Crowding Obama

Crowding ObamaBy Thomas E. BrewtonThe mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator  Obama, bring to mind José 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:http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/the_masses_today/"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:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533157015082889.html?mod=djemTew"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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