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My thought is Santorum is just a rabble-rouser who likes to play mud-slinging game in its most extreme, yet disturbingly effective form. What bothers me isn't so much that he said it, but that enough people will latch onto it to keep such ludicrous tactics viable.
I don't like Obamacare, but to compare it to apartheid is pretty fd up. It was harsher than the segregation we had here in the US. But what I find truly ironic is that its people like Santorum who supported Apartheid.
It is funny that you can't really compare it to any other struggle. Everyone else has had to live with something unpleasant and tried to fix it. He is just trying to prevent it from becoming unpleasant.
The fight against Obamacare. Obamacare hasn't oppressed anyone and they are already fighting it like crazy. At least Apartheid was actually in affect when Mendela fought it.
You know that I wasn't supporting what Santorum said, right? There are clear differences between the two and that was kind of my original point. He compared the fight against Obamacare to something so different, that he pretty much could have compared it to any struggle.
I don't know what he said, but fighting Obamacare before it goes into effect is not a normal struggle. Usually there is some kind of struggle, then a fight to stop it.
I think we might be thinking of two different types of struggles...?
Are you asking me if you think that? Hehe.
I don't think you can count the struggle against Obamacare until Obamacare goes into effect. Knowing that Apartheid is bad and fighting against it before it starts is avoiding a struggle, not going through a struggle.
You are correct about that. Remember when the democrats accused Romney of killing that guy because he got fired from Bain Capital and later died of cancer. Accusing someone of murder is much harsher than comparing Obamacare to apartheid.