Big Momma state is growing

Wolf Howling reports on a proposal in the UK to take some obese children away from their parents to be raised by the state. Socialized child rearing is of course a recurring theme in the history of the Utopian left. Still, to see that the past's hard-won lessons that the state cannot be anything but a terribly poor alternative, a desperate last resort, to the family as a locus of child rearing are not yet seriously common sense in what once claimed to be a leading nation is sad indeed. In the Brave New World, the psychopaths will all be thin... and they will not wear childish swastikas on their arms.

Welfare state socialism may have been the ruin of many British families, along perhaps with the success of capitalism in making food and other consumables very cheap. More of either won't solve today's problems; only a re-invigoration of civil society along with appropriate spiritual disciplines can to do the job...

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Also at Wolf Howling: The American Pychological Association knows what you must think about global warming and is seeking ways to make you think it:

[...]By editing CNN and PBS news stories so that some saw a skeptic included in the report, others saw a story in which the skeptic was edited out and another group saw no video, Krosnick found that adding 45 seconds of a skeptic to one news story caused 11% of Americans to shift their opinions about the scientific consensus. Rather than 58% believing a perceived scientific agreement, inclusion of the skeptic caused the perceived amount of agreement to drop to 47%.

American Psychological Association leaders say they want to launch a national initiative specifically targeting behavior changes, including developing media messages that will help people reduce their carbon footprint and pay more attention to ways they can conserve. They want to work with other organizations and enlist congressional support to help fund the effort. . . .

The left is in near total control of academia and the MSM and they are now but a step away from complete control of the reigns of power in Washington. They are pushing the Fairness Doctrine to eliminate conservative opinion from the radio waves. As I blogged the other day, they are planning to criminalize policy differences, dreaming of show trials for the Bush Administration. And now they wish to insure that the U.S. no longer hears both sides of an argument. What has gone wrong in America? And what is wrong with these psychologists that they are so convinced of the truth of their position that they cannot see beyond that and even recognize the ramifications of what they are suggesting? What does it mean when they see their job as being the cynical manipulation of opinion?