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RUSH: Pew Research Center: “Partisan differences now divide Americans more sharply than distinctions of race, religion, education or sex as a decade-long wave has pushed Democrats and Republicans to opposite corners on a wide range of formerly less partisan issues.” Do you realize how profound that is? The partisan divide is sharper than the divisions that exist because of race, religion, education, or sex. The partisan divide, the left versus right, conservative versus liberal, that divide is sharper than even race and religion. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not surprised. This does not shock me, but I can imagine this is gonna blow the lid off of a lot of people. And I know it\u2019s true. I don\u2019t need a poll to tell me this is true. I saw this focus group last night <\/a>that Luntz did on the Hannity show with supposedly a cross-section of people from Wisconsin <\/a>on the eve of the recall election today. Folks, it was breathtakingly sad, breathtakingly frustrating, and what it ensured was that there is no hope for compromise here. All of this talk about compromise is drivel. All of this talk of compromise is a sideshow, it\u2019s a distraction, and it is part of the arsenal of weaponry, ammo from the left to defeat us. They have no desire to get along with us. <\/p>\n

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Any conservative or Republican, any political consultant from this day forward who advises a candidate that the way to get elected is to go out and sell him- or herself as the guy who can cross the divide, bridge the gap, is gonna be responsible for that person losing. I am not kidding. The people I saw that Frank Luntz put together in this focus group last night, it\u2019s not even a matter of changing their minds. There\u2019s no reaching them. They were as close-minded to truth and fact as anything I\u2019ve ever seen. And I\u2019ve seen it all. And I\u2019ve talked to obstinate liberals. I\u2019ve talked to brain-dead people. These people took the cake. They were mostly union workers and they have this set of beliefs that are every bit as hysterical as every right-wing conspiracy kook that you\u2019ve ever run into. They are that devoid and that distanced from reality, these people were. <\/p>\n

This Pew Center report says: “On matters as disparate as environmental protection, support for the social safety net and immigration, former areas of bipartisan agreement have dissolved as Democrats have moved left and Republicans have shifted to the right, according to a major new study by the Pew Research Center, which has tracked American values over the past 25 years.” Now, this survey found that young people today are less politically engaged, less religious, and yet more positive about government and what it can do than ever before. This polarization has important practical consequences. It basically indicates that there will be continued gridlock in national politics. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna tell you something. That\u2019s fine. If the choice is more Obamaism and more liberalism or gridlock, we take the gridlock, because that stops them. Well, you stop and think of this. You know how sharp the racial division in this country have been. For the political divisions to be more extreme, to have more emotion attached to \u2019em, that\u2019s big. And it is on issues like environment. It\u2019s on issues like abortion. It\u2019s on issues like the social safety net. It\u2019s about the very future of the country. That\u2019s why these divisions are so sharp, because that\u2019s what this is about. What kind of country are we gonna be? What kind of leaders are we going to have? What will be the makeup of our population? What will be the American purpose? What will become the American ideal? That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. This sharp division results — and this is gonna be, I\u2019m sure, a bone of contention with a lot of people. <\/p>\n

I expect a lot of people are not going to understand this, they\u2019re gonna think this is a very simplistic analysis. But I think we owe all of this or the vast majority of it to the left. And the reason I say that is, we conservatives do not try to force anything on anybody, other than individual liberty and freedom. If we like broccoli, it\u2019s enough that we like it. We are not gonna have a law or policy demanding that you eat it. And if we don\u2019t like it, we\u2019re not gonna try to stop you from eating it. They do. They want the most powerful forces in this country controlling all of us, the government. We don\u2019t. We have been rendered almost in an entirely defensive posture. We are content to obey the tenets of the Declaration of Independence. Pursue life, liberty, and happiness. They are content to take those away. Not content; they are on a mission to deny those things. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder that there is this massive partisan divide. But as I listen to people on the left, as I read comments posted to blogs, and I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s news, sports, I don\u2019t care what it is, as I look at the comments posted by the left, there is no thinking going on there. It\u2019s pure mind-numbed robotics. It is the walking brain-dead. Now, I\u2019m not saying this to be provocative or insulting. I\u2019m trying to accurately describe it and what we are up against. I think I know what some of the root causes are. I think one of the major root causes — and it\u2019s been there forever, and it\u2019s been effervescing forever. We just happen to be alive when it has boiled over, and a lot of it is income inequality. A lot of it is money, and for everybody who says it\u2019s not the money, quadruple the impact that it is the money. It\u2019s so much about that. It\u2019s haves and have-nots, jealousy, envy, that\u2019s the main thing the left has been able to exploit. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had a number of isms. Communism exploited class differences. Nazism exploited racial differences. The point is whatever ism it is, people on the left are constantly trying to exploit and divide, and they pick whatever they think is the most direct route to somebody\u2019s heart and mind. And they are mostly concerned with the heart. It\u2019s easier than getting into somebody\u2019s head. They control education. They\u2019re able to shape young people who already, because of youth, are idealistic. We are at a very, very crucial point in history for ourselves and the country. And this partisanship divide is not something from which there\u2019s a bridge. Yeah, there might be individual instances where a liberal has his mind changed. <\/p>\n

