Since virtually all lefty nanny-state proposals are being enacted into law without serious opposition (thanks GOP!), this seems to be a good time for a quote from rightwing knuckle-dragger C.S. Lewis:
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."