{"id":15630,"date":"2012-05-21T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-21T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:05:43","slug":"the_intolerance_of_liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/21\/the_intolerance_of_liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intolerance of Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m sitting here thinking more about the ideology of intolerance, the classic liberal. That intolerant teacher in North Carolina was a bully, telling her students that it was criminal to criticize Obama. You know, when you get right down to it, maybe one of the best ways to explain liberalism to the uninitiated is to simply say that it is intolerant. It\u2019s a philosophy of “no.” It\u2019s a philosophy of domination and “no,” and it\u2019s not at all what people think it is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not open-mindedness. It\u2019s not tolerance. It\u2019s not good intentions. It\u2019s not sweetness and light and love and all that. It\u2019s a philosophy of “no.” It is intolerant. Socialism, fascism, communism, all forms of liberalism dictate behavior. You must conform. Individuals? Private businesses? You must conform to what they say. And if you don\u2019t they\u2019ll pass laws and regulations that force you to. And in order to have uniformity, there must be an enforcement mechanism, because people are not the same.<\/p>\n

People don\u2019t want the same things. They don\u2019t believe the same things. But if you are going to have uniformity — which is what liberalism wants, \u2019cause that\u2019s equality to them: everybody being the same. Outcomes especially. Being the same. Nobody richer than anybody else. If you are to have that, you must have an enforcement mechanism that shuts down what? Creativity, choice, and innovation. You have to shut down all the things that differentiate people.<\/p>\n

And in a free society, the things that differentiate people are creativity, choice, and innovation. And that has to be shut down. That is why, folks, an ever-expanding government is job one for liberals. Whatever expands government, whatever makes it bigger: Global warming, feminism, amnesty for illegals, whatever. Whatever needs more regulation, whatever needs more control, is sought “for the common good” and uniformity.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s all for the common good,” they say. But anything that grows the government, that\u2019s job number one for liberals.<\/p>\n

Government is the enforcement mechanism.<\/p>\n

Government is the practical manifestation of the ideology of “no.”<\/p>\n

Government is where the intolerance is.<\/p>\n

Government is the all-powerful engine that prevents innovation and choice and creativity.<\/p>\n

Look at that slideshow that Obama did: “Julia.” That\u2019s how you remake millions of individuals in 50 states into a faceless cartoon. You have a cartoon for your own reelection and you come up with a fictional character: Julia<\/a>, the average American woman who turns to government at every stage of her life when she needs or wants something. Not a husband, not a family, not a church, but to the government.<\/p>\n

The government makes her birth possible.<\/p>\n

The government makes her prenatal care possible.<\/p>\n

The government makes her garden possible.<\/p>\n

Except it\u2019s not hers. It\u2019s a “community garden.”<\/p>\n

So now you have Obama dictating a uniform health insurance policy that has to be purchased by all Americans. HAS TO BE! It\u2019s enforced by a fine. It says “no” to individual needs and wants. If you don\u2019t want health insurance, that doesn\u2019t matter. You have to buy it. If you don\u2019t buy it, there is a fine. A moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. That is the government saying “no.” And the enforcement mechanism is the government.<\/p>\n

“No” to jobs.<\/p>\n

“No” to cheap energy.<\/p>\n

Regulations are variations of the “Just say ‘no'” theme. Regulations are how liberals “just say ‘no.'” Regulations are how they enforce their own intolerance. Regulations and laws are how they enforce their mandated behavioral codes. Obama has said “no” to any budgets. The Democrat Party has said “no” to budgets. Obama has said “no” to the Keystone pipeline. Obama has said “no” to reforming entitlements! He has said “no” to doing anything about runaway debt.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all “Shut up and sit down, America! Do as I say and there won\u2019t be any trouble.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what liberalism is.<\/p>\n

It all stems from a mind-set of intolerance.<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t you criticize Obama! That\u2019s criminal! You can\u2019t criticize a sitting president! That\u2019s sedition; you can\u2019t do it.”<\/p>\n

And the student says<\/a>, “It\u2019s free speech, my First Amendment right.”<\/p>\n

“There isn\u2019t one here!”<\/p>\n

So liberalism is a mind-set of total control. It\u2019s why our schools now favor indoctrination over education. See, freedom of thought is bad to them. We see example after example, be it what you bring from home for lunch or what you say. Lunch from home is not even tolerable! What you bring from home for lunch, a federal agent can regulate! Uniformity is the goal. That\u2019s liberalism, where the people reflect and represent the views of the state, not their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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