{"id":228495,"date":"2017-04-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228495"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:36:17","slug":"the-left-doesnt-respect-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/06\/the-left-doesnt-respect-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Doesn\u2019t Respect the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Dave, Fort Wayne, Indiana. You\u2019re next, and welcome. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. It took 7,312 dials and one new battery, but I got through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you did. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Yes. I actually wanted to mention a couple things. But you hit the nail on the head, I think, yesterday when you mentioned the Democrats, the authoritarians, as a legitimate hate group. But your analogy also was radical Islam. I just thought that was so accurate of an interpretation of how they think and where they go. I think they\u2019ll go to the point of beheading (chuckling), the way they play their games. It\u2019s amazed me since the Bush administration. The Republicans seem like they\u2019ve never learned. This is bare knuckle, and they always leave their gloves on, and it\u2019s just amazing they do that.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, you know, that\u2019s the thing. The point that I was making yesterday, if you didn\u2019t hear it — and you heard Dave here say that my comparison to Islam and the Democrats is right on — you probably need me to explain that to you. It was Sharia Islam that I was comparing the Democrats to. It\u2019s all rooted in the fact that the Democrat Party… The left. Forget Democrat Party. The left, the leftists, communist, socialists, whatever. The Democrats are just a faction of it, and they no longer respect the authority of the Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only authority that they respect is their power, and therefore there is no such thing as bipartisanship with them. And this is the mistake that I hear Republicans continuing to make even now on campaign trails. You will hear… Like Thom Tillis, senator from North Carolina, Republican, to this day campaigns on the notion that we need to be able to reach across the aisle and to reach compromise, and show that we can govern together. And that\u2019s not who they are. They don\u2019t want compromise! They don\u2019t respect us. We are not legitimate.<\/p>\n

We are enemies.<\/p>\n

We are as big an enemy as any other enemy they have.<\/p>\n

Their objective is total rule over the United States, not sharing power one election to the next. They do not respect the authority of elections. You ever wonder why they…? I\u2019ve had people say, “Rush, why don\u2019t they realize they\u2019ve lost? I mean, they didn\u2019t win. The Republicans did.” That\u2019s a great question to use as an illustration. They don\u2019t accept that they lost. They\u2019re never gonna behave as though they lost, because they don\u2019t respect the authority of the Constitution. The Constitution is what every elected official swears an oath to. The reason for that is the Constitution is the glue.<\/p>\n

Have you ever…? Folks, think of it this way. We have this massively unique, greatest country ever. However you wish to categorize it — in economic wealth, in standard of living, in military power, in superpower status in the world — there isn\u2019t a country that has ever been like we are. There isn\u2019t a country that\u2019s ever even been close! There isn\u2019t a country now that is close. We are the first country in the history of the world to enshrine in our founding the principle that people of the country are free by virtue of their creation, and their rights come from God, not from other men or governments.<\/p>\n

And we are the first and the only country founded and created, enshrined with the values that it is the people who run this country. And elections are the mechanism by which we choose the people who will lead it. And what holds this together? All it is is a piece of paper. It\u2019s a series, however many pieces of paper the Constitution is. That\u2019s it. Throughout our nearly 250 years, we have had a majority of our population accept and agree and obey the notion that the Constitution is the defining authority of our country, that it is the glue that holds us together as a culture, as a society.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rather stunning to me that it\u2019s lasted this long, because the only way it can work is if a majority of the people in this country — including the people elected — honor it. What is the penalty for not honoring it? Well, we\u2019re seeing right now there isn\u2019t one. In the Civil War, if you didn\u2019t honor it, Abe Lincoln came after you and wiped the floor with you until you agreed to stop the secession and rejoin the Union. What penalty is there today for spitting on it, for ignoring it? There isn\u2019t any! I don\u2019t quite know how to express this.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing to me that we do not require a national military or police force to keep people in line. It has been nothing but the sworn fealty to that document, the cherished belief in that cherished document of how great it is. Well, where we are right now the Democrat Party, the American left is demonstrating it doesn\u2019t believe any such thing. It doesn\u2019t want to have to respect the authority of that document, and it\u2019s in the process of demonstrating that they don\u2019t. Elections don\u2019t mean diddly-squat to them. Public opinion doesn\u2019t mean diddly-squat to them.<\/p>\n

\"\"The only thing that matters to them is their authority. Anybody challenging their authority? There\u2019s no negotiation. There\u2019s no debate. There\u2019s no attempt to persuade. All there is is an effort to destroy anybody who rejects their authority. When their leader happens to win the election, there is total respect for that leader\u2019s authority. When they don\u2019t win the election, the only thing they\u2019re devoted to is destroying the leader with whom they disagree. There\u2019s no effort to work together. There\u2019s no compromise. There\u2019s no bipartisanship.<\/p>\n

All of that is a giant myth. My analogy was there\u2019s something else like that on the planet today, and it\u2019s called Sharia Islam. If you don\u2019t accept the principle of Sharia Islam, you know what can happen to you, and there\u2019s no compromise. In this analogy the GOP, you and me? We\u2019re the infidels, and the Democrats are the Sharia Islam believers. They\u2019re not interested in what we think, just like Sharia Islam doesn\u2019t care what you think of various aspects of Sharia. If you don\u2019t respect it, you are gonna be dealt with one way or the other.<\/p>\n

But your ideas and your heart and your mind don\u2019t matter one hell of a bit, and that\u2019s where we are. And you see it every day here in the way the Democrat Party and the media and the left is conducting itself. What is their number one objective today? To get rid of the people who won the election, because they do not respect or even acknowledge… It\u2019s not even a matter of respect. They don\u2019t even acknowledge the authority that the Constitution vests in the winners of elections. Now, I know politics has always been a battle for power, but this is my point.<\/p>\n

For all of the years of this great country, whatever opposing political factions we\u2019ve had, at the end of the day there has been an acknowledgment that there\u2019s something greater than either of our movements, and it\u2019s the Constitution. There\u2019s no giant gun enforcing it. There\u2019s no giant military making people obey it. Some might say that what we are in the midst of is a movement committing treason against this Constitution. What is the way treason is dealt with in the Constitution? Well, whatever it is is not being used against the left. And, folks, when you stop and think about it (I\u2019ve tried to express it as cleanly as I can), it\u2019s inarguable.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no bipartisanship.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no understanding.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no compromise.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply a lack of respect and acknowledgment of the authority that the Constitution vests in the way our politics is handled in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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