Obama and the Politics of Crowds

The masses greeting the candidate on the trail are a sign of great unease.

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.

Because of his oratorical skills and his charisma, Obama is more frightening than McCain. Be afraid, be very afraid lest he leads us further astray while we cheer him on. But yet, perhaps, he will hasten the process of awakening those among us who seek liberty and reject the ever growing power of the state and its dominion over us.