Alberto Gonzales epitomised a key aspect of neoconservatism, and, although there is that, I don’t just mean lying on principle to the common herd, apparently defined as including the Congress of the United States. Gonzales was a key figure in the consolidation of the Bush Dynasty’s base of people who could speak English, but who refused to do so, knowing that unbridled capitalism cannot function without unrestricted immigration, so that an America dedicated to the former was just going to have to put up with their adamantly Spanish-speaking ways.
In the same way, one of David Cameron’s new best friends’ prices for getting out the vote for people almost as posh as the Bushes will be the right to enforce in their localities the use of languages barely spoken even by their own communities’ younger generation, certainly not spoken by the majority of people in the areas in question, and not spoken by anyone there whose English would not be perfectly adequate to the tasks at issue, perhaps other than those culturally constrained from undertaking such tasks in the first place.
“Hispanics are the new conservatives”, the American neocons pretend even while glorifying and promoting exactly the economic system that destroys those Hispanic values most obviously fitting this bill, values that would in fact lead in practice to social democracy. The same in true, albeit to a lesser extent due to the general absence of Christianity (by definition including the Christian recapitulation of Greece and Rome, which saved that Classical heritage in every sense of salvation), of the Asians who are allegedly the new conservatives, and the new Conservatives, in Britain.
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