Blind Enablers: How Modern Liberal Statism Mirrors the Reiner Family Tragedy

In both cases, sentimentality and ideology blind people to the monster growing under their own roof. - Sherwin Newman

Modern liberalism, in its current progressive form, increasingly resembles a soft gateway to statist control, and the Reiner family tragedy offers a grim metaphor for what happens when 

• denial, enabling, and scapegoating replace 
• honest confrontation of danger. 

In both cases, sentimentality and ideology blind people to the monster growing under their own roof. 

• Rob Reiner could not or would not see the full danger in his son, 
• large segments of the electorate refuse to recognize the authoritarian drift in the very politicians they idolize...