Crowding Obama
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Posted: 11/02/08
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Crowding Obama
By Thomas E. Brewton
The 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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