Via Reason, Nancy Pelosi now referring to the public option as the "consumer option". This may not strike one as much of a story (it's the last line of the NYT article), but I am reminded of this passage in The Road to Serfdom:
In this particular case [confusing the meaning of freedom with power -ed.] the perversion of the meaning of the word has, of course, been well prepared by a long line of German philosophers and, not least, by many of the theoreticians of socialism. But "freedom" or "liberty" are by no means the only words whose meaning has been changed into their opposites to make them serve as instruments of totalitarian propaganda. We have already seen how the same happens to "justice" and "law", "right" and "equality." The list could be extended until it includes almost all moral and political terms in general use.
Add "choice" and "competition" to the list.
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