The actual left is generally against that sort of thing, and even significant factions on the right don't want the kind of government control, what you should be concerned about are liberal centrist people.
About as biased as a source you can find, considering this is from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute [1], a right-wing pressure group designed to spread propaganda in college campuses.
Typical American definition maybe, but the word liberal is synonymous for big business in the rest of the world. Neoliberals are not left-wing, and the Democratic party is not left wing.
> Well of course we shouldn’t have funded state entitlement programs with trillions in low-interest debt and ensured our governments and, by extension, our societies were addicted to low interest rate revolving credit facilities writ large.
The author doesn't mention the single largest source of increase in federal debt the last few years: the military and tax cuts for the wealthy.
No, you're just privileged enough to not have to worry about a divisive political issue because it doesn't directly impact you. There's nothing wrong with that, if you're aware of it.