No, I don't think anyone here wants to bring back slavery. My point was that social/cultural issues do sometimes get "decided" by us, as a society. I said this in response to franksolich's suggestion that nothing is final. That said, upon reconsideration, I agree with franksolich. Nothing is final.
-Laelth
Yet you, like most other liberals, seem to believe the decades-long propagana and fear hype about the republicans and conservative christians in particular (otherwise, you wouldn't have said it). You know, how if republicans had our way, this country would be a theocracy where women would have no rights whatsoever and would function only as baby factories, where children would go to work for 20 hour days before they could learn to walk, where anyone who isn't an Albino would be rounded up and shipped to Baffin Island, where the planet's climate would resemble Venus, and where we would pray to the local corporation three times a day, and so on.
For far too long, we have heard all kinds of things about how republicans want to destroy this country (some actually worse than what was in the last paragraph). They create a government program and then once its been established, they will use it election year after election year as a way to get their voters all worked up and frightened that those eeeeeeevil republicans want to take that program away (i.e. social security, medicare, and now Obamacare). And when someone comes along and tries to fix the problems that involve reducing the power of government, out comes the liberals and the media (redundant, I know) and the knee-jerk reactions, the fear, and even downright hate.
After decades of all of this, it's little wonder that the dupes at DU and other such places totally believe all of the abject lies and slander. There is thread upon thread over at DU which is nothing more than "I hate (Cruz, Bush, Tea Party, insert silly nickname for republicans here, Cheney, Fox News, etc.) and I want them to (go away and never return, be thrown in jail, die, die horribly, die slowly, be shot, be fragged by that grenade, suffer agonizing pain for years and then die, etc.)". And for what? Because the republicans disagree with the liberal agenda? Because there are some people out there that maybe...just maybe don't want to be dependent or subservient to an all-powerful government? Maybe we like using incandescent bulbs or driving an SUV, but if we do, we're made out to be some kind of horrible villain bent on destroying the world.
Do you see just how ridiculous all of that hype and propaganda is? So please, don't believe the tripe that just because we don't want the government controlling our health care that somehow we want to bring back slavery. If anything, Obamacare is what will make slaves of us, by telling us what we can and cannot eat or drink or where we can and cannot go, or worse, what we are
required to eat or drink in the interests of "cutting costs". Need that pacemaker? Sorry, it would cost too much and you're too old anyway. Here, take these pain pills.
