She's intelligent, no doubt about it. That does not equate to wisdom. If you like Stephen King's novels you need to read some of Hillary's thoughts on government regulation of parental rights.
In 1979 she made the following statement: "Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of venereal disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will significantly affect the child's future should not be made unilaterally by parents."
Or this gem: "Now we can talk about reality, and I would like to talk about reality sometime, authentic reality, inauthentic reality, and what we have to do to accept what we see."
How about this argument for the right of children to sue or even divorce their parents: "I want to be a voice for America's children...advocating...the immediate abolition of the legal status of minority and the reversal of the legal presumption of the incompetence of minors in favor of a presumption of competence; the extention to children of all procedural rights guaranteed to adults; the rejection of the legal presumption of the identity of interests between parents and their children, and permission for competent children to assert those independent interests in the courts."
"Ironically, reaction against state intervention in cases of nonphysical abuse is consistent with consensus romanticism about the family."
Hungry for more? This should satisfy your craving: "Certain myths...serve only to inhibit the development of a realistic family policy in this country: the myth of the housewife whose life centers only on her home and...the myth, or perhaps more accurately, the prejudice, that each family should be self-sufficient."
"We need to forge a new consensus about our political direction...that doesn't jerk us to the right, jerk us to the left, prey on our emotions, engender paranoia and insecurity...but instead moves us forward together." Can you spell "VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY?"
More on government benevolence in the arena of child protection: "A common complaint about the exercise of discretion in neglect cases is that alien values, usually middle-class, are used to judge a family's child rearing practices. One way to answer that complaint is to entrust the discretion necessary for evaluating a child's needs to persons representing the milieu in which a family lives." In other words, middle-class values in child rearing are highly suspect. Comforting isn't it.
"Words have a funny way of trapping our minds on the way to our tongues." No kiddin'? They also have a way of revealing our minds to others.
Regards, Shuckins
