"The general will alone is capable of directing the forces of the state according to the end of its institution - which is the Common Good." - Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. 1762.
That one is the most infamous, abused and liberaly interpreted of Rousseau's statements. It is generally used by the left to condemn anything they do not believe to be for the "common good" and can be liberally applied to any of the instances you cite.
That one is the most infamous, abused and liberaly interpreted of Rousseau's statements. It is generally used by the left to condemn anything they do not believe to be for the "common good" and can be liberally applied to any of the instances you cite.
The Left has it's own dogma like a religious sect. When I hear conservatives use the rhetoric, I cringe...