My wife posted a link to a great essay by Umberto Eco regarding Facism on her blog today. It's an easy read and enlightening in many ways (especially when you consider many of Obama's critics claim he is a facist). That being said, point number three seems to be the philosophy du jour in America today.  As people decry a liberal elite that doesn't exist, one line from Eco's piece jumped out at me:

Thinking is a form of emasculation