have written and proposed it to the otherrn12. And so it is today, as a single state legislature,rnsay Idaho, could propose a newrnConstitution to the other 49 state legislatures.rnThis state need not ask the feds forrnpermission to do this.rnThe point of all this is not actually tornform a new government in Washingtonrnbut to initiate a national debate on federalism.rnA Concurrent Resolution by arnsingle state legislature can start the ballrnrolling. If you wish to know how, simplyrncontact us.rn]oseph Stumph is the president of ThernCommittee of 50 States (4808 QuailbrookrnCircle, Salt Lake City, Utahrn84118).rnSOCIAL SCIENCErnThe Vernalizationrnof Hillary’srnAmericarnby Glayde WhitneyrnWhat Hillary failed to do throughrnhealthcare, she is now attemptingrnto do via childcare. And who dares torncomplain? Motherhood and baby’s welfarernare all packaged with a media blitzrnand backed by a panoply of technical experts.rnThe socialization of American societyrnis accomplished via pabulum, andrnthe mean-spirited had best keep quiet.rnOne of my young colleagues, a leadingrnlight in the field of developmentalrnneuroscience, recently predicted thatrnthe field was ripe for political misrepresentation.rnIt has happened before: inrn1948, in the Soviet Union. There, thernsurface issue was agriculture; here, it isrnchildren. There, they had a national crisis:rninadequate food production. Here,rnwe are sometimes told that we have a nationalrncrisis: inadequate parents and citizens.rnThere, the solution was centralrngovernment control of early interventionrnprograms. Here, it is a reasonable predictionrnthat the proposed solution willrninclude central government control ofrnearly intervention programs. There, theyrnruined what agricultural programs theyrnhad, and indeed, the whole Soviet systemrneventually came tumbling down.rnAnd here?rnThere and here the guiding theory isrnidentical: it is a socialist utopia based onrnegalitarianism and what behavioral scientistsrncall environmental determinism.rnIn 1948, Stalin actually outlawed geneticsrnas a Western bourgeois constructionrnthat was incompatible with the truths ofrnMarxist-Leninism. Hillary does not havernquite that political clout, yet.rnThe theory that Stalin and Hillaryrnshare is that all those newborns—wheatrnplants for Uncle Joe, human babies forrnMother Hillary—have identical potentialsrnfor growth and development. Ifrnsome individuals do not do as well as others,rnit is because of their early experience.rnThis is obviously true—everyonernknows that fertilizer is important forrnwheat plants, and everyone knows thatrnearly nutrition and stimulation is importantrnfor humans. This is so obviouslyrntrue that anyone who questions its applicationrnto the problems at hand is an idiot,rnan enemy of the state, and a hatemonger.rnThere, the eminent scientistrnwho objected, geneticist Nikolai Vavilov,rndied of disease and starvation in thernCulag. Here, eminent scientists whornvoice objections are subjected to adrnhominem attacks (and the end of anyrnfederal research support they may havernhad).rnIn addition to individual differences,rnthere are those vexatious group differences.rnThere, winter wheat and springrnwheat did not produce equal crop outcomes.rnHere, it is all too obvious thatrnvarious ethnic/racial groups do not attainrnequal educational, criminal, or job performancernoutcomes. Although no onernin the Soviet Union actually knew thernreasons for the different outcomes, thosernwho did not acquiesce to the environmentalist-rnsocialist-egalitarian explanationrnwere considered evil, beyond thernpale, outside the bounds of acceptablerndiscourse. There, a hated Morganist-rnMendelist; here, a contemptible racist.rnThere can be only one theoreticallyrnacceptable intervention, because there isrnbut one ideologically acceptable cause.rnThere, the acceptable intervention wasrncalled “vernalization.” It consisted of arnwide variety of different treatments, allrndesigned to change the developmentalrntiajectory of little plants. Soviet scientistsrndeclared that appropriate early interventionrncould change low-yielding varietiesrninto high-yielding ones. Spring wheatrncould be like winter wheat. Performancerncharacteristics —and more importantiy,rndifferences in performance betweenrndifferent groups—could be eliminatedrnor reversed by appropriate earlyrnhead starts for the little plants. The earlyrnenvironmental interventions of vernalizationrnwere the only acceptable treatmentsrnbecause they were the only approachesrnthat were compatible with therntheory of environmental determinismrnthat is at the heart of socialist egalitarianism.rnAnd the whole world knows the results:rnfailed programs based on ideologicallyrndriven pseudo-science. Whenrnhighly touted programs failed, the solutionrnwas to redouble the effort on a yetrnlarger scale. Over the years there werernmany media blitzes coordinated throughrnPravda, proclaiming the remarkable successrnof various early intervention programs.rnWith embarrassing regularity therntouted program was allowed to sink intornoblivion while the media trumpeted thernmiraculous results of another new approach.rnPerhaps most ominously, theyrnallowed their lines of seed grain to deterioraternwhile they followed the follies ofrnyet more and earlier vernalizations. ThernSoviet Union faced crop failures, whilernhere in the West, we created bountifulrnharvests; our baskets literally overflowedrnwith grain and produce, while their peoplernstarved. (In fact, their communistrnbrethren continue to starve in NorthrnKorea.)rnIn the West, something remarkablernhappened: as pure science solved a myriadrnof problems, the social and educationalrnsciences were infected by the environmentalrndeterminism that was centralrnto the failures of Marxist socialism. Withrnthis in mind, perhaps we should not holdrnHillary responsible for her folly. After all,rnas a baby boomer educated by a coteriernof silly socialists, she is not to blame forrnher behavior. She is merely a victim ofrnher ideological programming. Sincern1965, we have spent over $5.4 trillion inrnthe Great Society War on Povert}’, andrnwe find ourselves bracing for the arrivalrnof the superpredators. Massive centralizedrnvernalization efforts such as HeadrnStart have not had the promised outcomes.rnInstead the protected classes arernarguably worse off than ever before, asrnout-of-wedlock births to teen mothers, illiteracy,rnlack of job skills or even employmentrnmotivation, and black-on-blackrncrime overwhelm the social services ofrnthe welfare state. The proposed solution;rnmore of the same. From “volunteer” tutorsrnto teach illiterates, to earlier andrn46/CHRONICLESrnrnrn