London's Daily Mail columnist and author of the book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power Melanie Phillips explained how she believes the Western world has fallen into a soft totalitarianism by distorting truths, renewing hatred of Jews, and allowing rationality and science to dominate over spirituality and faith. The cult of Barack Obama, she said, is the greatest example of soft totalitarianism in the U.S.