Posted on 11/23/2023 11:57:32 PM PST by Noumenon
America and the Fourth Political Theory
There is no progression from the founding of the United States. Every step away from the founding principles of individual rights and freedom is not a progression, it is a degradation. The mistake that so many people have made is to believe that there has to be some form of updating the founding principles in order to move forward, but all of it goes backward. In one sense there is the recognition that the nation has modernized, but what it has done is drift backwards, towards the fiefdoms of Britain, the Lords and Commoners.
America, more than the United States, is a place of individual responsibility and individual rights. The fact that it becomes more difficult in a modern society to adhere to ancient ideals cannot be allowed to lead to a degradation of those principles, or it is a backward step.
Now, we see that our inventions, our innovations, our creations have stalled and died, because all of the effort, all of the intellectual horsepower that exists in abundance in free people is directed to either overthrowing individual sovereignty or defending it. Put that conflict aside, by whatever means available, and immediately that intellectual horsepower is used to establish the methods by which modernity is accommodated without diminishing individual liberty. That intellectual horsepower can be freed, then to work on inventions, innovations and creations.
I encourage the reader to take in the interview with Alexander Dugin at WRSA as he describes breaking from the West and the reasons for it. He correctly identifies that there are supporters in America for his point of view, but keep in mind, he is still affected by Russia’s Soviet past, though that is part of what his Fourth Political Theory is trying to distance itself from. I think it’s an important interview, because he recognizes that it’s the Russian future to reject the Western Globalist state, as we do here at the Substack, but he doesn’t quite recognize the invaluable aspect of making individual rights supreme against the state. That’s a bridge too far for him and he circles back to Hegelian precepts of working for the state, though infused with the right and sovereignty of the individual, but that those efforts ought to be put toward society rather than being free to roam and ultimately, whether desired or not, advance the society. Almost, but no cigar. This analysis of his Fourth Political Theory, would be criticized by him as being exactly what he rebels against which is a Western understanding of Russia.
Where he makes some strides toward what I would regard as the most important political evolution in history of individual rights equal to or greater than the power of the state, though borrowed from the Magna Carta in the chief aspects, he fears the rise of nationalism, which he considers racial or national supremacy. Coming from an admitted Eurasian perspective, it’s easy to see where he gets confused, having only the Third Reich and the US as models.
But the US has drifted significantly from its nationalistic peak of the Second World War into what can only be described now as involved in a cold civil war between the nationalist-populist faction and the globalist elite that have commandeered American politics and steered it toward authoritarian tyranny under the guise of some corrupt “democracy” that provides the political cover for globalist authoritarianism of the WEF and WHO. His natural allies, the nationalist-populists, or in more crude terms MAGA, who do not see the Fourth Political Theory as symbiotic, but nonetheless closer in goals and ambitions than any other system now in utilization.
It is, nonetheless, a peek into the rising political thought of the Russians, who must establish themselves as a powerful arbiter of individual freedom if they expect to advance, as they wish, on the global and economic stage. It’s our burden to have to fight back against the globalist authoritarianism that has gripped our corrupt elected officials, who veer almost irrationally toward Chinese neo-communism, except when one recognizes that it is not out of ideology, but corruption and the willingness to betray their country for cash.
The mere idea of Trump being re-elected in 2024 is bringing out the most desperate and dedicated communists in force and the next year will be one of tumultuous battle on all fronts, because in order for the Americans, with their ideas of freedom, to win they have to ride the only horse willing to enter the race and that’s Trump. Trump, however, is an idea, a means to an end and while he carries the nationalist-populist banner, he has to be the one to saddle. Keep in mind, it isn’t even Trump that infuriates the communists, it’s the idea that the people might choose someone outside of their prescribed radical leftists and compliant conservatives. Anyone else is a symbol of individuals with rights that can disobey their Marxist dictates and they will fight that with everything they have and anyone they can manipulate. That’s what you see when every university expresses their anti-Semitism with abandon, even though they have been funded and coaxed into communism by the Semites. The Marxists now have the Palestinians and the Islamists to provide the violent tendencies of every communist and Sharia Law fits quite well within the communist-authoritarian instinct. Individual rights, freedom and justice is completely incompatible with either one.
As an aside, every time I see someone like Mehdi Hasan in the above link, screaming about Trump being willing to send the DOJ against his political enemies, I think of Trump being prosecuted for non-crimes and just can’t fathom how he lacks the self-awareness to see his fears in real time. But we know it’s a diversion, a tactic, a communist tradition of projection. Biden even sent the FBI after his own military, who is now begging to have some of those white supremacists back and when they had more time on their hands from not having to chase child sex traffickers, he sent them after outraged parents at schoolboard meetings and Catholic Churches. Oh, to be so blind to one’s own sins!
