{"id":388107,"date":"2021-03-22T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=388107"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:44:37","slug":"democrats-want-to-fundamentally-transform-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/22\/democrats-want-to-fundamentally-transform-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Faith: Dems Want to Transform America, But It Will Backfire on Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: I am Jason Lewis, the talk show host formerly known as Congressman Lewis from the great state of Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes and Riots, where the rest of us are locked down. That continues, by the way, with Governor Tim Walz, who continues to be every bit as left-wing as Mark Dayton who proved that we haven\u2019t won the war on drugs yet.<\/p>\n

You should have seen this governor. We\u2019ve had a couple doozy in Minnesota. I can\u2019t figure out why everybody\u2019s leaving Minnesota, New York, California, and moving to Florida, Texas, Arizona. It\u2019s kind of amazing. But if you look at the U-Haul figures, real estate figures, there is an exodus going on, and that is the beauty of what Justice Brandeis used to call federalism.<\/p>\n

\"\"The laboratories of democracy. And that is why the left wants to federalize elections in H.R. 1. They want a national economy. They want a national government, not a federal government, because they cannot allow people voting with their feet. By the way, this is a longtime goal of the liberal left.<\/p>\n

If you live in a major urban area in America — I don\u2019t care where you lived in Charlotte, Denver, or Minneapolis\/St. Paul — there\u2019s a regional government there (in our metro area it\u2019s called the metropolitan council) that wants to eradicate local suburbs, municipalities, local autonomy. They want one big, regional government so you can\u2019t flee.<\/p>\n

Now Nancy Pelosi with H.R. 1 wants to make certain we federalize elections so that you can\u2019t root out fraud, that you can\u2019t have voter ID. In Virginia they just announced they\u2019re gonna allow felons to vote. “Why, I mean, come on. Let\u2019s be honest, people. Why, if you don\u2019t allow people in prison to vote, that\u2019s a disparate impact on people in prison. We can\u2019t have that!”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just… By the way, don\u2019t think it\u2019s just people that have paid their due to society. It goes way beyond that. It\u2019s 1-800-282-2882 as hour 2 underway. I want to get to the border issue. Rush has a got a great comment on that. I want to talk a little bit more about small business. Covid cases continue to decline. They have dropped like a rock since the first of the year, prior to any vaccination — and this is key.<\/p>\n

The last word on this has not been written, but if we know anything, we know the emperor has no clothes when it comes to Dr. Fauci, when it comes to the experts, when it comes to the epidemiologists who have been wrong since day one on this. You could not have thought up — unless this was deliberate — a more deleterious policy on covid or any particular virus.<\/p>\n

If you go back to 1968, when there was a bad outbreak; you go back to H1N1, I think it was 2009; Eisenhower had a horrible winter in \u201957-\u201958; the Spanish flu, we have never, ever quarantined the healthy in this country. But this time we quarantine the healthy, the young, the school-age children, the college-age kids who had little chance of getting the virus, let alone getting seriously sick.<\/p>\n

But what did we do to the elderly, the infirm? We deliberately infected them. We did it back-asswards. We didn\u2019t quarantine the people in nursing homes or congregated living facilities. We infected them, thanks to Andrew Cuomo, who was busy infecting every staffer he could find, apparently. And we locked down the most vulnerable. Let me tell you something, friends.<\/p>\n

The pain — psychology, physical — that we have caused young people in this country is something that should never be forgotten, obviously never repeated. But the people who are culpable of that — primarily the blue state governors getting bailed out in this latest covid bill, $350 billion worth, so they can pay their teacher unions not to teach.<\/p>\n

They should never be forgiven. God might forgive them. I will not. The mental anguish, the suicides, the drug abuse, the self-harm, you name it. What we\u2019ve done to socially isolate the most vulnerable in our society, from the young to the elderly, is unconscionable — and they did it for political expediency.<\/p>\n

\"\"Covid lockdowns allowed the left to punish small businessmen and women they didn\u2019t like. Attorney General Keith Ellison here in Minnesota was going after rodeos while BLM was burning down 1500 buildings in the metro area. It allowed them to rig an election, albeit legally, by signing false consent decrees that should have been challenged by statehouse members and the courts, usurping the power of state legislatures to write election law.<\/p>\n

“Election Day is Tuesday? Don\u2019t worry! Get your ballot in by a week from Tuesday. It\u2019s good. Mail-in ballot? No problem. Proof of identity? We don\u2019t do that anymore.” You couldn\u2019t have crafted a more obvious policy for Democrats to consolidate and concentrate power. That\u2019s what the covid has wrought. That\u2019s what the lockdowns were designed to do, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want to lift them.<\/p>\n

