Posted on 12/28/2010 10:06:06 PM PST by RINOS ARE RADICALS
“ALL POWER CORRUPTS” Lord Acton
Everyone of us are prone to protect our own ideas and position. We begin with principles but as soon as we achieve just a little power, influences begin to manipulate us and the corruption begins to creep in. NO politician can live up to our expectations over time. We remain comparatively uncorrupted over the same time frame, not experiencing the same temptations as do they.
Washington politicians have it the worst. Living away from the moral and conservative influences of their friend’s and supporters, they are overwhelmed with temptation as no other; pride, money, power, flattery, position; wanting to be liked by the press, the bureaucrats, legislative colleagues; wanting to please their spouse and children who want THEM to be liked by others so THEY will be liked by others, eventually to be motivated by their own legacy.
This is why even a conservative hero like Reagan was far more principled and far more conservative in the beginning of his first term than at the end of his second; why one time conservative legislators are today’s RINOs and why yesterday’s conservative Justices of the SCOTUS are today’s moderates. “The temptations are too powerful for someone who already has a fairly large ego anyway, to be uninfluenced.
Pigs don’t know pigs stink. After a while a once conservative senator doesn’t notice he’s become a RINO. McCain really does think he’s a conservative. In his own mind, he compares himself to the others that he works with every day in the Washington and the national politically liberal cesspool. It’s human. The conservatives we respect most are fairly new to national politics, or they have VERY strong personal religious commitments. We’ll see if their conservatism can survive it.
Makes for a strong rationale for term limits for ANY federal job, elected, appointed or otherwise.
Another point to my thesis, is how the GOP refuses to close elections to Republicans only in many states allowing the unions and liberal groups the power to select our candidate.
The goal of the statist is to have no real choice on election day, they win either way which was the case in 2008.
good article.
Thanks please pass it on...
You mean primary elections, yes?
Well put.
Well yes, I went on to say that the left chooses our candidate and if I meant the primary, well then I would be a very,very bad person.
Sorry for confusion.
Therefore your post brilliantly explains, IMHO, why the GOP is a useless political apparatus in the present time. They seek compromise, while the Left does not. One cannot play by Aristotle's rules when the other team is using Hegel's!
A political application of Hegelian principles might be for a politician to declare, or even actually cause, a crisis or a problem that only he can solve by offering the only apparent solution!
The Hegelian Dialectic is the philosophical precursor of the Marxist Dialectic. Hegel is the strategist behind Alinsky's tactics.
The RINOS are fighting to be in charge of the mess and get more of the Loot. Not to change it.
It looks like you are no longer falling for the good cop bad cop routine.
I believe that socialism will undo the human progress that Capitalism has brought to mankind. Your examination of the Hegelian Dialectic is like a scientist looking at a killer virus through his microscope. The Hegelian Dialectic is that killer virus that will so disrupt man’s necessary progress for survival, that man’s future is in great danger. For only through the wealth of Capitalism will come those innovations that ensure man’s survival.
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Even at 5 years old, my little brother was smarter than the average GOP member. He and his friend were arguing and his friend told him, "I'm going to hit you, but don't you hit mr back".
My brother instinctively knew this was not a good proposition and assured him that if it came to hitting, he would get his licks in. Today's GOP seems to think it is an acceptable "compromise".
Liberalism isn't the only menatl disease in our politics - the GOP seems every bit as deranged and suicidal.
It's a good rational not just for term limits, but for limiting the amount of time any representative can spend in DC. Three months a year should be plenty of time to get a budget together. Most legislation is completely unnecessary--really, what's the use of passing a few thousand new laws per year, when we're not enforcing the laws already on the books? The rest of the time can be spent back at the district, around those whom the representative is elected to represent.
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No, I am embarrassed to say, I have been one of those drones until recently.
Hegel's insights were not some diabolical world take-over plot, but a look into the human mind, available as tools to thinkers of any political party or belief system.
It has always amazed me that the official GOP, in addition to an almost complete denial of an ideological base, refuses to use anything but day-to-day thinking. Deal makers, not policy shapers.
The party of Big Business? No. More like the party that operates like a weather dependent, event-driven hot dog cart vendor who isn't too sure of the worth of the product and can't figure out on which street or parking lot to best set up shop. In addition, GOP campaign PR and Advertising, under the direction of "men of genius" like Karl Rove, at a cost of many hundreds of millions, would disgrace a used car dealer in a town of 5,000.
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