You say you didn’t know there was an Obamacare Draft Card? THAT’S BECAUSE THERE ISN’T!!

[babylonsister]

Obamacare Draft Cards? They Don’t 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, they’re inciting a campaign to burn ‘your Obamacare Draft Card.’ Only those don’t 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 one’s ability to provide for one’s healthcare without depending on others – or government programs – is, if not unscrupulous, at least profoundly disproportionate.

But, as The Atlantic suggests, they’re likely quite aware of their hijacking of that iconic time and its symbols:

But there’s a smirk behind it all too. FreedomWorks is taking a treasured image of the anti-war left, the high-water mark of American progressive political action, and seeking to make it the right’s own. In doing so — though it would surely make the free-market loving capitalists at FreedomWorks cringe to hear it – they’re proving that in one respect, at least, Marx was right: History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Which seems a perfect word for the Freedom Works campaign: FARCE.

But listen, if the GOP wants to really get this going, and while they’re 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 they’re 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 Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

You know we Americans always respond so well to those fascist acts of conflagration.

[Just Saying]

1. Because compulsory healthcare

Is exactly like bring drafted to fight in a war.

[Peacetrain]

2. There is that old saying.. "A Fool born every minute"

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]

3. Liberals protest war......... Conservatives protest health care. Think about it.

[LisaLynne]

7. I tried ...

but I got a massive headache. :/

The headache was because anyone still identifies as a repug.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. I thought RWNJs

Hated draft dodgers- back in the day?

[Martin Eden]

5. Explanation: they are NJs

RWNJs are just cognitive enough to have cognitive dissonance

[freshwest]

6. OFFS!!!!

[Jim Lane]

8. Of course they exist. I picked up mine at my local ACORN office. (n/t)