> believing that experts should decide how to socialize children That isn't what American liberals (in the philosophical sense) believe. Liberals believe that

> believing that experts should decide how to socialize children That isn't what American liberals (in the philosophical sense) believe. Liberals believe that their personal beliefs are basically, universally correct--they are good American liberals, after all--and other people should be enlightened in the same way. How they get enlightened--reeducation or bombs or bibles or sanctions or spontaneously--is a minor detail.