The essence of the modern Left, from Lenin to the Clintons, is a contempt for ordinary people - for their blindness to their own interests, for their inability to see that society needs radically reorganizing, for their reluctance to let themselves be shoveled around like truckloads of concrete in order to accomplish that reorganization, for their degraded tastes in everything from food to mode of transportation, for their selfish determination to hold on to the rewards of their own labor rather than hand over those rewards to people who believe themselves wiser, for their absurd attachment to outmoded prehistoric concepts like "family," "nation," and "liberty."

Lenin: "It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed." And who is to do the rationing? Why, we, the enlightened ones, the anointed ones - the elite! Mrs. Clinton: "It takes a village to raise a child." God forbid the task should be left to - ugh! - a family. You need a community... with leaders... And who will those leaders be? Guess who.