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Obamacare Draft Cards? They Dont Exist But The GOP Wants You To Burn Yours
Author: Lorraine Devon Wilke August 5, 2013 1:40 pm
The GOP is so desperate to decimate Obamacare, theyre inciting a campaign to burn your Obamacare Draft Card. Only those dont even exist! Image @ Washington Times
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To take the life, death and legal consequences of a rebellious response to a military draft card and equate that with a mandate to sign up for an insurance program that will ultimately contribute to ones ability to provide for ones healthcare without depending on others or government programs is, if not unscrupulous, at least profoundly disproportionate.
But, as The Atlantic suggests, theyre likely quite aware of their hijacking of that iconic time and its symbols:
Which seems a perfect word for the Freedom Works campaign: FARCE.
But listen, if the GOP wants to really get this going, and while theyre busy co-opting things, I suggest they either grab the image above from The Washington Times or hire their own artist to conjure one up; actually get draft cards printed maybe even some bumper stickers, fridge magnets and coffee cups while theyre at it and then, once distributed, arrange for some well-publicized, media-saturated, viral-ready Obamacare draft card burning festivals kind of like the book-burning events from Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451.
You know we Americans always respond so well to those fascist acts of conflagration.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Is exactly like bring drafted to fight in a war.
Peacetrain
(22,836 posts)and it is proved time and time and time and time again. People have got themselves tied up into emotional knots, and are willing to believe anything that supports their notions.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)but I got a massive headache. :/
The headache was because anyone still identifies as a repug.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)Hated draft dodgers- back in the day?
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)RWNJs are just cognitive enough to have cognitive dissonance