These folks realize that they are advocating rule by priest-craft, don't they? They are not asking for data (particularly validated data), nor looking at the counterarguments. Their Shamans and High-Priests tell them there is Trouble in River City (and "Trouble" starts with "T", which rhymes with "C", which starts "Climate Change"...) and they start acting like a pack of salivating, unleashed dogs against anyone that threatens their masters...
I am OK if people want to accuse me of holding up the Bible as the ultimate authority - but I will still check out what it says (and it has never been found wanting). However this enlightened crowd claims that they are 'independent thinkers', yet they bow the knee - and shut off the brains and questions - when their Group Leaders tell them something is so. Strange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state
Paul Gottfried, in After Liberalism, defines this worldview as a "series of social programs informed by a vague egalitarian spirit, and it maintains its power by pointing its finger accusingly at antiliberals." He calls it a new theocratic religion. In this view, when the managerial regime cannot get democratic support for its policies, it resorts to sanctimony and social engineering, via programs, court decisions and regulations...