Obamacare "the worst thing since slavery"?... perhaps this IS an apt metaphor.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Well ...

I am okay with this:

I think it's a valid point I'm making, that the very powerful are NOW so EXTREMELY removed from the mass of humanity that they treat most of us the way chickens get treated in a poultry factory

This made me rock back with a huge question:

that indeed, the barbaric slave masters of the past were not NEARLY as cold and heartless and dispassionately cruel as these new masters are.

But it was answered here (and also, but less so in your initial post):

The old masters were total assholes. Racism is idiocy, and slavery is insane.
But at least they weren't a bunch of totally power-mad narcissistic psychopaths bent on slowly but surely making ALL of society their slaves, like this new bunch.

I am reading your words to say, the American institution of slavvery is less horrendous than this current system that you liken to slavery, because the former left you unaffected; but not so, the latter.