Ann Coulter - Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

GUILTY

IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS,
THEYD BE REPUBLICANS

GODLESS

HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL
(IF YOU MUST)

TREASON

SLANDER

HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

Copyright 2011 by Ann Coulter

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For Peter Thiel

2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.

3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.

7 He shouted at the top of his voice, What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In Gods name dont torture me!

8 For Jesus had said to him, Come out of this man, you impure spirit!

9 Then Jesus asked him, What is your name? My name is Legion, he replied, for we are many.

M ARK 5:29

T he demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. It is the nihilistic mob of the French Revolution; it is the revolutionaries who seized control of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century; it is the Maoist gangs looting villages and impaling babies in China; it is the Ku Klux Klan terrorizing Republicans and blacks in the South; it is the 1992 Los Angeles riot that left fifty dead and did $1 billion of damage after the first Rodney King verdict; it is the bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; it is the masked hoodlums smashing up Seattle when bankers came to town; it is the 500,000 illegal aliens marching under a foreign flag in Los Angeles; it is throngs of Islamic fanatics attending the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinis funeral, tearing his body out of its coffin; it is left-wing protesters destroying property and attacking delegates at the Republican National Conventions.

Everything else changes, but mobs are always the same. A mob is an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the group. Intoxicated by messianic goals, the promise of instant gratification, and adrenaline-pumping exhortations, mobs create mayhem, chaos, and destruction, leaving a smoldering heap of wreckage for their leaders to climb to power.

The Democratic Party is the party of the mob, irrespective of what the mob represents. Democrats activate mobs, depend on mobs, coddle mobs, publicize and celebrate mobsthey are the mob. Indeed, the very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose. As so frequently happens when a crowd goes wild, historian Erik Durschmied says, there is always one who shouts louder and thereby appoints himself as their leader. Those are the people we call elected Democrats.

The Democrats playbook doesnt involve heads on pikesas yetbut uses a more insidious means to incite the mob. The twisting of truth, stirring of passions, demonizing of opponents, and relying on propagandistic images in lieu of ideasthese are the earmarks of a mob leader.

Over and over again, one finds the Democrats manipulating the mob to gain power. It is official Democratic policy to appeal to the least-informed, weakest minded members of the public. Their base consists of soccer moms, actresses, felons, MSNBC viewers, aging Red-diaper babies, welfare recipients, heads-up-their-asses billionaires, and government workerswho can never be laid off. The entire party gave up on attracting the votes of white men decades ago. Its easier to round up votes by frightening women about assault weapons and promising excellent free health care to nonEnglish speakers. Yes, a free health care system that is so superior that Democrats exempt themselves and their friends from being in it.

Liberals frighten people about their health care in order to stampede through ObamaCare. They claim the Earth is overheating in order to seize taxpayer money for solar panels and compact fluorescent light-bulbs. They call out union thugs to force politicians to accede to insane benefits packages. They stage campaigns of calumny to get their way on gay marriage. Faddish ideas that would never have occurred to anyone fifty years agoor even twenty years agoare suddenly foisted on the rest of us by the liberal mobs.

Although the left in America is widely recognized as hysterical, unreasonable, and clueless, the root cause of these traits has generally been neglected. More than a century ago, Gustave Le Bon perfectly captured the liberal psychological profile in his 1896 book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Le Bona French physician, scientist, and social psychologistwas the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. His groundbreaking book The Crowd paints a disturbing picture of the behavior of mobs. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini used his book to learn how to incite a mob. Our liberals could have been Le Bons study subjects.

Even the left-wing Guardian has admitted that Le Bons study of crowd behavior was possibly the most influential work of psychology ever written. Presumably recognizing themselves in his psychological profile, liberals have recently tried to undermine Le Bon.

They have complained that he merely articulated the propertied classes fear of the mob. Who likes mobs? Renters? Window manufacturers? Rope salesmen? Liberals also objected that Le Bon did not hold the police accountable for a mobs behaviorwhich is like demanding that we take into account the length of a rape victims skirt.

It was all the usual claptrap, but the piercing truth of Le Bons study speaks for itself. Liberals wouldnt go after him if, even a century later, his theories didnt still ring true. All the characteristics of mob behavior set forth by Le Bon in 1895 are evident in modern liberalismsimplistic, extreme black-and-white thinking, fear of novelty, inability to follow logical arguments, acceptance of contradictory ideas, being transfixed by images, a religious worship of their leaders, and a blind hatred of their opponents.

Many of liberals peculiarities are understandable only when one realizes that they are a mob. For example, a crowds ability to grasp only the simplest ideas is reflected in the interminable slogans. Liberals have boatloads of them: Bush Lied, Kids Died! Our Bodies, Our Selves! No Blood for Oil! No Justice, No Peace! Save the Whales; Love Your Mother (Earth); Ban the Bomb; Make Love, Not War; Friends Dont Let Friends Vote Republican; Diversity Is Our Strength! Save the Planet! Pro-Choice, Pro-Child! Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home! Co-Exist! Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? Dissent Is Patriotic! War Is Not the Answer! Go Green! Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege! Imagine Peace; Celebrate Diversity! Beat the Bushes for Peace! No Nukes! Give Peace a Chance; Think Globally/Act Locally; No Tax Cuts for the Rich; Save the Planet! Venceremos! One, Two, Three, Four, We Dont Want Your FKing War! Bush = Hitler; Hell No, We Wont Go! Off the Pig! Eat the Rich! Die Yuppie Scum! Peace Now! We Are the Ones Weve Been Waiting For! Solidarity Forever! Bring America Home! You Cant Hug a Child with Nuclear Arms; Meat Is Murder! Books Not Bombs! Fight the Power! Yes We Can!