The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.
In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob, for instance:
Liberal Groupthink: “The same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they haven’t heard on NPR.”
Liberal Schemes: “No matter how mad the plan is—Fraternité, the ‘New Soviet Man,’ the Master Race, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society, ObamaCare—a mob will believe it.”
Liberal Enemies: “Instead of ‘counterrevolutionaries,’ liberals’ opponents are called ‘haters,’ ‘those who seek to divide us,’ ‘tea baggers,’ and ‘right-wing hate groups.’ Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals ‘liberals’—and that makes them testy.”
Liberal Justice: “In the world of the liberal, as in the world of Robespierre, there are no crimes, only criminals.”
Liberal Violence: “If Charles Manson’s followers hadn’t killed Roman Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, Clinton would have pardoned him, too, and he’d probably be teaching at Northwestern University.”
Citing the father of mob psychology, Gustave Le Bon, Coulter catalogs the Left’s mob behaviors: the creation of messiahs, the fear of scientific innovation, the mythmaking, the preference for images over words, the lack of morals, and the casual embrace of contradictory ideas.
Coulter traces the history of the liberal mob to the French Revolution and Robespierre’s revolutionaries (delineating a clear distinction from America’s founding fathers), who simply proclaimed that they were exercising the “general will” before slaughtering their fellow citizens “for the good of mankind.”
Similarly, as Coulter demonstrates, liberal mobs, from student radicals to white-trash racists to anti-war and pro-ObamaCare fanatics today, have consistently used violence to implement their idea of the “general will.”
This is not the American tradition; it is the tradition of Stalin, of Hitler, of the guillotine—and the tradition of the American Left.
As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again, while Republicans, heirs to the American Revolution, have regularly stood for peaceable order.
Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth, liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimes—assassination plots, conspiracy theorizing, political violence, embrace of the Ku Klux Klan. Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite: Political violence—mob violence—is always a Democratic affair.
Surveying two centuries of mob movements, Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive. And yet, she argues, beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties, Americans have lost their natural, inherited aversion to mobs. Indeed, most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with.
Only by recognizing the mobs and their demonic nature can America begin to defend itself.
ANN COULTER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Guilty, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, Godless, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. She is the legal correspondent for Human Events and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. A graduate of Cornell University and University of Michigan Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and served as a litigator with the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights, with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion. A frequent guest on many TV shows, she was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001. Her weekly column can be read at anncoulter.com
If You Are a Liberal: Let me give you a fair warning; If you are a liberal democrat, even an "open-minded" one, you will hate this book. I would not recommend you waste your time reading Demonic. You will likely find Ms. Coulter to be mean-spirited toward ...
评分If You Are a Liberal: Let me give you a fair warning; If you are a liberal democrat, even an "open-minded" one, you will hate this book. I would not recommend you waste your time reading Demonic. You will likely find Ms. Coulter to be mean-spirited toward ...
评分If You Are a Liberal: Let me give you a fair warning; If you are a liberal democrat, even an "open-minded" one, you will hate this book. I would not recommend you waste your time reading Demonic. You will likely find Ms. Coulter to be mean-spirited toward ...
评分If You Are a Liberal: Let me give you a fair warning; If you are a liberal democrat, even an "open-minded" one, you will hate this book. I would not recommend you waste your time reading Demonic. You will likely find Ms. Coulter to be mean-spirited toward ...
评分If You Are a Liberal: Let me give you a fair warning; If you are a liberal democrat, even an "open-minded" one, you will hate this book. I would not recommend you waste your time reading Demonic. You will likely find Ms. Coulter to be mean-spirited toward ...
