We Want the Term "Liberal" Back
[This is first in a series of comments I would like to post at Mother Jones, but I have been banned]
Liberal Kevin Drum is crowing that the ACA is "doing exactly what it was designed to do" in "successfully browbeating" and "threatening" young people to buy health insurance, a product that in most cases they don't want and can ill afford -- particularly since the rules of Obamacare risk-rating jack up the prices to young healthy people in order to subsidize the premiums of older, wealthier, more politically powerful people. Wow, the term "liberal" has sure come a long way, hasn't it? Those of us who still respect the dignity and autonomy of individuals, and by the way are horrified at the idea of having younger lower income people forced to subsidize older higher income people, would like our term "liberal" back.
I will say, though, that it is nice to see Progressives being more up-front about their authoritarianism.
