Jacob L. Talmon,
who wrote seminal works on totalitarianism, noted that there is a
collective mindset (which originates with Jean Jacques Rousseau) that
sees democracy as only meaningful if the individual’s interest is
aligned with the collective interest. Talmon coined the term
“totalitarian democracy” to define this concept. Totalitarian democracy
as an idea is the progenitor of Stalinism and the excesses of the
French Revolution. It is an idea that is embodied in the statism of the
Obama administration. Totalitarian democracy is seen in the New Jewish
Agenda, which perceives collectivism as the solution to social
problems. There is no room in this philosophy for an individual who
stands at variance with the collective. Just as there is no room in
these synagogues for those who do not agree that the collective will of
the majority should define and limit the political interests of the
individual.
That is the lesson of what happened in Florida. That is increasingly the lesson of this administration.
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