http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/cheney-cruz-and-the-new-911-neocon-freak-out.html
Chait does a nice job of breaking down the symptoms of acute neoconservatism.
The interesting one is "serious" combined with all the other traits.
Neo-cons refer to their political opponents as "unserious" and that "serious" people agree with them. Perhaps a better word than serious would be severe. Because there is little that is serious about the half-baked, knee-jerk, simplistic way that neo-cons see the world.
Neo-cons can't make threat differentiation; they can't distinguish Sunni from Shia or Wahhabist from Alawite. All they see is "bad guys" who must be addressed with violence.
That's a profoundly stupid, cloistered way of looking at the world.
It is the exact opposite of "serious".
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