Totalitarian Sentimentality

Roger Scruton exposes the Liberal social engineering in his American Spectator article. Under the guise of compassion and caring for the less fortunate, the Liberal left in fact fosters social problems, so that they could perpetuate their rule:

I call this sentimentality "totalitarian" since -- like totalitarian government -- it seeks out opposition and carefully extinguishes it, in all the places where opposition might form. Its goal is to "solve" our social problems, by imposing burdens on responsible citizens, and lifting burdens from the "victims," who have a "right" to state support. The result is to replace old social problems, which might have been relieved by private charity, with the new and intransigent problems fostered by the state: for example, mass illegitimacy, the decline of the indigenous birthrate, and the emergence of the gang culture among the fatherless youth.
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The citizens whose taxes pay for the flood of incoming "victims" cannot protest, since the sentimentalists have succeeded in passing "hate speech" laws and in inventing crimes like "Islamophobia" which place their actions beyond discussion. This is just one example of a legislative tendency that can be observed in every area of social life: family, school, sexual relations, social initiatives, even the military -- all are being deprived of their authority and brought under the control of the "soft power" that rules from above.

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Yes, the Liberal left politicians are experts in creating those "catch-22" situations: First they destroy the traditional family and then they need extra funds for a nation-wide McDaycare system. First they twist the immigration system so that a penniless unskilled refugee claimant has an advantage over a multilingual professional and then they try to fight poverty among minority groups by instituting "corrective" discrimination. First they set the rules which discourage those on social assistance from getting even a part-time job and then, of course, they are the ones determined to fight poverty...

In the end, people just get used to those paradoxes, so they stop noticing them. If anything, the attitude of an average voter is "if the government doesn't do something - who will?" Unfortunately, not many are able to notice that all-intrusive government creates more problems than it solves.