我必须承认,我花了一些时间才完全适应这本书的叙事节奏,因为它没有采用传统的小说线性结构,而是采用了大量的闪回和交叉叙事。起初有点挑战性,但一旦你适应了作者的节奏,你会发现这种结构安排的精妙之处——它完美地模拟了记忆的碎片化和事件的相互关联性。作者巧妙地利用时间线的跳跃,来逐步揭示一个宏大历史事件背后的真相,每当一个看似不相关的片段被拼凑完整时,那种豁然开朗的感觉是无与伦比的阅读体验。此外,这本书对于“力量”和“代价”的探讨非常深刻,它没有美化任何形式的强大,反而着重强调了获取和使用力量所必须付出的沉重代价。这本书不仅仅是一个故事,它更像是一部关于生存哲学和宿命抗争的史诗。绝对值得花时间去细细品味和研究。
评分我得说,这本书的创意实在太新颖了,它成功地颠覆了我对传统奇幻设定的所有认知。作者似乎没有满足于已有的框架,而是大胆地构建了一个充满矛盾和张力的全新体系。我特别欣赏作者在世界观构建上的细致入微,那些看似无关紧要的文化习俗、宗教信仰,最终都巧妙地串联起来,构成了一张严密的逻辑网。阅读过程中,我像个侦探一样,不断地在字里行间寻找线索,试图拼凑出这个世界的全貌。这种需要读者主动参与思考的阅读过程,极大地增加了阅读的乐趣。而且,这本书的节奏掌握得非常到位,没有冗余的段落,每一处描述、每一句对话似乎都在为最终的揭示服务。虽然题材略显沉重,但其中蕴含的人性光辉和对命运的探讨,却让人在沉重中看到了希望。这是一部需要反复品味的佳作,相信随着时间的推移,我还会发现更多被我忽略的精彩细节。
评分这本书真是让人欲罢不能,从翻开第一页起,我就被作者那精湛的叙事技巧牢牢吸引住了。故事的背景设定在一个我从未想象过的奇幻世界,那些宏大的场景描绘得栩栩如生,仿佛我真的能闻到空气中弥漫的硫磺气息,听到远方传来的古老吟唱。角色的塑造更是妙不可言,每一个人物都有着复杂的内心世界和深刻的动机,他们的选择和挣扎,让我感同身受,好几次我都忍不住放下书,停下来思考这些人在绝境中是如何做出决定的。特别是主角面对的伦理困境,简直是教科书级别的写作。情节的推进张弛有度,高潮迭起,总是在你以为一切都尘埃落定的时候,抛出一个更令人震惊的转折。这本书的文字功底极为扎实,用词考究却又毫不晦涩,阅读体验极其流畅。我几乎是屏息凝神地一口气读完了它,结束后久久不能平复内心的激动,强烈推荐给所有热爱史诗级冒险故事的读者。
评分这本书的语言风格充满了强烈的个人色彩,可以说是独树一帜。它不像某些作品那样追求华丽辞藻的堆砌,反而倾向于用一种近乎冷峻、直白的笔触去描绘残酷的现实。这种克制的表达方式,反而产生了更强大的冲击力,将故事的悲剧性和紧迫感推向了极致。我感觉作者的文字像冰冷的刀锋,直刺人心,毫不留情地揭示了人性深处的脆弱和坚韧。阅读过程中,我仿佛能听到作者低沉而有力的叙述声,每一个句子都掷地有声。而且,作者在构建复杂角色关系时,并没有依赖大量的内心独白,而是通过人物的行动、对话和环境的烘托来完成,这种“少说多做”的叙事技巧非常高明。这本书适合那些寻求深刻体验而非轻松消遣的读者,它会让你在阅读结束后,依然感觉故事的余韵在脑海中久久不散。
评分坦白讲,我本来对这种题材并不抱太大期望,但这本书完全超出了我的预期,给了我一个巨大的惊喜。最让我震撼的是作者处理冲突的方式,它不是简单的正邪对立,而是充满了灰色地带。你很难清晰地分辨谁是绝对的英雄,谁是彻底的反派,很多时候,那些所谓的“恶行”背后,都有着难以言说的苦衷和被环境所迫的无奈。这种对人性的深刻剖析,让故事的层次一下子提升了好几个维度。书中对权谋斗争的描写也极其到位,那些暗潮汹涌的政治博弈,每一次交锋都充满了智慧和策略,让人看得拍案叫绝。我尤其喜欢作者在关键时刻选择的叙事视角切换,让读者得以从不同角度审视事件的真相,这种多重叙事手法处理得非常成熟老练。这本书绝对是近期我读过的文学作品中,最能引发我深思的一部。
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