“Not even the monsters depicted in Darkness At Noon, in Nineteen Eighty-Four or in Animal Farm, never mind Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China, or Hitler’s Germany, ever demanded such subrational submission. “
That pretty much nails it.
NEVER submit to the “political ruling class!”
And here is some pretty strong supporting analysis:
“The Quintessential Liberal Fascist:”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html