{"id":16857,"date":"2012-01-13T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-13T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:13:52","slug":"only_2_hate_the_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/13\/only_2_hate_the_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 2% Hate the 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So the Gallup poll is out, two different Gallup polls. According to Gallup, for more than three years now, 40% of Americans describe their views as conservative; 35% as moderate; 21% as liberal. So, as I so poignantly, saliently inquired the previous hour, why is it that all of the polling organizations like Gallup continue to oversample Democrats and independents? Forty percent conservative. We know they\u2019re not Democrats. What percentage do you think might be Democrat? There might be some in there. The old Reagan Democrats, so forth. But given our culture and given the way the media presents life in this country, this is a stunning poll result: 40% of people identify themselves as being conservative.<\/p>\n<p><a view=\"full\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/1675\/most-important-problem.aspx\"><img id=\"eZObject_58108\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGallupPolls585.jpg\"\/><\/a>That\u2019s a little short of amazing. Just imagine how conservative this country would be if we had a level playing field. Imagine how conservative this country would be if conservatism was not-of-was an maligned, impugned, laughed at, made fun of, and all that. Imagine if the entire establishment, the news media, the entertainment industry, educational system, publishing, imagine if they were not all lockstep liberals, imagine what this country would be like. In other words, imagine if more people were allowed to hear more of the truth. This is why, folks, for me it\u2019s all ideological. Ideas are ideological. It\u2019s not party versus party. It\u2019s liberal versus everybody else. And that\u2019s why I\u2019ve always believed the more time we spend telling people about liberalism and liberals, the much greater advance we would make.<\/p>\n<p>The second Gallup poll is this one. &#8220;Americans name jobs, the national debt, continuing economic decline, outsourcing, and politicians\u2019 bickering &#8212; including President Obama and Congress &#8212; when asked to say what worries them most about the national economy at this time.&#8221; The first three on the list, the national debt, jobs, and continuing economic decline make up 51%. Those three. The other stuff is small potatoes. You have to go down to the bottom of the list to find out how many people say that the divide between rich and poor is one of their primary concerns. In fact, the number is 2%. Two percent. It\u2019s up there with campaign finance reform. Only 2% consider the divide between rich and poor.<\/p>\n<p>The whole argument for class envy, the whole argument for redistribution, only 2% of the people in this country identify it as something that\u2019s a major concern to them. You got that? That means Occupy Wall Street is a creation of the regime. Occupy Wall Street didn\u2019t gin up on its own. There\u2019s no such thing as a 2% movement that ends up being covered as Occupy Wall Street was. Americans are worried about jobs, the deficit, the economy, not the divide between rich and poor. Now, in polling data, this is interesting, too, if I can remember this. I don\u2019t have it right in front of me. In polling data that I\u2019ve seen of people who are concerned about the divide between the rich and the poor, people are less concerned about what they have than they are more concerned what somebody else has.<\/p>\n<p>See if I can find a better way. In the rich versus poor, the us versus them, the gap between wealth and poverty, whatever, the people on the low end are not upset about what they don\u2019t have. They\u2019re upset what the others do have. That is envy. That is what Obama is playing off of. They\u2019re not unhappy with what they have; they\u2019re ticked off at what others have. Now, you might wonder, what\u2019s the difference? It\u2019s a huge difference. If the majority of them you were unhappy with what they had, that would mean they didn\u2019t care what anybody else has. When they\u2019re more concerned about what others have than what they don\u2019t have, they themselves don\u2019t have, that\u2019s just pure envy, resentment, what have you, and that represents an opportunity for the class envy warriors to go out and exploit \u2019em. All you have to say, &#8220;Oh, yeah, I\u2019ll take it away from \u2019em. I\u2019ll take it away from \u2019em.&#8221; That\u2019s how you get \u2019em. You don\u2019t have to tell \u2019em, &#8220;I\u2019ll give you more.&#8221; You don\u2019t have to say, &#8220;I\u2019ll make sure you end up&#8230;&#8221; You just have to say, &#8220;I\u2019m just gonna go out and sock it to them.&#8221; Two fascinating polls here, both of those are from Gallup. So, again, folks, only 2% hate the 1%.  Two percent, that\u2019s right, yeah, only 2% hate the 1%.  That\u2019s a great way of illustrating.  Only 2% hate the 1%.  The 99% do not hate the 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So the Gallup poll is out, two different Gallup polls. According to Gallup, for more than three years now, 40% of Americans describe their views as conservative; 35% as moderate; 21% as liberal. 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