{"id":351542,"date":"2020-06-05T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=351542"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:06:02","slug":"were-witnessing-the-massive-failure-of-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/05\/were-witnessing-the-massive-failure-of-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Witnessing the Massive Failure of Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There also, ladies and gentlemen, you know, one of the themes that I have been on for a long time, but I\u2019ve been intensely trying to drive home a point for the last two weeks, three weeks, and that is the utter failure of the Democrat Party to come through for its constituents. You\u2019ve heard me say this I don\u2019t know how many times. Maybe you\u2019re a little tired of hearing me say it. The Democrat Party has been promising utopia. And yet where is all this police brutality happening? In Democrat blue states.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-350942\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060220-FLOYD-RIOTS-Atl-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060220-FLOYD-RIOTS-Atl-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060220-FLOYD-RIOTS-Atl-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060220-FLOYD-RIOTS-Atl-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It\u2019s so bad that they\u2019re now seriously gonna defund police departments in Minneapolis, in New York, and in California. Liberalism is on record here as a total failure, folks. Socialism on record, on display, is a total failure. The Democrat Party, which is the home of all of that, on display as a public massive failure. Everything they have been promising their constituents are things for 50 years their constituents still have grievances about, their constituents are still complaining.<\/p>\n<p>Look at civil rights. You have the Civil Rights Act 1964, 1965, LBJ and the Democrats going nuts, massively passing all this legislation to end inequality, to end discrimination, and yet what? It\u2019s worse now than ever. It is worse than ever. The Democrat Party and liberalism and their prescriptions are worse than ever. It is an abject, total failure.<\/p>\n<p>And so what have they had to do? Well, now they give back. They can\u2019t blame themselves, obviously, which we all should. They are ultimately responsible. The Democrat Party (liberalism, leftism, communism, socialism, whatever) is an abject, total failure for the people who\u2019ve been promised all of these wonderful benefits and utopian-type lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>So now what do they do to cover up their failure, which is a failure of over 50 years? Why, we gotta go back 400 years and we gotta blame America. We gotta blame America\u2019s founding. America\u2019s founding is itself unjust and immoral, and that\u2019s where the real problem lies. America is irredeemable! America\u2019s original sins, whatever they are &#8212; slavery, leaving other people out &#8212; can\u2019t be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, because the Democrat Party has been trying to fix \u2019em for 50 years and they failed, so obviously it can\u2019t be fixed, and this is where we are. This is how they\u2019re covering their own butts with their own people, their own voters. They can\u2019t admit that what they believe in is a failure. They can\u2019t admit that their ideas don\u2019t work and haven\u2019t worked.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s the old fallback: Blame America and blame Republicans. Well, the reason I bring all this up is because I missed something yesterday that people called my attention to. It\u2019s a Wall Street Journal column by Daniel Henninger, and the headline is: &#8220;Liberalism Has Failed, 50 years&#8230;&#8221; No, no. No. No, wait. That\u2019s the headline I wrote. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/americas-new-nihilism-11591225713\">&#8220;America\u2019s New Nihilism&#8221;<\/a> is the headline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/americas-new-nihilism-11591225713\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351561\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-WSJ-Opinion-TEARAWAY-060520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-WSJ-Opinion-TEARAWAY-060520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-WSJ-Opinion-TEARAWAY-060520-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-WSJ-Opinion-TEARAWAY-060520-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>You know what nihilism is, right? These intellectuals use these terms. Nihilism &#8212; nihilism, however you pronounce it &#8212; is a rejection of all religious and moral principles, and that\u2019s what the left believes in. The left doesn\u2019t believe in religion. They don\u2019t believe in God, and they don\u2019t want you believing in religion or God, and they certainly don\u2019t believe in morality.<\/p>\n<p>Morality, to them, is however each individual defines it. You don\u2019t have the right to define morality! You&#8230; Nobody has the right to tell them what\u2019s right and wrong. They get to do that. Well, that\u2019s nihilism or nihilism, and this is also part of the way they\u2019re covering up for their massive failure. Anyway, Henninger writes about this massive failure, and he traces it back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can go further than this, but he traces it back to 1968 and the protests in Chicago by the anti-war left against the Democrat Party, the convention, the DNC and all that. But it is really good. It\u2019s really good, and I\u2019m sorry I missed it, because I would have touted it yesterday, had I seen it. His column runs on Thursday. You may remember me talking when it came out.