Unchurched church ladies: the horror of the age

Why are our drug laws so vicious?  Why has the panic over sexual assault exploded into such cruelty and overreaction that a President considers it in his interest to trample the rights of half of the population? Why are six million boys drugged every day just for the right to go to school?  Why do our sexual offender laws brutally punish childhood behaviors that virtually every child in history has partaken of?

I'd blame it on the moralistic hysteria of self righteous church ladies except that they don't have enough clout to pull this intercontinental scale, industrial grade brutality off.  Recall Prohibition - there were moralistic church ladies opposed to Demon Rum long before Prohibition became plausible.  What made Prohibition a reality was the rise of the so called "Progressives".  Progressives believe that if sufficient carrots and sticks are applied, human beings can be manipulated into 'goodness'.  Indeed they believe that they have a historic mission to use said carrots and sticks (mostly sticks) to 'raise society up'. To where?  Well not to their level, of course but to where they want it to be.

Elizabeth Warren:  "Effing boys!"

And what is a 'progressive' but an 'unchurched' church lady? Filled with self righteousness, moral certitude and will to power unconstrained by the humility and mercy demanded by ethical religion.  Progressives are church ladies with no off switch, blue haired blue stockings of brutality, man and tradition hating in its purest form.  Senator Elizabeth Warren, the ironic occupant of Massachusetts' "Kennedy" seat is the quintessential unchurched church lady - a shrieking, howling paragon of the species.

And the problem is that history has no precedent, no gameplan, no escape route for dealing with these howling harpies:  dictators? we got their number, genocidal caudillos? without a doubt, abusive monarchs? yesireebob! But sororities filled with Warrenite howlers?  We don't have a clue.

God help us every one.