I tend to agree, and I'd at least like to hope people will see we're on the wrong course and recant. But even most of the people who oppose ACA don't understand that their own attitudes toward government are what make it inevitable.
Joseph Sobran nailed it, years ago, when he observed that the defining characteristic of the modern attitude toward government is the ubiquitous assumption that government is the unquestioned authority in all things. He compared our view of government with the medieval commoners attitude toward the Church. People may have questioned its decisions, they may have complained about it, but they never questioned its role in dictating the direction of society.
That's where we are now with government. Even most "small government conservatives" still think that government should "do something" about most of the problems we face as a society. They just have different ideas about what it should do. And that pretty much loses the battle right there. Once we agree that government should be in charge of our health care - even if it's just licensing doctors and regulating insurance (which most conservatives are okay with) - we've already started down the road to ACA, and more. I *think* that's the point g5000 is trying to make here.