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the Wall Street Journal headline or op-ed&#8230;? Actually, it was an editorial, meaning it wasn\u2019t signed, and it was about how we\u2019ve lost our guardrails? Henninger wrote that. Henninger wrote it. It\u2019s rare for an unsigned editorial to have a life span like that one has. The guardrails are, you know, the things that keep us in the lanes: Morality and decency and right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>His piece was about the guardrails are plummeting, the guardrails are failing &#8212; the guardrails are falling, they\u2019re disappearing &#8212; all because of liberalism and the Democrat Party. But, folks, it is so true, and it makes what\u2019s happening now all the more hurtful and incredible because they have convinced all these young Millennial kids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351524\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-3-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A lot of wealthy, white Millennials have joined Antifa. So they\u2019ve convinced all these people of things that are not true, and they\u2019ve convinced them to be angry at people they have no reason to be angry at &#8212; such as me, you and me. But it\u2019s a mean trick to keep people &#8212; it\u2019s a pretty good trick to keep people &#8212; fired up and wired up over something that has never worked.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is that the Democrat Party, as it is constituted and as it is functioning today, all of this that\u2019s happening that\u2019s in relationship to the George Floyd murder, it\u2019s all a failure. The fact that George Floyd was murdered is a testament to the failure of liberal Democrat politics. Where did it happen?<\/p>\n<p>This kind of racism and bigotry and ugly behavior by the cops, the Democrats are supposed to have fixed that, right? I mean, that\u2019s what the Democrat Party promises. There isn\u2019t gonna be any of that stuff anymore. There isn\u2019t gonna be any meanness. There isn\u2019t gonna be any extremism where Democrats run the show, where Democrats rule the roost because that\u2019s where there\u2019s gonna be fairness, and equality, and sameness and all that.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the worst examples of Americans\u2019 depravity, the worst examples of America\u2019s economic failing, the worst examples of America\u2019s lack of morality are to be found right smack-dab in the middle of Democrat Party institutions, platforms, and existence.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, back to the Daniel Henninger piece &#8212; and, folks, this is a hugely important thing. You know, this program is about the way people vote. This program is about changing minds and hearts. This program is about being in the arena of ideas and having a chance to reach people who both agree and disagree, but primarily among those who disagree, to reach them in a way to cause them to question what they think.<\/p>\n<p>Not by lying to them. Not by tricking them. Not by using them or humiliating them. Simply giving them a truth that they have not been exposed to, or series of them. The failure of liberalism is what\u2019s on parade here! The failure of the Democrat Party &#8212; the failure of the Civil Rights acts and the civil rights coalition, the failure of liberalism and socialism and communism &#8212; is on display with every riot, every protest march, every burned cop car, every torn-down building, every building set afire.<\/p>\n<p>Every bit of evidence you see is a testament to the failure of liberalism, not to its success. It isn\u2019t working. Its people are not happy. Its voters are not satisfied. They are not content. They\u2019re not even close to content, much less happy. They are perennially enraged. They are constantly angry. And it makes perfect sense because every promise that\u2019s been made has been broken. Every promise that\u2019s been made has not been kept. And the promises are big.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-344979\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041720-Liberalism-VS-Americanism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041720-Liberalism-VS-Americanism.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041720-Liberalism-VS-Americanism-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041720-Liberalism-VS-Americanism-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I mean, you can\u2019t promise much more than utopia. They have promised to eliminate cops killing black people. They have promised to eliminate racial discrimination against African-Americans and minorities. They have promised to eliminate people laughing at you and making fun of you. They have promised to get even with people who are mean-spirited and angry. They\u2019ve promised to get even with all these people who have more money than you. They have promised they\u2019re gonna get even with all these corporations, these multinationals that don\u2019t hire you, and they overcharge you, and they cause you to lose your health care. They\u2019re gonna get even with all of it.<\/p>\n<p>And they don\u2019t get even with anybody. And they don\u2019t fix anything. And the people that vote for \u2019em know it. There\u2019s a witness. They got witnesses. Fifty years of abject, total failure. The mystery is why they keep voting for \u2019em. We know the answer. Because they have convinced them that we are whatever, the worst examples of whatever can be. The popular comparison today is Nazis. We\u2019re the modern incarnation of Nazis and Trump in Charlottesville, he said there are good people everywhere, including in the neo-Nazis, good things in the Klan. The Ku Klux Klan is a Democrat Party operation, folks. It always has been.