Introducing...the NeoLib

Through universal powers that for all eternity will bring balance to the world, ying and yang, good and evil, Abbot and Costello, emerges a new breed of left-wing ideologist. Introducing the NeoLib.

The NeoLib is an a-religious fundamentalist. He condemns religion like a victorian vickar condemns sex. He considers his agnostic views to be superior to other-minded people and extrapolating on that thought considers himself to be intellectually superior.

The NeoLib does not tolerate thoughts outside the framework of his ultra-left ideology and thereby distinguishes himself from his compassionate liberal brethren, whose open-minded tolerant nature is considered weak and inferior.

The NeoLib will not consider the possibility that anybody right of Joe Lieberman might have something sensible to say and therefore automatically discards the opinion of at least half the people in the US.

The NeoLib does not subscribe to the moderate mindframe of the Democratic Party but uses the party nevertheless to further his political agenda. The NeoLib secretly admires his rightwing counterpart for their accomplishments.

The NeoLib. I made him up of course.

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and religious rightists. That is one of the more powerful reasons why I am a Democrat

Neocons seemed like a harmless bunch of idiots for most of the 80s and 90s. Then suddenly....

joe is really a neo-con..or just another former DA which makes him a real con..

I certainly know this "pure" type and they are very very very very very very annoying. And they can be staggeringly hypocritical as their NeoCon counterparts. And yes, I find myself often in opposition to them, as I am with right wing wackos.

Authoritarianism, although more typical of the right wing, can also occur on the left.

I submit to you that most of the FERVENT switchers of parties occur among individuals of this type. Interesting that the asshole "leftists" of the 60s and 70s became the asshole "rightists" of the 80s and beyond. Why? Because the Republican Party offered richer opportunities for them to act out their hostilities, and to express their innate feelings of superiority.

They indulge in the same "splitting" as their right wing counterparts -- everything is black and white, and there is no compromise, etc etc.

But not all atheists and agnostics are "fundamentalists". For many, their lack of religion is another type of multi-culturalism that happily coexists with people of faith. They can accept that other people embrace religious faith, and even have warm feelings towards religious faith, and are not the sort of person who ARGUES that their position, and only their position, is absolutely 100% The Truth. Self-aggrandising authoritarian atheists are JUST as loathesome as their authoritarian religious counterparts. But the KEYWORD here is "authoritarian", and not religious/non-religious.

He condemns religion like a victorian vickar condemns sex. He considers his agnostic views to be superior to other-minded people and extrapolating on that thought considers himself to be intellectually superior.
How about rejecting the idea that only religion is right and the rest are wrong?

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I would agree with most of it. Definitely.

You gather up some simple-minded stereotypes and counterpose them to a well financed and highly organized neofascist cabal that has taken control of the US state apparatus?

Really?

You are either a fool or an operative, trying to suggest that one particular subset of views within the progressive community is in any way similar to the neocon operation.

A fool? Maybe. I doubt it.

I assure you that the NeoLib exists only in my twisted mind and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

With that disclaimer, I'd like to point out that the NeoLibs are not similar to NeoCons. They are their exact counterparts.

Ok, the divisiveness you are promoting is clearly based on a deranged view of the world. Admit it or not, the neocons are very real and very dangerous and very powerful. Compare them to some internet posters you dislike, if you wish, but that is a bizarre and deluded view of how things are.