{"id":296358,"date":"2019-01-11T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296358"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:37:52","slug":"theres-nothing-un-american-about-a-wall-but-it-shouldnt-be-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/11\/theres-nothing-un-american-about-a-wall-but-it-shouldnt-be-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Nothing Un-American About a Wall — But It Shouldn\u2019t Be Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to run by you this wall. There are a lot of people — let me clarify. When I say “a lot,” there\u2019s some people, I mean, some that are in media in politics and then there are some people I know in my private life who just think the whole idea of a wall and the United States, those two things are just incompatible. Maybe Israel has one and maybe people have walls around their estate, their homes or whatever, but we\u2019re the United States of America. We don\u2019t wall ourselves off from anybody or anything.<\/p>\n

\"\"And these are not people that don\u2019t think there\u2019s a problem; they do. They think there\u2019s every bit of problem that you and I think with uncontrolled illegal immigration. They\u2019ve got the politics on it correctly. They know the Democrat Party\u2019s largely behind this, largely supportive of it. Some elements of the Republican Party too. These are not people that don\u2019t want to do anything about it. They want to bring it to a screeching halt. They just think that a wall is not something that a giant superpower does.<\/p>\n

Now, these people happen to be of a certain age that the biggest wall in their lifetimes was the Berlin Wall, and that was a wall to keep people in. When communists build walls, it\u2019s mostly to keep people from escaping. And if your formative years, your formative experiences have to do with walls being of that nature, then it\u2019s somewhat understandable that you might not be in favor of a wall on the southern border.<\/p>\n

These people say, “We wouldn\u2019t any more think of putting a wall on the northern border. What is it? Are we admitting that we really can\u2019t stop this with ordinary border crossing?\u201d And people say, \u201cDamn right we can\u2019t. There\u2019s too much of it that\u2019s unprotected and can\u2019t be. We don\u2019t have the personnel.\u201d We don\u2019t. You know what we\u2019re really missing or have been up \u2019til now is the political will to do anything about it. I don\u2019t want to be redundant and waste a lot of time rehashing why the Democrats don\u2019t want to stop illegals. We know full well.<\/p>\n

The crisis here really is the Democrat Party, folks. Because to me it\u2019s totally understandable that poor, impoverished people from relatively nearby — I mean, who in their right mind would not want to come to the United States? For whatever reason, if you look at it as a giant welfare state, who wouldn\u2019t want to come here? If you look at it as the land of opportunity, who wouldn\u2019t want to come here? Anybody in their right mind would want to come here.<\/p>\n

There is more prosperity, there is more opportunity, there is more liberty, there\u2019s more freedom, there\u2019s more of everything that\u2019s good in this country than anywhere else in the world. It\u2019s the only place in the country where there\u2019s expectation of economic advancement, there\u2019s expectation of prosperity.<\/p>\n

In most countries around the world — and this is something a lot of Americans I don\u2019t think are aware of because they\u2019ve never lived anywhere else. Few have ever been anywhere else. And so it\u2019s tough to realize that for the mass of humidity, the vast majority humanity since the beginning of time, life has been spent in bondage of one kind or another. Most governments are tyrannical. Most governments are dictatorial. Most governments do not feature of and by and for the people in anything.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a guarantee of opportunity, much less economic prosperity, not even in the European socialist economies. They have kind of been whittled away now to centralized government. And economic expectations are really determined by your birth in many of these the countries. If you\u2019re born to an aristocracy, then you\u2019re gonna be an aristocrat. If you\u2019re not, you\u2019re up the creek much like the caste system in India.<\/p>\n

So to me it\u2019s entirely reasonable that poor people, especially as close by as Mexico, would want to get into this country. That\u2019s not the crisis. It\u2019s common sense. The crisis is the American left. The crisis is the Democrat Party, and to a certain extent certain elements of the Republican Party, who look at these people as nothing more than serfs, pawns, people to help them maintain current economic status or political status. They\u2019re either cheap labor or they are guaranteed voters. They\u2019re not looked at as anything other than that.<\/p>\n