<\/p>\n<p>The Ku Klux Klan was the military wing of the Democrat Party back during the worst of the segregation days, and it was Democrat senators who led the segregation movement. And the Klan was their violence organization. Robert &#8220;Sheets&#8221; Byrd, a Grand Kleagle or Grand Cloogle or Grand Wizard, or whatever, now he\u2019s a U.S. senator. Well, he\u2019s not; he\u2019s dead. But he was a United States senator from West Virginia, Robert &#8220;Sheets&#8221; Byrd. That somehow never did attach itself to the Democrats. He could go on TV and use the N-word. He did it on Meet the Press. He used the N-word. Well, everybody understood that he was reformed.<\/p>\n<p>So, these protests, I don\u2019t care, peaceful or otherwise, they are demonstrations against failed Democrat blue state governors. They are demonstrations against failed blue state mayors and city managers. We\u2019re being told that all these protests are aimed at us, us Republicans and us conservatives, but we didn\u2019t do anything that\u2019s made them mad. That stuff\u2019s all happening in blue states. Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, liberal blue states, liberal blue cities running the police department. This is not supposed to be possible with Democrats running things. But, look, it is. And it hasn\u2019t changed in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>All of these protests from sea to shining sea, coast to coast, are in response to deplorable and failed Democrat, liberal leadership. And you need to take note of this. It should result in these people getting fewer and fewer and many fewer people voting for them because they\u2019re failures. Donald Trump is not responsible for whatever grievances these people are marching against. Donald Trump wasn\u2019t there when George Floyd died. Donald Trump wasn\u2019t anywhere near when that went down.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Henninger\u2019s piece. &#8220;This is not 1968. It\u2019s worse. The late 1960s were the heyday of modern American liberalism, which was then an ideology of hope. A bipartisan Congress passed landmark civil-rights legislation in 1964 and 1965. The precipitating event of the urban riots in 1968 was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. New York, Trenton, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Washington were on fire. Arguably back then, despite passage of President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society programs, not enough time had passed for liberal policies,&#8221; to actually take hold. So, he\u2019s being charitable here. So, \u201964, \u201965, LBJ passes the civil rights legislation. The Great Society is what it was called. Massive welfare state creation. And by 1968, it still hadn\u2019t had time to plant roots and sprout trees and whatever, so it was still questionable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264771\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Liberals-American-Greatness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Liberals-American-Greatness.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Liberals-American-Greatness-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Okay. &#8220;Last week, George Floyd died after rough treatment from arresting Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, who was arrested and charged with murder. Since then, there have been daily protests accompanied by riot and pillage in multiple U.S cities. A primary claim made repeatedly this week is that the U.S., which means the American people, are guilty of perpetual &#8216;systemic racism.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No. No. Just because things are all askew and broken in blue states does not mean America has a systemic racism problem. What it means is that liberalism and the Democrat Party have failed. But it doesn\u2019t mean America is bad. It doesn\u2019t mean that America has any explaining. America didn\u2019t do anything. There is no systemic racism that explains what happened to George Floyd. What happened to George Floyd took place because liberal Democrat policies and liberal Democrat power do not solve the problems they promise to solve.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Philadelphia. This is Robert. I\u2019m glad you called, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, you need to get it together, man, because this country needs you, you know what I\u2019m saying? I mean, you gotta hang in there, you know what I mean? We need you. We need you right now. So just hang in there. You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir. Yep. Yep. Yep. I hear you. I hear you. I need to double down and work even harder. I got it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s it. I don\u2019t believe that &#8212; this is my own personal opinion. I think this moved on to another section. It isn\u2019t about the shutdown. It isn\u2019t about the protests. It isn\u2019t about the looting and the violence, which I\u2019ve seen plenty living here in Philadelphia. I\u2019m gonna walk outside my house and hear the ATMs blow up &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What\u2019s it about, then?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s about the Democrats sabotaging this country. They lost on the Russian thing &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s exactly &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; the Kavanaugh thing. Yeah. They lost on other things, and what do they got left? Sabotage. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, obviously they are sabotaging &#8212; although sabotage, in some people\u2019s minds, carries with it secrecy, that sabotage occurs when people aren\u2019t aware of it. This is happening right in front of our faces. That\u2019s my point today. The Democrat Party is an abject failure. American liberalism is an abject failure, and they are attempting to sabotage the country despite that. The failure is so embarrassing that the people that run this party and this movement have created an alternative universe of explanations like systemic racism. That\u2019s just one example.