"...an utterly corrupt new religion called environmentalism..."
If the history of this planet's climate over millions of years is any guide, we are about to enter a new ice age.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country.
Crowding Obama
By Tom Brewton (10/31/08)
The mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator Obama, bring to mind Jose Ortega y Gasset's 'The Revolt of the Masses.'
Street mobs and mass demonstrations are a product of socialism, beginning with the Parisian mobs who assaulted the Bastille on July 14, 1789, then dragged government ministers from their homes and hanged them from the lamp posts.
Everything about these mass demonstrations is anathema to the Constitution's Bill of Rights, which was intended to protect individual political liberties from the power of the mob. Today, liberal-progressive Federal judges justify abrogation of individual liberties, particularly property rights, by reference to mob sentiment.
A fundamental part of Senator Obama's campaign rests upon confiscating people's wealth and redistributing it to the lower income elements of the mob.
In The Masses Today, I noted:
Writing in 1929, José Ortega y Gasset described the new phenomenon emerging in post-World War I Europe. The masses had come to believe themselves entitled to the technological benefits of civilization without understanding or preserving the cultural underpinning of that civilization.
That, unfortunately, is applicable to the United States in the post-1960s student anarchist upheavals. Senator Obama and his supporters are dead sure that everyone is entitled to whatever he wants, at government expense, and moreover, that we can afford it. This without understanding the economic realities that have produced what we have already.
Along the same lines, Fouad Ajami writes in the Wall Street Journal:
The affluent will have to pay for the programs promised the poor. The redistribution agenda that runs through Mr. Obama's vision is anathema to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and the hedge-fund managers now smitten with him. Their ethos is one of competition and the justice of the rewards that come with risk and effort. All this is shelved, as the devotees sustain the candidacy of a man whose public career has been a steady advocacy of reining in the market and organizing those who believe in entitlement and redistribution.
For more observations regarding José Ortega y Gasset's analysis of the 20th century's masses, see The Sordidness of Liberal-Progressivism.
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Native of Louisiana; graduated from Louisiana State University in 1956. While there had the good fortune to study political science under Eric Voegelin and Constitutional law under Walter Berns.
Graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1958, then worked in the Wall Street financial community for thirty years. After retiring, surrounded by liberals in Scarsdale, New York, began writing op-ed pieces for local newspapers and essays for my children, aiming to counter the barbarism of liberal-socialism. From this came my website, The View From 1776 ( http://www.thomasbrewton.com/ ). A staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
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