I think you are correct. For all the bleating about freedom in America, we are rapidly losing the practical exercise of them, and after the SCOTUS upheld ACA we are in classic political science terms a totalitarian state.
Post #18 beat us to the punch. It’s a quote from Ayn Rand (who I find impossible to read - my loss) and it says exactly what we think.
Libertinism is being exchanged for freedom, and the sheeple are too stupid to realise the difference.