But Leo Strauss was known as a leftist. A Trotskyite. Bush's advisors ARE disciples of Strauss, though, which should explain why Bush has tripled the size of the Federal govt. He was supposed to be a small-govt, states-rights conservative, but he has now spent more money on govt than all other presidents before him combined. Socializing American Society.

So, the "radical right" is really the "radical left." That's why a lot of us have come to realize we're being played by the "two-party system." There are no two parties. Just one, and they swing the White House and congress back and forth like a snake charmer, keeping us mesmerized with our imagined "power of the ballot box." What crap.

Strauss and his mentor didn't really have left/right politics. They used them as an ends to a means, but they really believed in elitism. The DUTY and RIGHT of some people to rule. Friedrich Nietzche's "superman" thinking. Strauss believed some people had an obligation to use their superior intellects to subjugate those around them. For the good of society and the species. And if they couldn't rule, then they owed it to society to destroy it. Hitler subscribed to the same philosophy. The people running Israel and Washington right now subscribe to it. Hitler's Master Race thinking leveling Beirut right now. Who'd've thunk it?