“Because they are marching us the road to tyranny. They say goes left, right, left, right.”
In modern America, political conversation often feels like a marching drill: left, right, left, right. We’re told to pick a side, join the chant, and keep in step. But beneath this ritual of team rivalry lies a deeper pattern—one that unites supposed “opposites” for the benefit of a ruling class, while ordinary citizens are divided, distracted, and slowly dispossessed of their freedoms.
The Hegelian Dialectic and the Uniparty Trap
The Hegelian dialectic is the process of advancing history and society through a repeated cycle: thesis (the status quo), antithesis (opposition), and synthesis (resolution, often by elite design). This process isn’t just an abstract philosophy—it’s a living strategy of control.
In America’s case, the dialectic plays out through our two-party system. Left and right perform their public conflict, but when it comes to issues of war, banking, surveillance, and corporate power, both sides quietly move in lockstep. The “Overton Window”—the range of ideas considered acceptable—slides inexorably toward more centralized power, more surveillance, more debt, and more erosion of civil liberties. The public, watching the show, fails to realize that the stage and the script are both controlled by interests above and behind the parties.
Bastiat’s Warning and the Legalization of Plunder
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
— Frédéric Bastiat
Bastiat saw it coming in 19th-century France, but his words fit 21st-century America like a glove. When the looting of public wealth and the manipulation of the law become institutionalized, it’s no longer called theft—it’s called policy, regulation, or “the rule of law.” Our political and legal systems, instead of restraining corruption, become the instruments for legitimizing and perpetuating it.
Consider how financial crashes, bailouts, and wars always benefit a certain class—the international bankers, defense contractors, and the corporations that “grow up around the banks.” Laws are written not to restrain plunder, but to legalize and direct it. The result is a society where the machinery of state power—military, monetary, legal—serves those who already possess outsized influence, while everyone else is kept compliant through the myth of left vs. right.
Jefferson’s Prophecy and the Banking-Corporate Nexus
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… Banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…”
— Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s words ring prophetic. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, America has experienced wave after wave of inflation, deflation, and debt expansion—each crisis strengthening the hand of central banks and the megacorporations attached to them. When crisis strikes, the solution is always the same: more centralization, more debt, more laws in the name of “security.”
But this isn’t just about economics. The alliance of banking and corporate power rewrites the very rules of society. The law is no longer a shield for the innocent—it’s a weapon for the powerful. The “uniparty” in Washington—regardless of the label—serves this alliance, not the constitutional republic they swore to uphold.
Destruction Capitalism: War, Rebuilding, and the Plunder Machine
War is no longer fought for security or self-defense; it’s business. Destruction capitalism is the model: destroy, then rebuild—both at the taxpayer’s expense, but always for private profit. Every new conflict or “crisis” creates contracts, loans, and reconstruction schemes for the same network of insiders. Each emergency (whether war, pandemic, or financial panic) becomes a pretext to further centralize control, plunder wealth, and move the Overton Window a little farther from liberty.
Manufactured Morality: Patriotic Legalism and Kohlberg’s Trap
What keeps this system in place? It’s not just force—it’s manufactured consent, a morality taught in our schools, media, and even churches.
Kohlberg’s moral theory describes a stage of development (often called “law-and-order morality”) where people equate what is legal with what is moral. This is where most patriotic Americans find themselves—believing that “supporting law and order” and obeying authority is the height of virtue. But when laws are written by the plunderers, law-and-order becomes a trap: it teaches citizens to defend their own dispossession, to police their neighbors for questioning the system, and to see obedience as patriotism.
The result is a society with a “Stockholm syndrome” relationship to authority: loyal to the very system that exploits them, and hostile to anyone who tries to show them the man behind the curtain.
What Is To Be Done?
- Break the spell: Recognize that left vs. right is often a distraction from the real structure of power.
- Return to first principles: Insist on constitutional checks and balances, the original meaning of law, and the primacy of natural rights.
- Expose the nexus: Refuse to let the language of patriotism, security, or morality be used to justify lawless plunder.
- Promote higher moral development: Encourage critical thinking, conscience, and universal principles—beyond mere obedience to law or party.
- Follow the money: Track how every “crisis” is used to consolidate wealth and power for a few, at the expense of many.
Conclusion
The march “left, right, left, right” leads not to freedom but to tyranny, unless citizens wake up to the way the game is played. As Bastiat warned, as Jefferson foresaw, and as every generation learns the hard way: when the law becomes an instrument of plunder, only a principled and vigilant people can restore it to justice.
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Let’s not be marched down the road to tyranny—no matter what slogans are shouted along the way.
