{"id":299286,"date":"2019-02-08T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299286"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:43:18","slug":"its-time-to-rise-up-and-defeat-the-socialist-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/08\/its-time-to-rise-up-and-defeat-the-socialist-left\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Rise Up and Defeat the Socialist Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:\u00a0 Look, folks, do not misunderstand me here.\u00a0 I\u2019m not trying to be Debbie Downer about anything.\u00a0 Quite the opposite. Let me analogize it this way for you.\u00a0 During the past 30 years — and I only cite the 30 years because it\u2019s a lot of experience.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t be able to do the program I\u2019m doing today or yesterday or last week 30 years ago.\u00a0 I did not have the experience, the data.\u00a0 I had not acquired enough knowledge and had enough experiences to be able to relate it to things.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a great benefit to have been able to do this.\u00a0 During these past 30 years, I have been a target of Republican women wherever I go, be it socially or at political events — and in some cases, their husbands and Republican men.<\/p>\n

They have approached me and told me that I have to get the party to stop talking about abortion, that it\u2019s killing us.\u00a0 Now, don\u2019t have a knee-jerk reaction and tune out here.\u00a0 This has a point.\u00a0 They would tell me, “We\u2019re losing elections because we have a Christian or Religious Right position on abortion, and we\u2019re targeting ourselves. We just have to forget it.\u00a0 We are fiscal conservatives, but we\u2019ve got to stop this conservative social issue stuff because it\u2019s killing us,” and for all the reasons that we\u2019ve talked about.<\/p>\n

I mean, the men were being henpecked by their wives to shut up about it, and Republicans at large didn\u2019t like thinking they are at the same party with the Religious Right and so forth.\u00a0 Whenever it happened, whenever I was targeted… It happened a lot of places.\u00a0I\u2019d go see the crew for Sunday Night Football and we\u2019d be in a van on the way to dinner.\u00a0 And if it happened to be a Sunday night after an election, boy, would they unload on me. If the Republicans had lost, they would unload!<\/p>\n

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“You gotta get rid of abortion! You gotta…” And every time it happened — be it on a golf course, I don\u2019t care where — I would say to them, “If we don\u2019t get a handle on this, it\u2019s gonna get to the point someday where we\u2019re gonna be killing anybody who is inconvenient, not just babies.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t stand up for life… You\u2019ve gotta stop looking at this as some sort of Religious Right issue and thinking you can\u2019t be part of it because you don\u2019t want to be lumped in with a bunch of Christians or a bunch of religious zealots in your mind.<\/p>\n

“This is about the fundamental thing we all only have one of, and it\u2019s a life, and we have a political party which is pushing every day for the right to kill whoever they think is inconvenient — and they\u2019re gonna do it one way or the other.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna do it with law. They\u2019re gonna do it with health care,” and every time I would point this out, they would pooh-pooh me and say that I was being paranoid and irrational, and abortion was a standalone issue that didn\u2019t have any growth features.\u00a0 It just was what it was.<\/p>\n

I went hoarse trying to tell them that this wasn\u2019t the end of anything, that it was like everything else in liberalism is: The beginning.\u00a0 But the problem I was up against was that even these educated — very wealthy, in some cases; in other cases well-to-do — people, they didn\u2019t have a concept of liberalism.\u00a0 To them, everything was Republican versus Democrat.\u00a0 To them, everything was the Religious Right versus everybody else.\u00a0 To them, everything was fiscal conservatism, social liberalism, what have you.\u00a0 And they were immune.<\/p>\n

I could not find a way to get through to them and tell them that this was not just about babies and women\u2019s rights to choose and all this.\u00a0 It was about what kind of country we were eventually gonna have.\u00a0 If these people who revel, who celebrate the right to kill little children… If those people continue to gain power and don\u2019t pay a price for that….\u00a0 But I got nowhere.\u00a0 I frustratingly got nowhere, because what overpowered my attempt to persuade them was the fact that they were embarrassed or humiliated to be in a party that made abortion such a big deal.<\/p>\n

They were fine with reading the Wall Street Journal and being fiscal conservatives and all that, but they wanted no part of anything to do with social conservative issues.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t want to hear about any culture war.\u00a0 To them… See, they were well enough off that they could avoid it if they wanted to, but it was not just that.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t even thinking.\u00a0 To them, it was all party politics.\u00a0 There was no ideology whatsoever.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t understand that Democrats were liberals, were socialists, were communists, budding communists.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t understand that.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t care to understand that.<\/p>\n

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\\Which is why I have been so hell-bent in my belief that the real education that needs to take place in this country is helping people to understand who liberals are and then what that means.\u00a0 Because if we had done that, if we had succeeded, if we hadn\u2019t run away on the abortion issue, if we hadn\u2019t run away from the culture war, if we hadn\u2019t run away from that, then… If we had properly educated people — everybody, not just kids. If we had educated a significant number of people that it is Marxism, that liberalism is what led to Nazism, that liberalism is what led to the Soviet Union, that liberalism is what led to Cuba!<\/p>\n

