Tony said:
I have recently tried to steer clear of the "left/right" dichotomy because I see it as generally useless, but nonetheless, I would say that Bush is just as "right" as these people. The "constitution" party is just more outspoken about their true intentions.
That could not be more untrue. People who support the Constitution Party by and large
despise George Bush. See, for example, Thomas Fleming and the crew at
Chronicles magazine. (They have a web site but I do not have it bookmarked. Hold on to your hat if you read there -- these guys are highly intellectual and credentialed -- not at all stupid -- which makes what they put out all the more chilling.)
Fleming and other so-called Southern Agrarians are usually far-right Catholics or high church Xian, and they are isolationists who bitterly object to Bush's foreign policy. (See the CP platform on foreign policy in the link given in this thread.) They are also racists who lament that no one stands up for white interests, and they want to close our borders -- Bush's amnesty program makes them sick. They feel we need to maintain a white, European culture, and they do not want any more Hispanics; they'd like to kick most of them out. One of their major bugaboos is immigration and what they see as the pollution of "real" American culture that immigrants bring.
They hate large corporations such as Wal-Mart or McDonald's. (Indeed, Mickey D's is something of an
idee fixe for Fleming, who thinks Americans are deluded that Mexicans can be assimilated just because they eat Big Macs.) They would like to halt some technological progress that would carry us further into modernity.
Actually, the Southern Agrarians such as Fleming, or Samuel Francis (fired by
The Washington Times for overtly racist associations) share many views of the anti-globalization left. It is almost a matter of going so far right that one hooks up with those way left.
These folks hate the Enlightenment, and some will actually deny that speech should be entirely free. Fleming, for example, adheres to 19th cnetury papal pronouncements condemning classically liberal values. As far as they are concerned, the Enlightenment is responsible for Communism which is not all that distinguishable from liberal democracies, which lead to Communism eventually. For many, a Catholic constitutional monarchy is the ideal form of govt.
Really, whatever else is true, these people are
not remotely lovers of George Bush, and they make him look like a flaming lefty. If you do make your way to the
Chronicles site, you'll find they are CP supporters, and that they hate Bush just about as much as does Michael Moore.
