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• Gustave Le Bon: Late 19th century French physician, social psychologist and author of "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind." His work was the genesis of Ann Coulter's book.

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• “All the characteristics of mob behavior set forth by Le Bon in 1895 are evident in modern liberalism--simplistic, 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.”

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• “Liberals despise the rule of law because courts interfere with the ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful, but it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone. The only purpose of government -as opposed to the state of nature - is to replace 'might makes right' with a system of justice”

• “A mob can't be fired up by promises of gradual, incremental change based on individual rights and voluntary transactions. There must be promises of grand social transformation overnight.”

• “The psychologist Le Bon says the appeal of children's testimony to a mob is that children are easy to manipulate. "It would be better to decide the fate of an accused person by the toss of a coin," he says, "than, as has been so often done, by the evidence of a child."”

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• the federal government, via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, forced politically correct lending policies on the banks—policies that were attacked by Republicans but ferociously defended by Democrats—and that the banks’ suicidal loans were then bundled into mortgage-backed securities and dispersed throughout the entire financial system, which poisoned the economy, bringing down powerful institutions, such as Lehman Brothers, and destroying innumerable families’ financial portfolios.

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• All the characteristics of mob behavior set forth by Le Bon in 1895 are evident in modern liberalism—simplistic, 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.

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• It is official Democratic policy to appeal to the least-informed, weakest minded members of the public.

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• “Dissent is patriotic” only when a Republican is president, and we must have “respect for the office” only when a Democrat is president.

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• The twisting of truth, stirring of passions, demonizing of opponents, and relying on propagandistic images in lieu of ideas—these are the earmarks of a mob leader.

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• There are three main elements to putting an idea in a crowd: affirmation, repetition, and contagion.

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• Perhaps conservatives aren’t looking for a savior on the ballot because they already have one.

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• Michael Oakeshott’s rule: “The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.”

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• “Liberal” is the definition of people who can’t grasp if/then forms of logic.

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• Both Bush and Obama went to Ivy League schools, had traditional families with a wife and two girls, claimed to be Christians, said Islam is a religion of peace, kept Guantánamo open, killed civilians in the war on terrorism, bailed out banks, opposed gay marriage, and sought amnesty for illegal aliens. Their most readily apparent difference is that Obama knows how to pronounce “nuclear” correctly and Bush knows how to pronounce “Pakistan.”

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1. Ann Coulter (Author)

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• Dewey: 320

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• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics
• Books › Nonfiction › Current Events

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• Ann Coulter: Ann's opinions of the day.

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