MADD Gone Mad?

MADD is apparently trying to get sanctions placed on divorce(e)s with children who have even a single drink before driving. Even the founder of MADD thinks that the group has gone too far and has essentially become prohibitionist.

Several concerns are raised here about MADD's possible attempts to overthrow basic constitutional protections.

The general story here, as I see it, appears to be that MADD mostly succeeded at its original mission of preventing most casual drunk driving. After it had done this, it faced becoming a far less important and relevant organization, and driven by the desire to survive and to maintain and increase its influence, decided, as such organizations are wont to do, to expand its mission in order to maintain a raison d'etre. In other words, the power, relevance, and importance of MADD is directly tied to how much of a problem drunk driving is, so the more MADD succeeds in decreasing drunk driving, the less relevant it becomes, unless it gets more "miles" out of each drunk-driving incident. Likewise, as more and more of its agenda keeps getting passed, it has less and less left to fight for unless it keeps adding new items to the agenda, each of which has to be more extreme than the last (unless the organization changes directions, which is unlikely because MADD's membership almost by definition will be more concerned with drunken driving than the general population). Ultimately, a successful single-issue political organization has to either become extremist or else fizzle out.

This seems to be what is happening here.

Thanx and a tip o' the hat to Ifeminists.

That is all.