There are so many things wrong with this statement that I don’t know where to begin. But let’s try anyway.

For starters, the Republican Party was founded as the abolitionist party, in contract to the Democratic Party that continued to support the institution of slavery. So the history of slavery support doesn’t belong to us, it’s belongs to the other side of the aisle.

Second, the current president pro tempore of the United States Senate is Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV). He’s a powerful Democrat who serves on countless powerful committees. He’s also a former member of the Klu Klux Klan, participated in attempts to stop civil rights legislation, and is still known to use the n-word.

A quote from still-Senator Robert Byrd:

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Funny, this guy still serves as a Democrat in the United States Senate. He’s yet to be shoved out by his supposedly tolerant colleagues.

Finally, who’s really advocating slavery here? Democrats are pushing a program that would shove private alternatives out of business, make everyone reliant on the federal government, place bureaucrats in charge of whether you’d even receive health care, and ration services for individuals the government don’t consider cost-effective.

It would seem that those opposing socialized health care are the ones really fighting for freedom. The ObamaCare proponents are the ones pushing for a modern-day slavery — a system in which individuals are subservient and dependent upon the whims of the federal government.