Technology has worked against the Progressives, who thought they had sufficiently "dumbed down" the citizenry, and that the time had arrived when they could just impose their agenda, take over the entire economy, and rule over "We, the People," despite Constitutional constraints.
Technology has allowed ordinary Americans to access information and ideas which enlighten their minds, despite the decades-long censorship of those ideas from their textbooks.
Yes, Americans do understand that this push is not about "health care." It is about expansion of power by those who ignore such warnings as this:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? that because they people may betray themselves, they ought to give themselves up, blindfolded, to those who have an interest in betraying them? Rather conclude that the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it, as well as obey it. " - James Madison - Essay in the National Gazette, December 20, 1792.
Should be, "But what is the lesson? that the people. . . ."