But the US has drifted significantly from its nationalistic peak of the Second World War into what can only be described now as involved in a cold civil war between the nationalist-populist faction and the globalist elite that have commandeered American politics and steered it toward authoritarian tyranny under the guise of some corrupt “democracy” that provides the political cover for globalist authoritarianism of the WEF and WHO. His natural allies, the nationalist-populists, or in more crude terms MAGA, who do not see the Fourth Political Theory as symbiotic, but nonetheless closer in goals and ambitions than any other system now in utilization.
We're going to have to steer ourselves away from the nasty Hegelian Fourth Political Theory if we are to have any hope for our descendants. Dugin's attempt to reconcile Hegel's overarching notion of the State as supreme with individualism is a failure. And it fails because it ultimately subordinates the individual to the state, as it must. Given the events of the last 150 years or so, I think we've had quite enough of that.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking we must create a “new normal” post-”Covid”.
Throwing out our Constitutional roots would be the death to this country. Instead we must better fulfill, or return to, its founding vision.
But “The Constitution” is deader than dead, and has been for decades.
How does a constitutional regime, supposedly limited by the 10th Amendment, spend 6 trillion dollars per year ?
Zombie Constitutionalism is irrelevant when a “diverse” and progressive population is the majority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JCGavCmlT4
A major idea of the Forth Political Theory is the observation that for the three competing ideologies going into WW2: Fascism was defeated on the battlefield; Communism collapsed in 1989; and Progressive liberalism is left standing.
Western Globohomo Progressive liberalism looks to be near to it’s own collapse, as the elites of the West can no longer provide the basics like reliable, affordable electricity.
And they look to be doing the same for food production.
Once Globohomo falls, I can’t think of anything stupider than to re-create the constitutional structure that allowed them to seize power in the first place.
Because it hasn’t been followed and it has been grotesquely distorted.
We need to restore it, however, rather than playing into the globalists’ hands of upsetting the entire apple cart and paving the way for the something new they so want.
I completely agree the Founding Fathers created the high point and it’s been a tarnishing and a rotting ever since.
“Because it hasn’t been followed and it has been grotesquely distorted. “
That just sounds like “Real Constitutional Conservatism has never been tried.”
We don’t accept that sort of claim about socialism/communism.
Even with a culturally homogenous and white population, Constitutional conservatism lost control to progressives. There is no way it can work with the massive non-white “diversity” immigration that illegally invaded the country.
The globalists love you.
And the globohomos lie, every single time to sustain their corruption which relies on the chaos caused by their lies. A conspiracy of lies. Schiff and McConnell and Walter’s are all the same. Truth means nothing to any of them.
(The Federalist—circa 2022) The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned.
The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe.
Related - Pelosi’s Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police – now under formal investigation – stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated.
OBSERVATION - Pelosi has converted the Capitol police into her how personal stazi. The incidents are egregious. Should the democrats lose the house in November, the incoming republicans should clean house an have heads roll (figuratively). This is another step taking govt agencies and targeting protected activity of citizens and their representatives.
Related, Representative Louie Gohmert has accused the DoJ of intercepting mail from his constituents and illegally holding it. In one case, mail was withheld from the Congressman for over four months. “It is gravely concerning that since Congressional mail is constitutionally protected under the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, it could be routed, intentionally or not, through the highly partisan DOJ. This is felonious behavior.”
OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - These heinous Capitol police and DOJ actions point to a more aggressive move by the Biden/leftist govt against US citizens. If a CW2 scenario goes hot, the likelihood of active involvement by govt agencies skyrocket. It ceases to be a more “culture conflict” between Red and Blue, but hate-filled Biden’s Fed Govt vs Red States and American citizens in Red States.
That’s a new one.
Most of the time they denounce me as a fascist and a cheerleader for Putin.
I’m tired of “conservative” failure and uncontested Leftist victories.
Current “conservatism” is built on the same Enlightenment and Modernity BS just like liberalism, socialism, communism.
No wonder it fails.
Your position is that of a useful idiot on the right.
Exactly what they need right now.
I’m not the one supporting “Constitutional Conservatism”. which has nothing but one hundred years of losses.
And they love, love, love you for it!
Yep.
Some conservatives and some populists, in my view, if given the chance, will betray our founding principles to, in their view, advance some policy agenda they believe is “right”, in areas forcing individuals to make that “right” choice.
I believe God, not any state or its laws, is the supreme judge of our actions and our actions should be good on that basis, not to avoid going against secular law and even in the absence of any secular law requiring that right action.
Conservatives have to be careful of becoming another, American conservative, version of the Taliban - molding society to the “right” choices by “force of the law”.
Conservatives need a two prong approach to the moral good. The biggest prong must be in the social arena, changing hearts and minds, which is what Christian evangelism is supposed to be about, and the second prong has to be in defending all our individual rights, including the right to be “wrong”.
If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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