This entire election was a textbook example of the Hegelian Dialectic.
Indeed.
Hegel has been enormously influential in the post-Enlightenment period. It seems to me he has two major lines of intellectual descent, the Nietzchean and the Marxian, and both are, to my mind, pernicious to the health of a decent, well-ordered society committed to the preservation of liberty under a rule of law of equal justice for all. To put it mildly.
The line of descent through Friederich Nietzche led to anarchism as further developed by such notable anarchists as Mikhail Bukhanin and Antonio Gramsci. The line of descent via Karl Marx led to communism, and to such notables as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, et al., and in contemporary times to Saul Alinsky.
Since I still don't know the first thing about BHO from his own mouth (and any inferences I might draw from his past radical associations are Verboten (unless you want to be labeled a racist), I cannot say whether he's read "the masters" on the above little list. But somehow I feel assured that his handlers, such as David Axelrod, are intimately familiar with the anarchist/socialist/communist literature.
Salamander, I just LOVE your tag line!!! LOLOL!
Really, the past century in politics, and sociology has been applied dialectics. Obama is their 'synthesis.' (they think)