Shauk

it's an ages old tactic. Demonize your opposition, dehumanize it and contrast anything similar to well known "evils" or "failure" to the point that if you say it enough, make the comparison enough, people will start to mentally associate Obama with say, Marx, or Hitler, Health Care reform with Death Camps & Socialist Policy. It's fucking absurd that it even works, because to the higher minded individual, to them it just looks like raving lunatics going "My god, the president has a red shirt on, red is the color of satan, and fire, and demons, oh my god, he's the anti-christ!"

I seriously want a baseball bat and immunity for a day sometimes.

It's a problem with politics right now, people aren't even representing facts, just feelings.

Factually speaking, if Obama came up with a valid self sustaining plan for public health care, the first reaction by repubs is to envision the worst case scenario and compare it to socialist policy, or go "my god, it's just like the French!" and I'm sure you guys remember the debacle over "Freedom Fries"

Why is it so hard for them to just go "well mr president, I reviewed the plan and section blah blah is going to be a problem, it simply wont fund this bill properly, the negative impact of this passing would be..."

but they wont do that, they get all emotional, go outside and encite the teabagger party to start yelling and jeering and shouting racist remarks, don't even read the bill, and just shut it down out of ignorance and polarity.