Soccer Mom-ism

Jay Jardine discusses that most interfering of modern busybodies, the Soccer Mom:

"There's A Soccer Mom Born Every Minute"

^ That post title, in addition to making my Friday on its own merits, provides a brief nugget of wisdom that will be placed in my mental repository for easy reference in the future. It comes to us from Kevin Carson's excellent Mutualist blog in a lively discussion on the state of contemporary American politics.

He describes a distinguishing feature of "soccer-momism" as "a devotion to outcomes, with no interest whatsoever in matters of principle".

The term "Soccer Mom" was originally a term of approval: the kind of parent who got more involved in the lives of their children than "traditional" parents. It very quickly went mainstream, so that politicians were often referred to as appealing to, or failing to appeal to, the Soccer Moms — liberal suburban families — the people that TV talking heads still thought of as "their audience".