“I can’t see how someone can come to the conclusion that it’s part of some sort of ‘liberal agenda’.”
It is the logical extension from someone who perceives people as sheep. With that philosophy as a life guide, people are herd animals to be tended by the trusty sheepdog and kept in their pens and on their ranges...fed and led, not feeding and leading. And THAT is the liberal mindset. The pity is, he doesn’t even realize it.
I recall years ago, a specialist in old English gave a short lecture/interpretation of Shakespeare.
Turns out about every other paragraph he wrote had some kind of VERY spicy interpretation back then, and a good amount of it would have been considered obscene!
What party animals those Victorians were! We never knew!