Confuse the people.
Control their minds.
Confiscate their property.

I have to dissent on this one. Yes, it's a disgusting inversion - but this is politics, and to expect hardcore, de facto fascists to "play nice" is to engage in self-delusion. Aside from a throwaway expression of "Oh gee, I don't like this at all," the only net result of us (meaning: non-collectivists,) giving this noxious little graphic further publicity, is that: we're giving it publicity.

It's something I harp endlessly about on Facebook when I see "Republican" and "conservative" organizations posting, almost daily, graphics about how much they dislike Dolores Umbridge-Clinton.

Our only proper response to all of this - to the bastardization of the Gadsden flag, to the covert Clinton campaign push that's being passed off as "Stop Hillary in 2016!" (my one conspiracy theory: that "Stop Hillary," in any of its iterations, is actually advance campaigning by...the Clinton machine) ... should be to pull a Howard Roark: Ignore it.

I likely would never have heard of this "Obamacare Gadsden flag" if not for outraged Tea Party "organizations" plastering it from sea to shining sea in apoplectic outrage. It would've faded into the haze its designer inhabits, and few people - aside from a few hardcore collectivists, who by definition are a push anyway - would even have seen it. Instead we're performing free publicity for that rot. Enough already.

My advice - and as this is strategy you're welcome to disagree - is to weigh very, very carefully the cost vs. benefit of further publicizing anything that comes from the vestigial collectivist crowd, especially if it smacks of some "shock value" item like this, that's hoping to trick people into sending it viral. So far, whoever came up with this thing seems to be succeeding, because we're spreading it all over the place. Whether it's Dolores Umbridge-Clinton memes on Facebook (even negative publicity remains: publicity,) or noxious flash-in-the-pan digs like this graphic, just resist the urge to pass it along to others. Just let it lay there, stinking like the intellectual roadkill that it is. When in doubt, practice Total Radio Silence.

What I've started in response to the Facebook "Stop Hillary" memes is simply to post comments beneath them with "West 2016" or "Cruz 2016" or "Paul 2016" graphics attached to them, with no further comment.

We have to discontinue the practice of publicizing the collectivists' ad materials for them, and begin publicizing our alternatives, in every instance where we have the chance.

First of all, I agree with you about Don't Tread. I've had a Don't Tread On Me decal on my car for years. I hope it doesn't get universally accepted as a symbol for Obamacare. I must disagree that feelings are un-Galt-like. Rational feelings, based on what you know to be true, false, etc. are good, and if Galt didn't have them, he'd be an automaton, which is the way some moochers look at Rand's characters. They look at them that way because they cannot understand rational thought. I am glad that I learned how to channel my anger into productive energy, otherwise I'd be tempted to seek out the person who came up with this idea and give him or her a history lesson before putting them in a stockade and throwing rotten vegetables at him/her.

I'd get one of these as a bumper sticker....if someone would make them with a sigmoidoscope....device used to perform a colonoscopy...it would be perfect!!

The curled stethoscope is funny. Yes it is a play on the Don't Tread on Me zymology and message, but to most it will be a joke, nothing to take serious. That is unless there is a big commotion made by the Right.
Just keep calm and it will go the way of most of the stupid ideas put forth to get people to sign up for ObamaCare.

Look on the bright-side...If they really had the support for this type of campaign, they would charge for the bumper-sticker. :)

They won’t be able to give them away if we don’t take the bait.

He knows what works and once a liar always a liar. Socialism is for the people not the socialist. One thing to remember he is still an imp just another piece in the puzzle. His lies have made him more irrelevant in this game he plays. And to think he thinks we are stupid.

That they would use this to promote the ACA, a piece of terribly written policy foisted on us by only Democrats, is funny! It also shows how such people view liberty- a 'right' bequeathed to one by the government, stolen from producers. The nature of Obamacare is to tread on as many people as you can, so a few can have medical care of a weak sort.

Just another example of the statists on the left using a good thing for evil purposes. Kind of like a pedophile using a candy bar to lure innocent victims.

Important: Someone needs to come up with an add-on sticker (like the Subaru ad that took advantage of the strike banner) that converts this back to its original meaning. Then that sticker can be used to turn the campaign back on its thieving originators and make them laughing-stocks.

Jan