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RE: The Fundamental Problem of Natural Law Theory and How Consciousness Based Rights Solves it
The Libertarian side of the GOP appears when the party is in the minority and disappears whenever the GOP has control. It is quite infuriating.
The Trump administration is going the way I thought it would. Trump likes making deals and his deals are better than past presidents.
On the ideological front, the GOP is fractured and does not see to have a coherent direction.
Meanwhile, the left has become even more insane than it already was.
As for poor Heidegger, I always found his philosophy to be too terse and convoluted to build upon.
Like many German scholars his work got mixed up with the insanity of war-time Germany.
Where you see fractured ideals in the GOP, I see an opportunity to reform them. The libertarian voices are the most consistent. They will continue to gain ground in the party, as they continue to lose ground to the communists in the DNC.
I read an article in The Austrian yesterday about Ron Paul's political career. What the Republican establishment, and the Bush's in particular, did in the late 90s to block his political career was really quite heinous. They even went so far as to convince a Democrat to switch sides to undermine his bid for the nomination. Yet, 15 years later, we had the Tea Party.
The reason it appears that the libertarian-minded within the GOP seem to always get betrayed is that the establishment still resists that. The establishment GOP still has a lot of power. I have no illusions about that. But we are gaining ground in that party. A few decades ago we only had Ron Paul. Now we have Rand Paul, Ted Cruz (not perfect, but an improvement), Nunez, Mike Lee, and many others. The constitutionalist/libertarian faction is still far from being dominant, but it is gaining ground.
As for Heidegger, I find his ideas highly useful. They provide a means of understanding how people are blinded against viewing alternative models of reality, thus stymying constructive discourse. His work is also a reminder that it's easy to fall into the trap of being captured by a projection ourselves.
Ironically, his affiliation with the Nazi party was itself an example of this. If he'd applied his own critiques in the Question Concerning Technology to the Nazi government, I think he may have had a change of heart.