Great explanation: infantilization

To make infant-like is the word I want.  It would seem to be infantilization.

Infantilization is what the new Left is all about.  Many of my readers are Lefties but somehow tolerate my occasional querulous comments about Lefties.

Please excuse me, it is hard for me to understand how a nice person could have Lefty views. I know that many of my readers are as baffled as I... so the on going question is of interest to most of my readers.

Today, I concluded that the new Leftism, which passes laws to control the behavior of ordinary citizens, what we eat, drink, smoke, wear, sit in, sit on, burn, put in the trash... etc are premised on the Left's desire to be goody-goody children.

The Left is made up mostly of people who have spent their entire life being goody-goodies which requires knowing what to do to be good. 

The Left has already filled our lives with a thousand laws, rules and suggestions for being goody-goody to satisfy the need of lefties to know what good behavior is expected of them. 

To be goody-goody and legal: Don't smoke, wear a helmet, put on seat belts, drive a Prius, sort your garbage, shop at Whole Foods, eat local organic but not fish-farmed, send your kids to Waldorf schools, hate TV, love Al Gore, love Doonesbury, hate Bush, Cheney, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, ride a bike, wear hiking boots, hate the sun, hate big corporations, drink bottled water, be pro-vegetarian etc...

The Left is all about being goody-goody and making the rest of us be that way too.