<\/a>You ever hear of conservatives that become liberal? See, I think John O\u2019Sullivan, former editor, National Review, had a loosely knit theorem. I\u2019m gonna have to paraphrase it. I don\u2019t have it right in front of me, but essentially any person or thing who was not conservative would, by definition, become liberal. Conservatism is a constant daily intellectual application and pursuit. Liberalism is the most gutless thing you can do. It\u2019s easy. And it\u2019s what everybody devolves to if they are not actively, thoughtfully conservative. You don\u2019t hear of people being persuaded to liberalism. They more or less just become it. There are instances where liberals have been converted to conservatism, and it\u2019s probably more than the left would like to believe, and this show has had a profound role in that, and Tom Daschle no less has indicated that, former Senate majority leader in the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

But right now all this talk of compromise and crossing the aisle and reaching out and the great independents here in the middle, they just want us all to get along. Folks, there isn\u2019t any of that. You listen to Obama, longing for John McCain to be his opponent. Why? ‘Cause McCain agreed with him about campaign finance reform and the environment. McCain agreed with him. What did that mean? It meant McCain caved. It meant that McCain presented no opposition. Obama\u2019s not interested in compromising with anybody. Nobody on the left is interested in meeting halfway. And we shouldn\u2019t be, either, when we\u2019re talking about core beliefs and principles. And so this partisan divide has resulted from a reality that people in positions of power on both sides of the divide realize. There is no getting along; there\u2019s only defeat. We have to defeat these people. We have to keep them a permanent electoral minority.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This Pew survey that shows “a sharp increase in partisanship,” more so than even racial divides or religious divides. The… um… How I put this? The Wizards of Smart in politics — the political consultants, the advisers, the (quote, unquote) “experts” — who advise people how to win in the business of politics have been scratching their heads lately. Because there is this wonderful, great partisan divide in Congress. And, as you know, everybody\u2019s wringing their hands over it.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t they work together?<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t we just get along?<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t there any compromise?<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t we get some bills?<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t we get some legislation?<\/p>\n

So the analysts have been saying, “What\u2019s going on here?” Is it that members of Congress are actually that entrenched in their ideology? Or are they afraid of their voters (who are the “real extremists,” quote, unquote), and they\u2019re simply reflecting their voters? And they\u2019ve been scratching their heads, all these experts, trying to figure it out. The hot debate is whether the trench warfare so obvious in Congress involves conflicts among elected officials and political interest groups or reflect a deeper divide among voters.<\/p>\n

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And what the survey indicates is that members of Congress are no different than the population the large. The trench warfare in Congress is simply being repeated and replicated into trench warfare in the culture. And we know that there is trench warfare in the culture, and Wisconsin\u2019s the focal point of it right now, but it\u2019s everywhere. Now, back to John O\u2019Sullivan. Something (some person, some institution) that is not, by definition, conservative will become liberal.<\/p>\n

Let me read to you the charter of the very Foundation that did this survey, the Pew Foundation. The charter of the Pew Freedom Trust “in 1957 spelled out that Pew intended to ‘acquaint the American people\u2019 with ‘the evils of bureaucracy,\u2019 ‘the values of a free market,\u2019 and ‘the paralyzing effects of government controls on the lives and activities of people.\u2019 Pew also wanted to ‘inform our people of the struggle, persecution, hardship, sacrifice and death by which freedom of the individual was won.'”<\/p>\n

The Pew Foundation was begun by the conservative oil magnate J. Howard Pew — and like all of these foundations, it\u2019s been turned upside down. Here\u2019s a foundation that started much like the Ford Foundation did. You know, you hear about all these foundations, and they\u2019re all solidly liberal now. The left took \u2019em over. Most of them were founded by dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. But over the years, the people that were hired there were not active conservatives. They moderated and became centrists or independents.<\/p>\n

