Understanding The Hegelian Dialect Is To Understand Our Slow Road Towards Tyranny

Kjos Ministries ^ | October 2005 | Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

The political landscape in America over the past several decades can be explained simply through the lens of the Hegelian Dialectic.

Thesis (Liberal Agenda) Anti Thesis(Republican politicians) Synthesis(Liberals along with RINOS pass statist agenda).

This is why the establishment Republicans fight tooth and nail for candidates like Mike Castle, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain; they are the ones who will help deliver the synthesis in the name of compromise which in the end strips us of more and more of our liberties.

The last thing the GOP leadership needs are more Conservatives who will make it much more difficult for them to hide their true intentions, greed, power and ideology.(Attacks on Demint perfect example).

As long as McConnell, Cornyn and Boehner have enough RINOS around they can pose as phony Conservatives while blaming the so called mavericks for voting along liberal lines.( They do this through a RINO voting rotation).

Notice that over the years you hear very little of suspended or pulled chairmanships from those who vote in direct opposition to the Constitution, constituents and party leadership on major pieces of legislation.

No, in fact during the primaries, these are the same politicians that the leadership in many cases pour millions of dollars along with other resources to defeat the same type of Conservatives they claim to be.

In many ways, I believe since Bush 41, we have had a one party system, that acts out this process over and over again stripping Americans of more and more of their liberties and freedoms while claiming compromise and moderation.

Please take a look at the link I think they do a much better job of explaining the slow process of spreading the statist agenda.

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

[DWar]

“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.

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

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.

[Reddy]

good article.

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

Thanks please pass it on...

[DWar]

GOP refuses to close elections to Republicans

You mean primary elections, yes?

[Clock King]

Well put.

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

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.

[wheresmyusa]

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[Kenny Bunk]

In the Hegelian model, there is actually scant room for "synthesis," or "compromise." Rather, one point of view will overcome an opposing POV by logical force.

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.

[screaminsunshine]

The RINOS are fighting to be in charge of the mess and get more of the Loot. Not to change it.

[screaminsunshine]

It looks like you are no longer falling for the good cop bad cop routine.

[jonrick46]

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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[microgood]

To understand Hegel, you have to read The Phenomenology of Mind. The writers of this article obviously did not. Hegel was a true philosopher, and was trying to understand how the human mind worked and how humans interacted socially. He had no agenda beyond the acquisition of knowledge and trying to describe how humans thought and interacted with each other. Some of his disciples (Neitzsche, Freud, and Marx) had an agenda. He did not, except human understanding.

I studied 19th Century German philosophers and have a degree in Philosophy. Hegel was brilliant in advancing philosophy around the human mind.

At the societal level, he believed, that there was a social consciousness (which he called Absolute Spirit) that was kind of an aggregation of individual consciousnesses in a given society, and the way it solved problems was the same as the way individual consciousnesses did, using the dialectic method. That is where Freud got the notion of the id, ego, and superego.

This guy, although an idealist, posed many questions and provided answers that have still not been addressed in any other way (my favorite was the notion of how we became aware of our own existence in a societal setting).

I remember our professor (who was brilliant) spent an entire week on two sentences of the Phenomenology of Mind to allow us to understand where this guy was coming from. And noone to this day has provided better theories on many of these issues. He was almost Einstein brilliant in his approaches to understanding and modeling human consciousness and behaviour at the societal level, but because of his idealism, was unable to convert it into anything that could change the world, except to describe it.

In his defense, noone has thus far been able to change basic human nature through understanding for any significant period of time. And that was never his intention anyway.

In Phenomenology, he analyzed art and culture throughout history to describe mans evolution of his own consciousness based on how he perceived his place in nature and how the dialectic process advanced man's understanding of the world around him, as well as how man interacted socially. His analysis of the Sphinx (half man, half animal), was just one of many fascinating insights he had in the evolution of human consciousness.

[trebb]

They seek compromise, while the Left does not. One cannot play by Aristotle's rules when the other team is using Hegel's!

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.

[exDemMom]

Makes for a strong rationale for term limits for ANY federal job, elected, appointed or otherwise.

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.

[phockthis]

sfl

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

No, I am embarrassed to say, I have been one of those drones until recently.

[Kenny Bunk]

See Post 15 above.

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.