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<Again, your assumption is that the consumer has no choices, and that we are helpless pawns in the hands of Darth Ronald the Clown of Evil. Is a liberal even capable of thinking other than paternalistically?
We all have choices. Not all of us have a lot of choices. Some of us only have two.
Some of us don't know we have choices.
This is where the "paternalistic liberals" come in. The idea is to teach people about their choices, and then to teach them how to make an informed choice.
Free market forces already work on one end of this equation: Choose me! Choose me! Pay no attention to that Surgeon General behind the curtain!
Is it too much to ask that someone be balancing the other end of that equation?
Regards--
Mary Anne