Yes, agreed. "Liberals" always vote for more government and and for whatever moves the country toward socialism. They push for the very systems in which individual responsibility is replaced by communal responsibility, in other words, by state responsibility. The "it takes a village" mentality, totalitarian though it is, resonates with liberals.
We are on the same page on this. Practical Freedom is about a delicate balance between the Freedoms "to" and the Freedoms "from". Liberalism is about a paradigm shift to artificially pick and choose.