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, I want to continue with this. To me, this is a huge, huge thing. It is such a teachable moment. It\u2019s a golden opportunity. I know that many of you have kids that are Millennials, and they\u2019re buying into all of this because they\u2019ve been made to feel guilty over being white, and so they suffer &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re &#8220;white supremacists,&#8221; and they\u2019re being made to feel guilty that all the problems in this country stem from the fact that white people founded it and created it, and that they\u2019re now then &#8212; your kids &#8212; open to the concept of ripping the country apart and starting over. I\u2019m sure it frustrates you, but some of you are falling for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351526\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060520-FLOYD-PROTEST-DC-5-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Some of you, your parents, your kids are coming home from school and they\u2019re telling you things. &#8220;Yeah, yeah.&#8221; You\u2019re proud of your kids. You want your kids to be, oh, properly educated and so forth. This is dangerous stuff. These kids &#8212; and they\u2019re kids. They\u2019re learning the exact wrong things from this. They\u2019re learning the exact opposite. What they ought to be learning is this stuff they\u2019re supporting cannot possibly ever work.<\/p>\n<p>It never has, and the Democrat Party &#8212; which personifies these beliefs &#8212; has failed since 1968. Actually, before that, but \u201968 is a good starting point because it\u2019s the last time we had massive riots and protests like this, which were also aimed at Democrats in 1968, just as these are. The difference here is in 1968, everybody knew. They\u2019re in Chicago; they\u2019re protesting the Democrat Party convention.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here and now, the media is getting away with convincing a bunch of people that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re thinking about or talking about that all this is aimed at Donald Trump, that all of this is Donald Trump\u2019s fault, all of this is the Republican Party\u2019s fault. There are no Republican fingerprints on this. Have you ever wondered what the politics of that cop in Minneapolis are?<\/p>\n<p>Why haven\u2019t you wondered?<\/p>\n<p>See? It\u2019s exactly my point. I\u2019ll guarantee-damn-tee you, if this guy were MAGA, if this guy were a Trump donor, it\u2019s all you would have heard about. Guess he\u2019s not. I guess these cops are not Donald Trump supporters or we would have heard about that. I\u2019m just illustrating a point here. Donald Trump, nor you or I, have anything to do with this. &#8220;But, Rush! But, Rush! There\u2019s systemic racism!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, there is Democrat Party failure. I ask African-Americans every time I talk to \u2019em, &#8220;Why do you keep voting Democrat? Everything they promised you, you\u2019re still complaining about. Everything they\u2019ve told you they\u2019re gonna fix, you still are whining and moaning about how unfair it is, or you\u2019re discriminated against, or the cops mistreat you, or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why haven\u2019t they fixed it? You have elected them to fix it! You have donated money to them to fix it. They have promised you they\u2019re gonna fix it. They have promised you they\u2019re gonna get even with the people that are mistreating you. Why doesn\u2019t it happen? They are a visible, walking, never-ending example of evidence of failure &#8212; and so they come up with these things.<\/p>\n<p>(impression) &#8220;Well, you know, the real problem is systemic racism dating back 400 years.&#8221; What an absolute crock! So they create this 1619 Project to say that America is flawed and irredeemable. Irredeemable means, &#8220;America cannot be fixed. The only solution is to rip America apart and start over &#8212; and this time, no white people get to play.&#8221; That, my friends, is the objective.<\/p>\n<p>So they come up with things like systemic racism to explain their failures. &#8220;Well, the reason why you\u2019re not happy &#8212; the reason why we haven\u2019t been able to live up to our promises &#8212; is systemic racism.&#8221; No, no, no, no! You have promised to get rid of racism. You have promised to punish racists. You have promised to make life hell for people who mistreat African-Americans, and yet, the complaints keep rolling in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351382\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-FLOYD-Demonstration-NYC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-FLOYD-Demonstration-NYC.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-FLOYD-Demonstration-NYC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-FLOYD-Demonstration-NYC-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It\u2019s a serious question: Why do you keep voting for them? &#8220;Well, Republicans are worse. They\u2019re actual racists!&#8221; I know that\u2019s how you think. I know that\u2019s what they\u2019ve told you, but you ever really stop to think? How do you explain record African-American employment in the first three years the Trump administration? See, that\u2019s the kind of thing, to me, that could be &#8230; unifying.