Suddenly, there is serious discussion about and reporting on the clash that is coming to the forefront in America between the political, ruling elite class represented by the Democratic Party that is increasingly imposing its will on ordinary Americans. This ruling class is convinced that they know better how citizens should run their lives and that the middle class should contribute itsr wealth to their governments to enable them to shower benefits on those dependents whose votes keep them in power. The more dependents the better. If they ever knew what Margaret Thatcher said, they have forgetten it: "Sooner or later, you run out of other peoples' money."

A revolution is brewing. The spontaneous eruption of the Tea Party movement is the best but not the only evidence. Those Americans appalled by the partisan ramming through of a health care plan they didn't want. Those Americans appalled by more and more rules on what they can or can't do or shouldn't do. Those appalled by the grabs for more power not only in Obamacare, but in a 2000-page financial regulation bill that bestows unprecedented new arbitrary power on government bureaucrats to run peoples' lives. New taxes and controls on energy use to come in a lame duck session even if they lose in November.

A Boston University professor emeritus Angelo Codevilla has conducted an extensive examination of the roots of the present day confrontation extending from Wilson to FDR to Obama. Can the American tradition of individual responsibilty, self-help, entrepreneurship and freedom be regained? The immensity of the challenge cannot be overstated. Can ordinary Americans unite and rise up to take America back? Who will be the leaders of the charge?

This is a long article, but important to read.

As for what's at stake, Professor Codevilla points to these fundamental divides:

At stake are the most important questions: What is the right way for human beings to live? By what standard is anything true or good? Who gets to decide what? Implicit in Wilson's words and explicit in our ruling class's actions is the dismissal, as the ways of outdated "fathers," of the answers that most Americans would give to these questions. This dismissal of the American people's intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others' comprehension.

While the unenlightened ones believe that man is created in the image and likeness of God and that we are subject to His and to His nature's laws, the enlightened ones know that we are products of evolution, driven by chance, the environment, and the will to primacy. While the un-enlightened are stuck with the antiquated notion that ordinary human minds can reach objective judgments about good and evil, better and worse through reason, the enlightened ones know that all such judgments are subjective and that ordinary people can no more be trusted with reason than they can with guns. Because ordinary people will pervert reason with ideology, religion, or interest, science is "science" only in the "right" hands. Consensus among the right people is the only standard of truth. Facts and logic matter only insofar as proper authority acknowledges them.