Helping Reid explain “opposition”

Much has been made about Harry Reid’s attempt to link opposition to heath care to opposition to slavery, woman’s rights and civil rights.

“You think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, slow down, it’s too early. Let’s wait. Things aren’t bad enough. When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted slow down, there will be a better day to do that. The day isn’t quite right. When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone, regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.”

Here are a few links to the obvious.

The Politico: GOP erupts over Reid slavery, segregation remarks
Fox News: Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery

The obvious angles have already been taken. The left agrees with him and the right is correctly notifying him that those that opposed these actions where actually Democrats. Most will write this off as finger pointing and posturing, which of course it is. There are opposition parties and they often oppose actions by the other party. Little of this opposition rises to the level of this debate and those mentioned by Harry Reid.   Below the obvious politics lies a more important point.

All of these arguments, including Health Care, are about freedom. Freedom to live out your life as God intended and as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In all cases, the opposition sided with freedom and the American people and the Democrats sided with government power and the infringement of freedom.  It is this point that needs to be made and why all Americans should watch this debate with great trepidation.   Unfortunately, it is this point that the politicians and the media fail to understand.  American freedom suffers another blow because of it.