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To: carranza2 who wrote (150903)	11/3/2004 3:32:22 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The origin of the Democratic Delusion can be found in the movie "A Face in the Crowd", directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. In it, a talented, charming con man becomes the darling of the country and western crowd. He hooks up with plutocrats to help them sell their candidate with folksy humor and rustic platitudes. He becomes drunk with ability to manipulate the masses, and in the end is stopped by the woman who loves him, but cannot stand what he has become, by catching him boasting of his manipulation on camera, and broadcasting it live. It is all there, the presumption that only manipulating the masses could account for the success of the "elitist" party; that the social issues are just a ruse to alienate people from the urban liberals; that old- fashioned values are obsolete and even harmful in the modern age, which calls for the Nanny State.......