Donald “Doc” Douglas (AKA “Americaneocon”) pushes a post-Trotskyite ideology using the language of conservatism, convincing the gullible he’s a conservative. But true to the Trotskyite foundations of his big-government, globalist philosphy, he sides with leftists on all the vital issues of the day.
Like any other leftist, he disparages true conservatives who want to preserve our culture and restrict the power of the Federal government. So Daniel Larison is dismissed as an “idiot,” and Pat Buchanan is a “bigot.”
To appreciate the extent that “Doc” Douglas promotes leftist ideology, we need to notice how closely he mirrors the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center. A traditional conservative who wins an argument with him will be blasted as a racist, and Douglas is quick to use the SPLC to back up his charge. Also like the SPLC, Douglas equates criticism of Neocons with “anti-Semitism,” as he does in a post entitled, Anti-Semitic Neocon Derangement. Notice how similar Douglas’ rhetoric is to this statement, from a video of an SPLC-sponored expose of opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens (1:40 in):
Eric Boehlert: “A lot of people on the far right don’t like Neoconservatives. Pat Buchanan wrote a whole book about how he basically hates Neocons. So it’s still in the realm of the right-wing mind set.”
Heidi Beirich: “Neocons for the most part in white-supremacist circles are identified as Jews. So it’s actually an expression of anti-Semitism when he has material like that about Neocons. It comes from his right-wing, crazy, anti-Semitic views.”
While traditional conservatives oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, leftists support it. Again, Douglas sides with the left on this explosive issue. After the American people stopped the Bush-Kennedy-McCain-Lindsey amnesty package two years ago, Douglas wrote:
I’ve supported the reform legislation as a way to move forward on the issue. I hate the lawbreaking of illegal immigration, which will continue in the absence of the bill. I also hate the relegating of people to the shadows.
With a blog entitled “American Power,” Douglas is clearly a government supremacist, always in favor of any increase in DC’s authority over Americans. President Obama gets high marks from Douglas for displaying “Neoconservative Pragmatism” in pushing his big government/imperial programs. And when Obama continued Bush’s war on habeas corpus, Douglas whooped with joy in a posting he entitled “Change! Obama Will Hold Terror Detainees Indefinitely! The concern that this socialist president will use his power to declare any American an enemy combatant without access to the Bill of Rights doesn’t seem to occur to Douglas.
Speaking of a president illegally imprisoning political opponents, it’s only natural that Douglas idolizes Abraham Lincoln:
Lincoln embodied “the nation’s avowed core values,” as do neoconservatives. …
I love President Lincoln. My visit to the Lincoln Memorial in 2007 was one of the most important political experiences of my life. I look forward to making that pilgrimage again.
Ewwww! C’mon, Douglas! Get a room!
So beware, conservatives. Identity thieves are active on your computer.
RedPhillips on 29 Jun 2009 at 11:44 pm #
Somewhat surprisingly, Dr. D. sided with conservatives and against his fellow interventionist, Charles Johnson, on the DHS memo issue. As I pointed out here.
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=3385
I think the DHS memo painted too broadly even for Dr. D. Had it just fingered paleocons, he probably would not have been concerned.
Weaver on 30 Jun 2009 at 7:46 am #
The great philosophical divide in the world seems eternally between the empire builders and the free, rooted conservatives. Douglas loves power rather than anything human or Godly – no surprise that he’s a monster (“clanless, lawless, hearthless”).
His love for Lincoln though is probably in part populism. He wants to appeal to a large audience and thus would embrace whomever the popular heroes are. HarrisonBergeron2, you come across as an honest man of honour, but a demagogue like Douglas wouldn’t honestly state his real heroes. He’d think himself too cunning for that. I mean, isn’t impossible to like both Burke and Lincoln?
Bill Fanning on 30 Jun 2009 at 1:39 pm #
Who is this guy? I’ve never heard of him.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Jun 2009 at 1:39 pm #
Red Phillips,
Yeah, that was a shocker. But instead of resorting to that stale joke about stopped clocks, I’ll just note that Douglas, like most second-rate minds, is not restrained by logical consistency.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Jun 2009 at 1:43 pm #
Weaver,
Power is what it’s all about for these people. They bask in the reflected glow of imperial might.
As for liking both Burke and Lincoln, I suppose there are “compartmentalized” minds out there (Bill Clinton, for example) that can hold two contradictory ideas (and ideals?) at the same time. Which might explain a lot of the muck we’re in these days.
Weaver on 30 Jun 2009 at 3:52 pm #
Clinton is supposed to be brilliant. He’s surely aware of his compartmentalizing. Clinton seems like the type who’ll say whatever’s popular so long as he can enjoy life.
Dr. Douglas is more dangerous because he doesn’t just want to be popular – he really likes power or else has a secret agenda of misleading conservatives (Orwellian fearmongering and imperial power worshiping to keep them from thinking about what they actually value).
If he were all about fun, he’d have supported Obama instead of McCain. Or actually… are the GOP groupies attractive? Maybe that’s the game, haha. Conservative girls are cuter.
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Bill Fanning,
American Power blog. He seems to be HB2′s arch nemesis.
He likes preaching death to all who reject democracy (esp Muslims) while calling us bigots for rejecting immigration and holding traditional values… We’re the evil bad guys while he’s the one shouting for violence. We’re the unpatriotic ones while he’s the one shouting for mass immigration and free trade. He thinks America is only of value because it’s a powerful multicultural democracy – any further attachment would be “bigoted”.
I wouldn’t know of Dr. Douglas were it not for HB2′s and his squabblings here.
Bede on 30 Jun 2009 at 6:50 pm #
Great post.
I think what truly gets at the heart of traditionalists versus neocons/Trotskyites is whether one is a propositionalist or not.
Does one support propositionalism (the notion that a country is just a shared set of ideas to which anyone can subscribe) or does one believe in the traditional understanding of ‘nation’ (as rooted in the Latin meaning “linked by blood”)?
Andrew T. on 03 Jul 2009 at 1:00 am #
Bede,
I think that the a major source of confusion is the fact that America is by far the CLOSEST to a propositional nation of any nation in the world.
Weaver on 08 Jul 2009 at 1:13 am #
America sure wasn’t founded as such.
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