‘Rousseau warned that “Those who dare to undertake the institution of a people must feel themselves capable … of changing human nature, … of altering the constitution of man for the purpose of strengthening it.”’

Hillary Clinton, 1993: “Let us be willing to re-mold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the twentieth century; moving into a new millennium.”

Different commentators’ statements keep on reminding me of hers. And I keep on getting a scared feeling in the pit of my stomach that she was saying more than nebulous political rhetoric.