Neoconservatives: American Exceptionalism

According to Patricia Owen’s neoconservatives try to make a stance to embody patriotic moral clarity and historic American values. Neoconservatives are living the ideology of American exceptionalism. The general beliefs are that the world is in black and white, good and evil, and that as Americans it is our job to fight the good fight. Neoconservatives aren’t afraid of military action and wish to convince others that action is exactly what America needs. They aren’t simply conservatives because embrace a philosophy of a noble lie. This mixes philosophy into politics by defining that the government can and should willfully lie for the greater good. The idea of moralism in politics is alarming because that moral vision makes isn’t shared by many Americans and that makes it hard to tell whats fact and whats fiction in our politics. …show more content…
Tocqueville investigates American idealism of the majority which finds that majority isn’t always the best to follow. The neoconservatives are trying to establish higher moral ground to make decisions for the American people of when and what truths they will tell in politics. Bellah’s connects religion and moral highground into Americans ideology which relates to neoconservatives entwining of religious justification and attempt and moral high ground. Szpunar investigates the types of American exceptionalism and the strands of military ideal. Neoconservativism seems to be similar to the missionary strand of the military-idea and their ideas seem to embody the American myth of origins as well as