The emergence of this conservatism [in Mexico] incorporated into politics is tied to the neoconservative (neocons) movement in the United States during the last 20 years. They are distinguished by their criticism of any form of state intervention, their affinity for Christian values, their disaffection with all expression from society that doesn't have its origin in the family, their distrust in the intellectual, the unfamiliar, or the different.
This shows a remarkable ignorance of the subject. Neoconservatism was founded by a bunch of radical Jewish intellectuals (rather famously, I might add), so Zepeda Patterson's comments about Christian values, intellectualism, and "the different" (the phrase sounds better in Spanish) are completely, starkly, demonstrably incorrect. Also, I don't ever remember the neocons adopting any particular view of the family as a big part of their agenda. I imagine that Zepeda Patterson is talking about the rise of the Christian right and got his American conservative movements a little backwards. Given that he gets extremely exercised about American conservatism in this column and others, perhaps he should acquaint himself with it a little better.
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