Obamacare "the worst thing since slavery"?... perhaps this IS an apt metaphor.
Back in the good ol' antideluvian days of yore, slaves were sold as chattel and made to work the cotton fields throughout the American South. Most of these slave owners, though they could be cruel and abusive and even murderous at times, were often quite sober-minded capitalists who wanted to maximize their profits first and foremost, but were still smart enough to recognize the basic physical needs of their work force... so they provided them food, shelter, and MEDICAL CARE when needed.
For the last 30 years or so, the new brand of corporatist slave owners of America have chosen to ignore this last... because nowadays slaves are plentiful, they come in every color now; and it just turns out to be a lot more profitable to simply work them to death. There's always plenty more waiting to snag a good slave spot out there. And they are ALL very eager to please. Most of them don't even KNOW they are slaves, and they still believe they can rise in an economy dominated by a very small, utterly insane and insatiable group of power-mad pirate kings who tend by and large to treat their dogs better than they do most of these desperate and doomed workers.
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There is a certain element of humor to the post... tho I think it's a valid point I'm making, that the very powerful are NOW so EXTREMELY removed from the mass of humanity that they treat most of us the way chickens get treated in a poultry factory... that indeed, the barbaric slave masters of the past were not NEARLY as cold and heartless and dispassionately cruel as these new masters are.
We see this in the cuts to food for children going on now. Hell, they don't even want to feed or house people anymore. They just want to use you til' you're dead.
The old masters were total assholes. Racism is idiocy, and slavery is insane.
But at least they weren't a bunch of totally power-mad narcissistic psychopaths bent on slowly but surely making ALL of society their slaves, like this new bunch.
And that seemed to me a comparison worth making. 
Of course slavery is evil, and it matters not a whit who is enslaving who.
I'd have to be a pretty selfish and stupid person to see it any other way, and I am not that sort.
Our COMMON enemy: Those who rationalize such obvious and inhuman evil, and make faith-based apologies for slavery as part of some natural order.
But that IS, after all, the sort we are now struggling with once again.
NO ONE should own slaves. NO ONE should BE a slave. EVER.
End of story.
Or is it?
It goes a good ways to making my meaning more obvious. 