\"\"They arrive, and the people that want \u2019em to come here want \u2019em to stay uneducated, want \u2019em to stay poor, want them to stay dependent. To me, every problem we\u2019ve got regarding illegal immigration can be focused on the American political system and specifically the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is openly in favor of this crisis because they have structured themselves purposefully to benefit from it.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party in November of 2011 made the decision to abandon the white working class voter constituency. And in casting them aside — and this includes many blue-collar union people, too — in casting that group of people aside the Democrat Party determined that the changing demographics of this country meant that the Democrat Party\u2019s route to perpetual power was to become the party of all minorities combined into one voting bloc.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what the Democrat Party is assembling. That, and there\u2019s one other group, the uber-wealthy. The uber-wealthy and Hollywood in finance and in Silicon Valley. That\u2019s the Democrat constituent. Those are the donors. Those are the people that are culled to help the Democrats do their tech electoral stuff. But your base Democrat voter is increasingly uneducated, of lower economic circumstance with not much hope of betterment. And since they do need a permanent underclass, keep the borders open.<\/p>\n

And then people say, \u201cRush, a wall? I know what Trump\u2019s saying, I really do, Rush, I know where you\u2019re coming from. It\u2019s not what America is. America doesn\u2019t do walls.\u201d And I understand what they\u2019re saying. To these people that I\u2019m referring to, a wall is in response with giving up. A wall means we can\u2019t protect ourselves any other way and people don\u2019t like the concept of America or Americans giving up.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m convinced — and I have people telling me that I\u2019m wrong about this every time I mention it. But I\u2019m convinced that when Trump as a candidate kept talking about the wall, I think it\u2019s always been symbolic.\u00a0 But the way things have evolved, it has now become real.\u00a0 We already have fencing in a lot of places and we have certain areas of our border where walls and slats have been built, and it is a reality, and they work.\u00a0 I\u2019m not arguing that walls don\u2019t work and I don\u2019t want to… In fact, I\u2019m not even arguing against the wall here.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t misunderstand me.\u00a0 I\u2019m just telling you I think the real problem here — the real focus as it is in most everything else that we find ourselves engaged in — is liberalism.\u00a0 The left, communism, socialism, the Democrat Party.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we have a crisis here.\u00a0 We cannot unify around the idea that there ought to be a defend border and that there are laws determining who is and who intent eligible to become a citizen, and until people follow that route they are not gonna be let in.\u00a0 We can\u2019t even come to unity on that?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotten to the point where the Democrat Party and certain Republican interests want there to be open borders because these people are needed for others in the Democrat Party to maintain their status, their political power, and their economic circumstances.\u00a0 I think a lot of people are this way and they\u2019ve gotten to the point now the wall is the only thing that\u2019s gonna work since there isn\u2019t a unified objective here of defending a country and maintaining our sovereignty.\u00a0 I just…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a challenging thing because when I hear these people tell me, they almost sound pained to think that there\u2019s gonna be a gigantic wall.\u00a0 But then, folks, if you look around the world, there are walls everywhere.\u00a0 They\u2019re going up and they\u2019ve been going up since the beginning of time\u00a0 — and they work is the reason why they\u2019re going up.\u00a0 There\u2019s a gigantic wall in Syria to keep certain elements out.\u00a0 The Israelis had to build a wall.\u00a0 The Vatican has a wall.<\/p>\n

You know the drill about how all these people are hypocrites because they use walls to defend and protect their property and themselves, but somehow the same thinking doesn\u2019t attach itself to the country at large.\u00a0 I think… Don\u2019t misunderstand. (chuckling) I\u2019m not trying to talk Trump out of this.\u00a0 Do not misunderstand.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten to the point where whatever it takes to defeat the left — within civilized boundaries, of course.\u00a0 I\u2019m not off the deep end on this.\u00a0 I just think they\u2019re the problem. More and more people out to be aware they\u2019re the problem.<\/p>\n