Dumb Rubes Get What They Ask For, Then Totally Miss Point

Read this.  It's amazing.

San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are “cradle Democrats.” They have donated to the liberal group Organizing for America and worked the phone banks a year ago for President Obama’s re-election.

The couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The couple would need to find another one. The cost would be around double what they pay now, but the benefits would be worse.

Dumb rubes.  No sympathy from me.  Collectivists like collectivism until they are collectivised.  The putatively compassionate want compassion until they are sent the bill.  Loss of freedom is no biggie until your freedom is taken away.  More government is great until dictates come in the mail and you are lost in the bureaucratic maze.

These people are getting exactly what they have believed in all their lives.  They are getting exactly what they voted for.  And sadly, they don't see it, their first reaction is to plead to the authorities for relief.  In other words, all they desire is to be on the inside, not to have freedom to choose, but to be a crony.

That’s little comfort to Hammack. He’s written to California’s senators and his representative, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asking for help.

To have sympathy for these people is a judgement call - they seem like nice, reasonably intelligent people, but the bottom line is that these people believe things that aren't so.  (Obligatory Reagan quote here.)

“We believe that the Act is good for health care, the economy, & the future of our nation. However, ACA options for middle income individuals ages 59 & 60 are unaffordable.

Just because they believed these things, doesn't make them so.  There are consequences to being wrong, to making a faulty analysis, and these people made a faulty analysis regarding the intersection of healthcare policy and progressive political goals.  They are not alone, many did.  And the consequences are here.  I have no problem with consequences, people make choices, thus I have little sympathy for people who lament the predictable consequences of their actions and beliefs.

ObamaCare was always and everywhere about wealth redistribution with a little coercion thrown in.  Nobody should be shocked when a little of their wealth gets redistributed, coercively.  And nobody should have thought they were immune because they were on the "good side" as no doubt these people feel about themselves.  Leftism eats its own.  So Hammack and Brothers were really wrong/naive on two counts.