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To Rick Santorum, Obamacare = apartheid

With the passing of South African leader Nelson Mandela yesterday, former Republican presidential candidate and man with the future nickname fecal-matter face - Rick Santorum - decided it was time to wow the masses with his intellect by making this statement on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor:

"Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice (apartheid) and was willing to pay a huge price for that, and that's the reason he is mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed...and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that."

 Yes, the government segregating a population by race is exactly the same thing as the government attempting to provide everyone with healthcare.

Apartheid

 Government: "No healthcare for you, you, or you, because you're black!"


Obamacare

 Government: "We want everyone to have good quality healthcare, even for you, you, and you!"


Yeah, that's the same thing...

In the future, Santorum is bound to make the following comparisons:

- "Martin Luther King had a dream, and I do too. He dreamt of bringing people together. I dream of that as well, except for the gays. They mustn't be brought together, for then AIDS will fly through the air like dust and stuff, and we'll all get infected!"

- "Gandhi helped bring a nation independence through non-violent means, just like the NRA is trying to do for our forefathers, all our law-abiding citizens, and even felons and blind people!"

- "Jesus sacrificed himself for all of our wrongs. Now we must sacrifice doing what feels good to do what's right, and that's for most everyone to pay more in taxes so the richest among us don't have to. It's what Jesus would want. He was a capitalist after all. How else could we explain that Jesus sounds so much like Wal-Mart?"

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/06/3030141/rick-santorum-obamacare-mandela/
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