Machiavelli is the Father of Americans

Jun 13, 2007 09:17

American politicians share a common political morality with the average American. The morality judges right and wrong based only upon whether a policy is a success or failure, and is how American politicians destroyed the original government rooted in religion, and why the average American does not dispute what their government has done.

It explains their obsession with terrorism and conspiracy as if the two concepts had recently been invented. "All new states originate in force, hence in revolutionary violence, their founders are, and by definition must be, 'criminals.'” Politicians are fervently consolidating their power to achieve legitimacy and until then remain as criminals in the eyes of some. To prevent a counter movement that would restore the original government, they treat all dissenters as illegitimate, all their efforts at change as terrorism, and all related discussion and planning as conspiracy.

They succeed only because law schools teach "legal realism or positivism that identifies the just with the legal." Having changed laws they can now accuse their opposition of illegal and unjust actions.

The legitimacy of the regime is based exclusively on their success, regardless of the method. "The ultimate criterion of “virtue”, as of praise and blame, is success." Which is why they find it acceptable to negotiate with a successfully created terrorist state.

This poses a conflict between the amoral politicians and a morally rooted people. A man may be a good law abiding citizen or a righteous man, but under an amoral government he is not both. The distinction between the good man and the good citizen is that "The good citizen is of course the patriot who fights for his country and obeys its laws. His country, however, and therefore its laws, may be unjust – from the traditional point of view. But this means that the good citizen may be a bad man."

Moral confusion within religion has broken down this distinction by repeated preaching of submitting to lawful authority. Consequently there is no regime on earth repugnant to any Judeo-Christian religion including the Palestinian Authority.

It may be said that Machiavelli succeeded at propagating amorality within religion as well as government. "Machiavelli is in fact the first philosopher to contend that democracy is the best regime," which is now a new religious dogma, but is an aberration of history.

Machiavelli and the Decay of Western Civilization, Prof. Paul Eidelberg,
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