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I say the word? So the failure of the liberal model is so embarrassing that the current leaders of the Democrat Party and the American left have created an entire alternative universe of explanations. Blaming it on American settlers in the early seventeenth century, some flawed definition of the lack of justice, systemic racism that simply cannot be wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Henninger writes, &#8220;This is worse than 1968,&#8221; for this reason, &#8220;because the political system is now engaged in a systemic act of forgetting. Let\u2019s forget that this policy failure has happened or why. Let\u2019s forget, for instance, that the people living in New York\u2019s public housing are overrun with rats, unlit hallways and no heat in the winter&#8221; just like it was in 1968. But let\u2019s forget that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s forget that many blacks have indeed been left behind &#8212; by a well-documented migration since 1990 of black Americans out of northern cities and Los Angeles into the South, where they have gone in search of economic opportunity.&#8221; But let\u2019s just forget that a lot of African-Americans have already fled the Democrat Party where it lives.<\/p>\n<p>If they haven\u2019t fled them in the ballot box, they still have fled being governed by them when they can. &#8220;Let\u2019s forget, despite a massive [annual] outlay on Medicaid &#8230; that black Americans still have a higher incidence of chronic disease.&#8221; We\u2019ve spent $593 billion alone in 2018 on Medicaid, which is Medicare for the poor, and &#8220;black Americans still have a higher incidence of chronic disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s forget that. Yeah! We can\u2019t&#8230; Can\u2019t mention that! No, gotta forget that.<\/p>\n<p>See all the things you have to forget, all of the failures that you have to just ignore and instead, blame the Republicans. Blame Trump &#8212; and before Trump, blame George W. Bush, and then blame George H. W. Bush, and then blame Fox News, and then blame Rush Limbaugh, and then blame talk radio. &#8220;This new progressive nihilism says the answer to inner-city crime is decriminalization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate &#8220;defining deviancy down.&#8221; You know that phrase. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat senator from New York, invented the phrase &#8220;defining deviancy down&#8221; to acknowledge how America just throws up its hands in defeat. &#8220;Okay, we can\u2019t stop that crime, so we\u2019ll stop calling it crime. We can\u2019t stop that kind of criminal behavior, so we\u2019ll just say it isn\u2019t criminal behavior anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think &#8220;defunding the police&#8221; is about?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to inner city crime is: Why, let\u2019s get rid of the cops!<\/p>\n<p>If we get rid of the cops there won\u2019t be any arrests and therefore there won\u2019t be any crime. And so we\u2019ll get rid of crime and we\u2019ll have our utopia, and we\u2019ll get rid of all these people that our citizens hate, we\u2019re gonna get rid of the cops. And this is actually happening. It\u2019s going to happen in California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York.<\/p>\n<p>These idiots are actually serious about this. Yeah, we\u2019ll just decriminalize all this stuff the cops chase people for and therefore there won\u2019t be any more crime. This is how liberals think. But it is nothing more than an acknowledgment of the failure of liberalism and the failure of the Democrat Party to deliver on its panacea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new nihilism minimizes this week\u2019s ideologically driven assaults on private property because it is &#8216;replaceable.'&#8221; Have you heard that? It doesn\u2019t matter, they may be destroying that building but we can rebuild that. They may have torn down that restaurant, but that\u2019s not a big deal, we can rebuild the restaurant, we can replace it. Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351249\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-NY-53020-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-NY-53020-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-NY-53020-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-060420-NY-53020-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;it is well-established that many of 1968\u2019s burned-down neighborhoods,&#8221; have not come back, have not been replaced. And people living in New York public housing, rats, unlit hallways, no heat in the winter. &#8220;The new nihilism says no matter how many reform police commissioners are appointed or black mayors elected, &#8216;nothing has changed.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can that be? No matter how many Martin Luther King Boulevards you name, no matter how many African-American police chief or commissioners or mayors you elect, nothing changes. How can that be? And, by the way, is that not a definition of hopeless or hopelessness? For crying out loud, for all of these years African Americans have been told they\u2019ve been frozen out of the power structure, they\u2019ve been denied access to power. Well, not for the longest time. African-Americans are now mayors, they are governors, they are police chiefs, they are police commissioners. And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>The same crimes, the same degree of crime, the same complaints, the same stuff continues to happen, despite every liberal solution and promise being implemented in these blue states by these blue state leaders. How in the world this is not seen for exactly what it is is a testament to the propagandized power of the Drive-By Media. Because, my friends, the Democrat Party is broadcasting, is chronicling, is demonstrating its abject failure to deliver, the failure of its ideas, the failure of its promises every day, and their voters are a testament to it by how angry they are and ripping the country apart.<\/p>\n<p>And I would be mad too if I\u2019d given these people 50 years of my money and 50 years of my vote in exchange for a promise of access to power, an end to racism, no more cops harassing me. I\u2019d be livid too. 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