The Right's Architecture of Power (probably a repost )

[midwayer]

This is a good summary which explains the structure & idealogues of the forces behind the neocon RW adgenda

The Right's Architecture of Power
By Tom Barry | April 22, 2004

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Ideology of Power
Contrary to prevailing academic notions that hold that extreme political movements always revert to moderation, the right wing has maintained an evolving set of radical ideologies and strategies. Despite its extremist ideologies and policy agendas, the right-wing’s architecture of power does not operate on the edges of mainstream society and politics but stands at the very center of our society. Like all social/political movements, the right wing’s institutional web and its populist constituencies seek political and social power. Over the past three decades the right-wing institutions and associated populist backlash movements have succeeded in undermining liberal policy frameworks and establishing its radicalism as accepted political discourse.

Lately, the right-wing’s architecture of power has reformulated its concept of power—no longer merely as holding political power but now as a core ideological concept. In other words, the right-wing’s architecture of power since the late 1990s not only seeks increased political power and influence but is propagating an ideology of power that holds that U.S. supremacy—cultural, moral, military, economic, and diplomatic—is a self-evident truth and right.


http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0404architecture.php

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Good analysis of all the interconnections

Thanks