Finally, the libs moved in and took over, because if it isn\u2019t a conservative organization (applied each and every day) it\u2019s going to become liberal. And it\u2019s happened to Pew. It\u2019s happened to the Ford Foundation. It\u2019s happened to practically all of them. When the founder is out of the way, that\u2019s when the mischief begins. And the left exists to wait, bide their time, and take these places over. And the only way is if the people that run the place start waffling or caving or simply stop being conservative.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing in Congress.<\/p>\n

We wonder: “What happens to all these conservatives who run for election?” Members of the House, they run and they campaign as ardent conservatives. And all of a sudden they get there, and it isn\u2019t long before they\u2019re just mashed potatoes. Why? This is one of the reasons. If they do not actively pursue their conservatism every day — and believe me, it\u2019s hard. When the dominant culture is liberalism (social, to boot, is liberal) and everybody wants to get along, everybody wants to have friends, everybody wants to be accepted, everybody wants to be in the clique, what do you do?<\/p>\n

You start caving, you start compromising, you start sacrificing, and you stop being conservative — and then it\u2019s over. And this is why the Tea Party exists, by the way, and it\u2019s why dyed-in-the-wool conservatives are so insistent that things be (and remain) conservative, because the great reality is that the moment the committed, locked-into mission of conservatism weakens, liberalism is like a tsunami: It just sweeps in.<\/p>\n

It is safe to say that Mr. J. Howard Pew would not recognize his Foundation today.<\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t have the slightest idea.<\/p>\n

If he came back to life, he\u2019d be scratching his head and say, “What the hell happened?” Same thing with the Ford Foundation. There\u2019s any number of others. I just can\u2019t think of the names off the top of my head. But it\u2019s what happens. And that\u2019s why conservative voters reward conservatives who don\u2019t waiver, who stick to it. It\u2019s why they\u2019re so admired. It\u2019s why they are celebrated, rewarded, and built up. And it\u2019s why the people who cave are so resented and disliked, because it\u2019s a betrayal. Andrew Carnegie! The Carnegie Foundation is totally run by the left. Andrew Carnegie was a conservative. He was a radical conservative by today\u2019s standards, even.<\/p>\n

His foundation has been taken over.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why there isn\u2019t a Limbaugh Foundation.<\/p>\n

The last thing I\u2019m gonna have is have it become a liberal bunch of you-know-what. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom in Odessa, Florida. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks, Rush. I\u2019d like to say hello to my bride of 25 years, my lovely wife Debbie, and my good friend Mark.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have the same anniversary date as Kathryn and I do, June 5th?<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Well, it was May 16th for us, but it was just a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, close enough for government work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But anyway, in regard to compromising with these brain-dead liberals and the idea of compromising, it\u2019s crazy. I want to hearken back to The Gong Show and Chuck Barris back in the early seventies, he had a saying which I always loved. He said, “I have three things to say about that: so what, who cares, and get lost.” Well, in regard to these brain-dead liberals going forward, I want to change that mantra to the following. Defeat \u2019em, ignore \u2019em, and leave \u2019em behind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I like it. Those are the directives. Defeat \u2019em is the objective. There is no compromise. In fact, now, that you brought this up, look, Tom, thanks for the call. Grab sound bites 34 and 35. Cookie got me a couple of sound bites from the Luntz focus group last night with Hannity. There\u2019s a lot of shouting back and forth. I haven\u2019t heard the bites. I watched the show, but I had closed-captioning on so I was able to read more than I could hear. I could see these people\u2019s facial expressions, too. <\/line><\/p>\n

