Are leftists for big government, or only for leftist big government?

Have you seen this video by MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry, saying that we must "get rid of this private notion that kids belong to their parents."

Fuzzy Slippers writes at the Fuzzy Logic blog that

Stalin, Hitler, Mao . . . all laid claim to the children in the name of the state.

What are we doing about it?

we are doing pretty much nothing when we aren’t busy telling ourselves that “it can’t happen here.” It IS happening here. And it is happening now. What can we do about it? That, I just don’t know, but it has to start with taking back our own children, fighting to ensure that our kids remain ours and not Obama’s minions in a collectivist fantasy that is doomed not only to failure but to much death and despair on the path to that failure. How do I know that the state “owning” children leads to death and despair? Because I read history. Lots of it, all the time.

As conservatives, we often imagine that leftists are “for” big government, but we forget that the only government they worship (and it is a form of mindless, fawning worship, of slavish devotion to their “Lord and Savior”) is leftist government: Totalitarian. As in, we know what is best for everyone, we work for the “The Greater Good” so you don’t have to, government.

Read more here: http://fuzislippers.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/big-government-is-everyones-parent-including-your-childs/