My, how cultish be the politician. Since
first observing last November the then-nascent trend of outlawing smoking in cars where "children" are present, the rush with which fellow legislators have fallen over themselves to follow suit has proven tremendously embarrassing -- that is, if thinking for oneself is still considered a virtue. Identical bills have since been proposed in
Connecticut,
New York,
Rhode Island,
Maine,
Utah,
Kansas,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and
Massachusetts.
Now
comes Jonah Goldberg to join my anti-children campaign:
Democrats love The Children.
Well, I don’t.
In truth, I do love kids. But it’s the “the” in The Children that’s the problem. It transforms children into a principle for which any violation of limited government is justified.
Read the rest for the interesting back story on whence this campaign of pot-shot moralism derives.
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