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.
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.