I should add this -- like in the quoted statement above: I think that some people who use the word "neocon" don't actually realize what it means.  That's the value in codewords of that type -- it gets people stirred up against a perceived shadowy enemy -- without really identifying precisely who that enemy is.  But weak-minded individuals are easily well-trained to hate that faceless enemy.  Lots of people love to blame their personal problems on some vague, nebulous source out there.....like the leering neocons who are the puppet masters of world domination.  You know.....the neocons who are bankers, lawyers, scions of industry, politicians.........those types of neocons.  Those dirty, filthy, lousy neocons who are ruining everything for everybody.  It's a neocon's fault that I can't pay my bills.  It's a neocon's fault that the price of gasoline is so high.  It's a neocon's fault that things are going downhill: and I can't get a job.

And so.....later on, the resistance to dealing with that hated enemy isn't quite as bad as it otherwise might have been.......had the enemy been clearly identified from the beginning.

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