I’m reminded of the story of a CPA who black-balled his number one business client (a restauranteur) to a membership in the country club because he refused to donate to National Public Radio while funding the high school cheer-leading camp.
                Vassar Bushmills recently wrote that the modern American Left is more fascist in aspect than communist, in that they have developed a taste for the finer things Lenin always eschewed. It is true, you know, for it does seem American “socialism” is based more on denying wealth and the finer things to the masses, than in actually stripping it from public memory. Germany, 1938, not Russia, 1930, comes closer to defining what we are seeing from modern libralism today.   
                But Bushmills went further and put a face on it. He stated that American elitism (vs the elites) is one part German, in the notion that a perfect society can be engineered and managed from the top, one part French, in that the top should adorn itself in the accoutrements of nobility, and be above and outside the laws set for commoners, and finally, one part Mexican bandit, quoting the infamous bandito, Calvera, when he said, “If God had not intended them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.”
                More than Boss Tweed, more than P T Barnum, more even than the Clintons, we feel that Al Gore personifies this New American Bandit, for in his various manifestations of the global warming hoax, he has shone that, unlike Calvera’s peons, the sheep in America run very high up in the educational, professional and financial food chain.

Bernard Chumm