Please consider that many Progressive Democrats admire Mao precisely because he did reduce China’s population by 50 million or so, by accident or by design. Haven’t you heard the Green Progressives lament that there are too many people in the world. Haven’t you heard leading Progressives engage in fantasies of killing off their opponents or denying them health care (see Chris Mathews and Garrison Keillor). Remember the television specials such as Life After People. This is exactly why the ‘Death Panels’ remark struck home, it reflects exactly what the extreme branch of progressives wants to do.