The Stupider the Citizen, the More the Justification for Governmental Overreach

If this Daily Mail  story is to be believed, a 17 year old English girl has subsisted on little more than McDonald's chicken nuggets and fries for the past 15 years. "The factory worker – who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables – had to be taken to hospital earlier this week when she collapsed after struggling to breathe."

Stories like these are used by nanny-staters to justify ever more government intrusion.  But the more the government intrudes, the less self-reliant and childish the people become -- which justifies even more intrusion.  Or as Dennis Prager likes to say, "The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."  To which I add, "The bigger the government, the more to fight over."  So if you want a politics increasingly polarized and embittered, agitate for more government control and less individual  liberty.