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I think it does have a conservative bias. As a libertarian, I should agree with half of the right-wing ideas and half of the left-wing ones, yet by these definitions, I'm about 69% conservative, which isn't accurate. I would agree with the Old Right about that often, but the neocons have turned everything upside down. I agree more with the New Left than with the New Right. The New Right favors a larger government, relativism (i.e. whatever the majority wants is right), equality of outcome (albeit not in an economic sense), collectivism (again, not for egalitarian purposes) and believes that law dictates culture and that people are malleable. In other words, I agree with only 2 neocon ideas while agreeing with 8 Old Right ones. I agree with 3 of the above liberal ideas.
Right-wing propagandists use paleoconservative and paleolibertarian rhetoric to try to portray themselves as defenders of at least a degree of freedom, but in reality, they combine a non-egalitarian command economy with blind militarism, resulting in neoconservatism being a mild form of national socialism. That is why the poster (I can't recall who it was) who stated that the GOP, since 2001, is closer to the neo-fascist British National Party than to the UK's Conservative Party is correct. However, I should point out that when paleoconservatives form an unofficial coalition with economic populists, my level of agreement with them drops substantially.
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