If we had done a good job of educating people that that\u2019s what liberalism means, then Cortez and her proposal yesterday would you have been laughed out of the planet and it would have been rejected by everybody as absolute lunacy.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not there because we have not done it. And now with the Never Trumpers doing everything they can to destroy Donald Trump, they are joining with these people on the left. Many of them have said they would have voted or did vote for Hillary Clinton, which is like voting for Karl Marx, which is like voting for the socialist government of the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Not even that phased them, such was there hatred and dislike on a personal level for Donald Trump — and there again, it was the same thing.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t want any part of Donald Trump like the people I\u2019m telling you didn\u2019t want any part of abortion.\u00a0 It made them nervous to think they were in the same party with that ogre, with that that brute, with that insult to civility and so forth.\u00a0 So it was impossible to make much headway.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019re doing much better in terms of, like, Trump\u2019s approval number is at 50% today in Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s straight off the State of the Union speech, and the loyalists that Trump has are indeed loyalists. There is no way that anybody is going to be able to talk them out of their support for Trump.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the reasons why the Democrats are going even crazier and crazier — and the media is too — is that they have launched everything they\u2019ve got at Trump. They have put to play every weapon in their arsenal, and it\u2019s been like spitting spitballs at a battleship.<\/p>\n

It just hasn\u2019t even made a dent.\u00a0 That\u2019s made \u2019em even more frustrated than they ever thought they would be. So now part of this Green New Deal and related socialist proposals is in reaction to Trump.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you how crazy they were driven on Tuesday night at State of the Union speech which I (sigh) have got to get to too.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s a fascinating story about how massive Trump\u2019s support is among women in this country.\u00a0 But you wouldn\u2019t believe that, would you?<\/p>\n

I say that, and you probably think, “Rush, women hate Trump. I — I — I\u2019ve seen it in the media. I\u2019ve seen it on TV.”\u00a0 They don\u2019t hate Donald Trump.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about just female Trump supporters.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about surveys of women at large, the overall American population.\u00a0 So I failed in trying to tell people that if we didn\u2019t get a handle on educating people, where we were headed.\u00a0 If we can, as a society, lose so rapidly the respect and the reverence and the awe for the sanctity of life, then nothing is safe.<\/p>\n

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But they thought I was the kook, and now abortion after birth gets a standing ovation in New York — and all I\u2019m telling you is the same thing has been happening on this climate change issue.\u00a0 Climate change from the left is about much more than pollution.\u00a0 It\u2019s about much more than saving the planet.\u00a0 It\u2019s about much more than getting rid of jets.\u00a0 It\u2019s about communism.\u00a0 It\u2019s about socialism.\u00a0 It is about tyranny and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s right there in front of us now. And people are laughing at it instead of taking it seriously as something that needs to be seriously, stridently opposed. So that\u2019s the solution. The solution to this is to wake people up about who liberals really are, what they really are, what they intend to do. And we don\u2019t have to theorize anymore and we don\u2019t have to predict because they\u2019re doing it every day. They\u2019re letting it be known who they are and what they want to do.<\/p>\n

The challenge is to get people not to laugh at it first, to laugh at it second or third, but to take it seriously and work very hard at convincing as many people as possible that what they are proposing — to say it\u2019s impossible is the wrong way to go about it \u2019cause that\u2019s not stopping them. What has to be done is the American people have to be told what their lives are going to if these people even get half of this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Sam in San Diego as we head back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hi, Sam. How are you?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019m doing well, Rush. Thank you. So I had a thought here. You know, reading about the Green New Deal and Ocasio-Cortez, and I was thinking the number one way to fight socialism is we have to raise the cost of borrowing. And part of what\u2019s causing the problem in my opinion — and I\u2019d love your reaction to it — is that cheap money and easy credit is driving a lot of these kind of no consequence promises where it\u2019s gonna get paid for sometime in the future, but it doesn\u2019t really take into account the cost of borrowing. And I think while that might cause a shock to the system, it could be good in kind of reminding people that everything has a cost. So I\u2019m interested in your thoughts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you are, of course, correct, sensible, and very reasonable and in suggesting that there\u2019s a consequence for action, a consequence for borrowing too much money, a consequence for borrowing money that you can\u2019t pay back. But unfortunately your reasonableness and your sensibilities here are irrelevant. To hear them talk, they\u2019re not even talking about borrowing money, Sam.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re talking about, A, taxing it from all the rich people. This woman even thinks that Goldman Sachs is Trump\u2019s number one campaign donor. They donated to Hillary. And then the next thing they\u2019re talking about is printing money, if there isn\u2019t enough. They\u2019re not gonna borrow anything. They\u2019re just gonna print it. Whatever they need, they\u2019re gonna have it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned this at the top of the program.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the backup for it.\u00a0 Oregon senator… I mistakenly called him a congressman, representative.\u00a0 Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat, Oregon, on Wednesday, defended socialism against President Trump<\/a>.\u00a0 You know, in the Trump State of the Union he pledged the United States will never, ever be a socialist nation.\u00a0 Jeff Merkley… He said the same thing when he came out supporting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s new green deal, Green New Deal, green-with-envy deal, whatever. He said (summarized), “Socialism is fine.\u00a0 Socialism is society coming together to increase the standard of living of our seniors.”<\/p>\n