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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (9033)	9/3/2009 3:50:26 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You were addressing this point: "I believe MOST of the anti-reform protesters are speaking spontaneously without some kind of organizing influence..." You proceeded to compare the protesters on both sides of the debate as if they are equal. Most of the people who initially showed up at town hall meetings were expressing heartfelt fear that ObamaCare would be more disastrous than Obamanomics. Leftwingers discovered they were losing because the American people did not want their vision of rationed government administered care. They set out to organize people to counter the genuine outpouring of disgust. The simple plain truth is that a few protesters who want to keep their freedom were using the same tactics that the vast majority of the hired guns from ACORN and various unions were trained to use. If you walked up to a stranger and said to them "You are just like HItler" they would not initially react, "you are right because were were both born of a mother". While pointing out minute similarities may help individuals bridge the divide it is not legitimate to compare the two groups and say they are the same. People who are afraid that mobs will take from them what they earned are not the same as organized mobs bent on taking from others what they earned.