The right to raise our own children with our own values is increasingly undermined by the propaganda in the public schools and by the growing powers of education bureaucrats, shrinks and social workers. They can tell you that your child has to be drugged with Ritalin because he is bored and restless in school -- and you can even be charged with child neglect if you don't go along.
This is the ugly reality behind the pretty words of Hillary Clinton about how "it takes a village to raise a child" -- whether or not the parents want their child raised by a village or its politicians and bureaucrats. There are already "home visitation" programs that get strangers into your home under a variety of pretexts, in order to try to impose the values in which these visitors have been indoctrinated. The next step is not having to use pretexts, but to send them in whether you want them or not.
"I cannot say enough in support of home visits," Hillary Clinton declared. Nor should these visits always be "consensual," she added.
Even at the local level, big-government advocates have made it an ordeal for many people to try to remodel their own homes, without inspectors getting underfoot and telling them what they can and cannot do -- with their own property. And G-d help you if they find an endangered species on your land -- which will never really be your land again, because the government will call the shots, while you pay the price.
You can't follow every detail of every policy proposal or track down every lie told in a political campaign. But you don't need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten. However, you do have to stop and think. Is that something you are willing to do for your country before entering the voting booth?