{"id":278307,"date":"2018-07-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=278307"},"modified":"2021-07-13T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T13:34:59","slug":"tweak-the-left-by-being-as-american-as-you-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/03\/tweak-the-left-by-being-as-american-as-you-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweak the Left by Being as American as You Can Be!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Tomorrow\u2019s the Fourth of July. Yeah, I know. I know. Everybody knows, but here\u2019s what you may not remember. There was a Harvard study<\/a> — I had this some years ago — by the way, greetings. I am America\u2019s Real Anchorman, and I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

Remember that survey from Harvard that Fourth of July, just on its own, Independence Day celebrations tend to make people feel more Republican? And the same survey had the same data about the flag, that the flag flying along with all the traditional social behavior that takes place on the Fourth of July tends to promote feelings of the Republican Party. People obviously are motivated toward patriotic, love-of-country themes and ideas.<\/p>\n

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And it struck home with me because it also had the counterpart that this kind of activity angered Democrats. Flying the flag, engaging in traditional Independence Day Fourth of July behavior. And if you doubted it then, you should not doubt it now. I made a point on yesterday\u2019s program: What\u2019s wrong with America remaining America? And of course that\u2019s the objective of the people currently protesting, say, getting rid of ICE or whatever. They want to transform and change America.<\/p>\n

So I would suggest everybody fly your flag tomorrow — be American. Go out and just do what you would normally be inclined to do, but don\u2019t be intimidated in flying the flag, don\u2019t be intimidated by any patriotic activity, because you never know the impact it\u2019s gonna have on people. These effects on that Harvard survey were not just outward. Some of them were subliminal. You never know where this kind of influence could take place.<\/p>\n

But I just wanted to remind everybody of that, if those plans that you have tomorrow include such outward — even the lighting of fireworks. The left doesn\u2019t even like that because that could lead to climate change and forest fires, any number of things. Stop and think about it. There\u2019s literally very little that happens on Independence Day that liberals celebrate and want to be part of.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is…? What did I do with sound bite number…? Did I put them at the bottom of The Stack<\/a>? I bet I did thinking I wasn\u2019t gonna use \u2019em. Yes. There they are. By the way, the Harvard study… Let me run some of the details of this. This was from a U.S. News & World Report magazine story from seven years ago, June 30, 2011. The headline: “Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing — University study says parades turn youngsters into Republicans.” Are you remembering this?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s couple of sections, pull quotes from the article. “Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend\u2019s July 4th parades. A new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only Republicans, turn kids into Republicans, and help to boost the GOP turnout of adults on Election Day. Fourth of July celebrations in the United States shape the nation\u2019s political landscape by forming beliefs and increasing participation, primarily in favor of the Republican Party,” said the report from Harvard.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols …” Why would that be? Somebody…? (interruption) Wait a second, now. “The political right has been more successful in appropriating…”? Appropriating? They\u2019re there. The flag is the flag. Independence Day is Independence Day. What do you mean, “appropriating”? Turning it into patriotism? What is it? Is it a day we\u2019re not supposed to be patriotic?<\/p>\n

This is why I asked the question yesterday: What\u2019s wrong with America remaining America? You know, that really is what is at stake here. I stumbled into the line. It was not something that I brainstormed the night before. I was reading something about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some of this new wave of socialists and communists in the Democrat Party. I just said, “What\u2019s wrong with America remaining America?” Because that crystallizes it. This whole immigration battle, open borders, no borders is about changing or erasing America as it is.<\/p>\n

And the battle is between those who want America to remain America and those who don\u2019t. Harvard seven years ago with this study saying that Fourth of July parades, the flag, the national anthem, cookouts, barbecues, all of these things turn young people into Republicans. Now, we know that that\u2019s not universal. I mean, there\u2019s obviously a bunch of kids of Democrats… Well, “no” wait a minute. I was going to say that we have to know a lot of kids that Democrats have gone to Fourth of July parades and after it\u2019s over remain Democrats.<\/p>\n

So maybe they don\u2019t go! (laughing) Maybe… Maybe these are the people that don\u2019t waive their flag… Remember, Tom Brokaw speaking for American journalists said, “I can\u2019t put an American flag lapel pin on my suit! I have to retain my objectivity. I have to remain an objective journalist. I cannot pick sides.” American journalists can\u2019t pick sides, even though the library of every journalist\u2019s freedom is the United States of America. But they can\u2019t choose sides.<\/p>\n

I just found it interesting. And now we have a Gallup poll.<\/a> “The share of Democrats and liberals who say that they\u2019re extremely proud to be American has collapsed since 2013.” Let\u2019s see. “Fewer than one in three Democrats” that\u2019s less than 33% “are extremely proud to be Americans. Democrat opinion of America is down and Republican opinion is up since Trump took office.” Now, admittedly some of this is due to Democrat disappointment that Trump won and Hillary lost, and so there is a significant amount of depression and mental disease that has swept over certain sectors of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

And, of course, “No, I\u2019m not proud of my country! My country elected Donald Trump. I, of course…” But that\u2019s not what the poll asked. It asked, “Are you proud to be American?” That ought to be independent of whoever\u2019s in the White House. I understand for a lot of people it isn\u2019t. So it turns out that David Asman on Fox, the Fox Business Channel, happened to get hold of my question, innocently probed yesterday, “What\u2019s wrong with America remaining America?”<\/a> And he decided to discuss that. We have… Let\u2019s see here. Audio sound bites two and three. Here\u2019s Asman on — he was cohosting Lou Dobbs Tonight.<\/p>\n

ASMAN: Rush Limbaugh, the great one himself, hammering the Dems who are calling for the abolishment of ICE and their dangerous open border policy.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Can I ask a question? Is there anything wrong with America remaining America? But to the left there is something inherently wrong with America remaining America. That\u2019s what their open-borders policy is all about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then Asman weighed in as to his thoughts on it…<\/p>\n

ASMAN: You have assimilation and you have rule of law, and that\u2019s exactly what the Democrats are breaking with, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want America to be what America could be and what it has been. There is the left wing of the party — which seems to be morphing into the mainstream of the Democratic Party — and they don\u2019t want America to be accomplishing. They feel guilty about America. The old liberal guilt really exists. I mean, they feel guilty about it. They don\u2019t care how they get rid of their guilt, no matter what damage it does to the America that most Americans, I think, love.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I used to think this. I used to believe it was guilt, and those of you who have been lifer listeners of this program know that. I think it\u2019s gone beyond guilt now. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re guilty. I think they\u2019re filled with hatred. I think it has morphed. I mean, there may be some people who are still, you know, guilty about America\u2019s wealth and standard of living and power and prominence and think that because of their guilt, to assuage it they need to overwhelmingly support giving a lot of it away.<\/p>\n

To people around the world who are, quote-unquote, “less fortune,” but I think that\u2019s a minority. I think that guilt has morphed into hatred. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it. Whatever it is, guilt or hatred, there is a rising percentage of the Democrat Party that simply doesn\u2019t like this country and does not think America should remain America. Now, we have, interestingly here from the Campus Reform website<\/a>, a video of one of their media directors, Cabot Phillips, asking several New York University students if they\u2019re in fact proud to be American and here\u2019s that montage…<\/p>\n