It is not about being prudent, or functional, ethical, or even the vague concept of “doing the right thing” for liberals; at least, to the extent of “doing the right thing” as measured by reality or concrete numbers or costs or long term effects.
Liberals want what they want because the sloganeering, the desire to align society asymptotically with an ever-evolving utopian ideal is the operational mode. There is no endpoint, there is only the supplanting of one ideal after another, all of them sweet sounding, yet never having achieved the professed result of the prior exercise. It’s always “forward”; never mind the full-on dysfunction and poor result from what prior effort has been squandered on.
For example, it doesn’t matter what the consequences of giving every kid in a sporting event a trophy are: The ideal of being fair and inclusive in the present and adhering to the utopian ideal outweigh any considerations relating to the long-term effect of denigrating excellence and the failure to prepare the kid for later, inevitable failures.
It doesn’t matter that 0bamacare is and has been and continues to be riddled with the entire fraudulent inducement to support it, it doesn’t matter that most insureds will find themselves paying massively more for ultimately poorer coverage. It does not matter that the over 40 unconstitutional changes to the law so far make it so that there is really no such one thing as “0bamacare”, nor does it matter that the ad hoc rewriting of law cheapens all law. What is important to them is that this ideal has been achieved, no matter how sub-mediocre the real world results are. You argue with liberals as to the details of ACA and ultimately it’s “we won, it’s the law, get used to it”.
Liberalism just isn’t a reality-based TV show. It is a gaggle of synthetic constructs layered one upon another that make people feel good because it allows them to self-assume an air of superior moral quality because their professed aims sound so altruistic. It is a denial of actual human experience, it is a low-attention span focus on sloganeering and willful denial of result.
Understand, it is an article of faith in Obama's nabe....an undying belief that all US laws, rules and regs, our values, our standards, morals and mores were fashioned by "evil white men" for one specific reason----to subdue, subjugate, and keep in abject poverty, individuals from Obama's "community of color."
That is why he acts without restraint---caters to people of color---and uses the power of govt to thumb his nose at the rest of America.