The headline of the skeptical doctor’s Law & Liberty essay sums up the dangerous direction that is increasingly being chosen by much of the pitiful excuse for a ruling elite in the Western world.

Trying to eliminate antipathy, dislike, ridicule, and insult from the human heart and mind is a task to make that of Sisyphus seem like an afternoon stroll: precisely the type of task that authoritarian governments love, for it gives them the locus standi to interfere ever more intimately with the lives of their subjects.