I have watched Lawrence O'Donnell's take-down of Rand Paul's idiotic slavery meme several times, and each time I gain greater respect for Lawrence O'Donnell and greater disgust for Rand Paul and his pathetic libertarian white privilege world view. The hubris of these Ayn Rand libertarians is astounding. Comparing the fundamental right of health care to slavery is not only an insult to the enslaved, and those who sacrificed everything to end slavery, but also another use of racism as a tactic.
Our public discourse is now filled with inapproriate references to some of the darkest chapters of human history.
Rand Paul, a medical specialist who’s lived and worked in the country where physicians make more money than anywhere else in the world actually has the ugly hysterically self centered and vile audacity to equate his rich self to a slave. Nothing more unhinged from reality and decency has been said in the United States Senate in our time. It is utterly unpardonable.
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I hope this MSNBC video of Lawrence O'Donnell's deconstruction of Rand Paul's idiocy goes viral.
ravegerofworlds2 's diary in response to Rand Paul's deranged slavery metaphor:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Lawrence O'Donnell:
...But in the demented dreamscape that is Dr. Rand Paul’s vision of healthcare in America, he actually believes “you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away, and force me to take care of you.”
...There is no fact pattern that could ever lead you to believe that.....It is a statement borne of fear and hatred of government. Such are the feelings that have given birth to the Tea Party. Such are the feelings that control now the dialogue in the Republican Party...that define the limits of thought in the Republican Party.
The more you say it-- the more you believe it......
...The more they are allowed to say it without condemnation, the more Doctor Rand Paul is allowed to equate the unprecedented wealth of the American physician with the unspeakable suffering of American slaves, the more we allow unmitigated madness to seep into our politics and poison this country.
Frederick Douglass:
“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.”