but equal'. And we liked it that way. Anglo teachers for Anglos, African-American teachers for African-Americans.

But the African-American schools had few books, the School Board didn't want to squander book money on African-American schools, all the money went for books for the Anglo schools. So the education in African-American schools was much less effective than the education for Anglo students. And still, many of the Anglo students didn't learn anything (I didn't even learn anything in sex ed class, it was so Bowdlerised).

But for Hispanics, many were told they could not attend either Anglo nor African-American schools, since they were neither, so they grew up illiterate, mono-lingual Spanish speakers.

For the East Asians, they also could not attend the public schools, but East Asians (mostly) paid for schools for their children who grew up speaking only a Chinese dialect and only literate in Chinese.

Times change. All US children are now supposed to go to school, so the Hispanics and Chinese now speak English. In the case of the Asians, better English than most Anglos. (Need to do something about those Asians.)

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Today, those Conservatives and Liberals are long gone. Instead, we have neo-Conservatives (neocons) and neo-Liberals (neolibs).

The neo-Conservatives want all the world under the US thumb, following the 'rule-based order' where the US make all the rules and give all the orders.

The neo-liberals also want all the world under the US thumb, so the entire world must do what is in the best interest of the US, PLUS the neo-liberals insist that everyone must be 'woke'.

The neo-cons do not believe in isolationism, they want the entire world a US neo-colony.

The neo-libs also do not believe in peaceful internationalism. Any nation that do not do what the US expect and demand must be destroyed and then forced to follow a woke agenda.

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See what an improvement the neos are over the traditional Conservatives and Liberals!