But the first bite, Hannity says to Luntz, “Frank, Governor Walker ran on a platform, and he followed through. He inherited $3.6 billion in the budget deficit. Now the state has a surplus. He has 23,000 new jobs in the state, 6.7% unemployment, much lower than the national average. Are these people in your group not happy with these results? Are they not happy knowing that the state can\u2019t continue to borrow and spend to create these deficits? Are they not happy knowing that these circumstances have been fixed?” So then Luntz and the group and two unidentified female participants have this little exchange.<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: The first question that got asked, “Do you believe those statistics, yes or no?” (crowd simultaneously responds yes and no) Okay, who believes them? Who does not believe \u2019em? You don\u2019t believe \u2019em? But these are official numbers.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Like I said earlier, the numbers on the jobs are the jobs Walker\u2019s <\/a>created, but it doesn\u2019t talk about the jobs that Walker\u2019s taken away, and those way outweigh what\u2019s been created.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Are those minimum wage jobs and we\u2019re losing high-end jobs? That\u2019s not enough money for a family of four to live on, the jobs he\u2019s creating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the facts were put out; but, no, no, it\u2019s not true. We\u2019re not telling you about the jobs that Walker\u2019s destroyed. Unemployment rate\u2019s come down, the state has a budget surplus. I\u2019ll tell you what to really learn about this, folks. The terms of the debate that we get into, they don\u2019t care. They didn\u2019t care the state was running a big deficit, and they don\u2019t care that the deficit\u2019s become a surplus. They didn\u2019t care about all the rising unemployment, as long as it wasn\u2019t them, they didn\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care what other people in the state earn or don\u2019t earn. They don\u2019t care if people in the state were being fired or hired. All they care about is, is their pension gonna continue, and are they going to have pay anything for it? <\/p>\n

The condition of the state, the circumstances of their fellow citizens, they don\u2019t care. And that\u2019s why this argument never had a meeting point or a middle ground. Hannity and Luntz are talking to \u2019em about the budget deficit coming down, becoming a surplus. They don\u2019t care. They didn\u2019t care that it was a deficit. They\u2019re not impressed that it\u2019s a surplus. They couldn\u2019t care less about the financial health of the state. They don\u2019t see that that has a relationship to their economic circumstance. It doesn\u2019t matter to them. They don\u2019t care that there have been massive numbers of new jobs created and unemployment has fallen. They don\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

All they care about is whether or not their fellow union buddies still have the same benefits and the same work schedules with no salary cuts. That\u2019s all they care about. It\u2019s the same as if the only source of money was the printing press, and the printing press broke. They wouldn\u2019t care, as long as whatever amount of money was available they got most of. They don\u2019t care about what creates the wealth. They don\u2019t think that way. As far as they\u2019re concerned, the wealth is always going to be there. It doesn\u2019t need to be created; government has it. That\u2019s all they think about. Government has all wealth, and it\u2019s their job to get as much of what government has, and what happens to anybody else, they don\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why this focus group didn\u2019t go anywhere last night. You could hit \u2019em all day with the unemployment rate coming down, hit \u2019em all day with the deficit becoming surplus. They don\u2019t care. As far as they\u2019re concerned it has nothing to do with their way of life. It has nothing to do with their pensions and nothing to do with their health care. They couldn\u2019t care less if the state is bankrupt, as long as they have their health care, and as long as they have their union benefits, and as long as they have their pension, they don\u2019t care about anything else. It\u2019s the epitome of selfishness, coupled with a profound sense of entitlement. <\/p>\n

For some reason they feel entitled to a majority share of the wealth, \u2019cause they\u2019re union, because they\u2019re… I don\u2019t know why. They do nevertheless feel it. So this thing continued. And Hannity said, “I want to go back to the woman in the back there. Frank, I want to talk to her. The choice was $3.6 billion in state deficit, small population, relatively speaking, governor says we gotta pull back on some of these benefits, gotta make some parity with the private sector, save everybody\u2019s job. Nobody lost a job as the result of Walker\u2019s plan. He brought $3.6 billion to a surplus. How can you not say that this is not a good thing for your state?”<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Yeah, that is good, but that\u2019s not all true. I just don\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

HANNITY: So what part is not true? <\/p>\n

WOMAN: We\u2019ve seen jobs lost.<\/p>\n

HANNITY: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: We\u2019ve incomes go down.<\/p>\n

HANNITY: What part is not true?<\/p>\n

WOMAN: The budget that Scott Walker inherited was actually in the black. Scott Walker falsely created a budget crisis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Walker didn\u2019t inherit a deficit. He inherited a surplus, and then he created a deficit all to screw the union. They are certifiable, they are nuts, but they don\u2019t care. There was a surplus. Walker inherited a surplus, but he turned that into a deficit to screw us. That\u2019s what they think.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me remind you what these union people of Wisconsin are really ticked off about. They were asked… Part of Walker\u2019s plan is they were asked to pay 12% of their health care costs and to contribute 5% to their pensions, and that\u2019s what set them off. They don\u2019t think they should have to pay for anything that they think is a “benefit.” They think other people, their fellow citizens, should pay for their health care and their pensions. And they don\u2019t care about their fellow citizens\u2019 economic circumstances.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what ticked \u2019em off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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