The Hegelian Dialectic- Problem, reaction, solution

Washington DC is not a state or city, it's a foreign country in United States of America. -- Federal USA Government Control problem, reaction, solution. The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.