But that would be the best thing for small business. About 8 or 9% of this $1.9 trillion covid stimulus bill was for covid relief. The rest of it was bailing out the government unions: AFSCME, American Federation of Government Employees, National Education Association. That\u2019s who this is about, and now Biden says he\u2019s gotta raise taxes on people making more than $200,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s a lot of small businessmen and -women who pay their taxes, business taxes on a pass-through basis. But don\u2019t worry, gang. The new Homeland Security secretary, Mayorkas, says the border is closed. Maybe we haven\u2019t won the war on drugs. The border is closed? (Snort!) What is this guy Thinking? This is gaslighting on an epic scale.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ve been doing for quite some time: Gaslighting the American people on covid, on the lockdowns, on cancel culture, and now the border is closed? You gonna believe me or your own lying eyes, said the Homeland Security director, or secretary. We got a crisis on the border. A hundred thousand came through in February, the largest in a number of years.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll tell you why we\u2019ve got it, and it\u2019s pretty simple. This is one thing Obama was right on: Elections have consequences. And here\u2019s what Joe Biden and company have done since they took office. They\u2019ve undone the Migrant Protection Protocol. That\u2019s the MPP or Remain in Mexico” policy that ended catch-and-release.<\/p>\n

They undid the Muslim travel ban. They undid the emergency wall funding. They undid the sanctuary city crackdown. They undid the census count so they can reapportion, according to illegal immigrants who now have a vote, they\u2019re undoing DACA with Nancy Pelosi\u2019s bill. And, surprise, surprise, people are listening.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then they\u2019re telling people, “Come here! You\u2019ll get tuition. You\u2019ll get free health care.” This is shocking. The MPP… The “Remain in Mexico” policy was really crucial that President Trump put in place. It was designed to make certain that the catch and release wouldn\u2019t overwhelm system. We had so many people coming that you can\u2019t process them.<\/p>\n

So they would release them to sponsors. But you want to add insult to injury, friends? The “sponsors” themselves are illegal. So we get a flood at the border. The Department of Homeland Security says, “We don\u2019t have the detention facilities to house them,” so they have to release them to their sponsors, who are also illegal! This is what the Democrats want.<\/p>\n

I want to be clear about this. This is not a byproduct of a misguided policy. This isn\u2019t an accident. This is what they want, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve got kids either in detention centers, flooding the border, or released to illegal sponsors. Rush talked about this not too long ago, and here\u2019s what he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a theory. I have a theory. You know, the Democrats\u2019 concern for the children in the detention centers. I think that the supposed concern and compassion for these children actually is more like they are the equivalent of the homeless. The Democrats have a problem now with homelessness, but it\u2019s only in Democrat cities. They can\u2019t talk about it, as previously discussed. Democrat candidates can\u2019t talk about the record homelessness in LA. LA is run by Democrats. California is run by Democrats. The LA council is worried, mad, the Democrat candidates aren\u2019t talking about it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Why would they ever? They\u2019re not gonna sit there and talk about something that\u2019s an exclusive Democrat problem. Besides that, Democrats are gonna vote en masse in California for Democrats. They don\u2019t have to do a damn thing for California to get Democrat votes. They don\u2019t have to appropriate an additional dollar for anything. They don\u2019t have to ever mention California. They don\u2019t have to do diddly-squat to get California\u2019s votes. So why should they?<\/p>\n

Now, when the Republicans are in the White House, homelessness is always a cornerstone issue. It\u2019s always a fundamental attack point for the Democrats. But they can\u2019t because it\u2019s a Democrat city problem. Ergo, here come the kids in the detention centers. Voila! The Democrats have their homeless issue. They\u2019re calling it something else, but it\u2019s the same opportunity to blast the Republicans for no heart, no compassion, mean-spirited extremism. Except it\u2019s backfiring on them because the Republicans — i.e., Trump — have put forth legislation to fix the problem. And the Democrats won\u2019t go along with it. They want the issue.<\/p>\n

JASON: You know, that just nails it, doesn\u2019t it? I mean, that\u2019s exactly what the Democrat left has done.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

JASON: Understand the Democratic socialism we\u2019re up against is exactly that: You eradicate inequality by making certain everyone is equally miserable. You bail out zombie companies. They drain capital. You run up debt so that even if you have the right policies, you can\u2019t grow because people are cleaning up their messy balance sheets. Socialism never, ever works.<\/p>\n

Not only is it contrary to economics, it\u2019s contrary to human nature. But the point is, there\u2019s only one way to allocate resources, labor, and capital in the most efficient way, and it has zero to do with government. Rush understood that, and that\u2019s why he said people do not want socialism. You know, it\u2019s frustrating how many times we have to reinvent the wheel, but we do, and you would have thought we would have known it by now.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Rush had to say about folks in socialism and why they don\u2019t want it.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: All of this eventually — I don\u2019t know when, and I don\u2019t know how — but all of this is going to backfire. And you know why? Because the Democrats are Wile E. Coyote. They always blow themselves up. They always step in it. I can\u2019t predict when it\u2019s gonna happen here. But they always do. The media will always cover it up for them as well. But they\u2019re gonna blow this because they blow everything. They blew the Wellstone memorial. They\u2019ve had any number of chances to totally take over and co-opt this country.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m, frankly, surprised that there is still, given everything that\u2019s happened, that there is still a viable opposition which is made up of people like you, Tim. You\u2019re not at your wits\u2019 end yet. You\u2019re not without your options, and you certainly have not lost all of your power. They\u2019re scared to death, Tim, of what you could still do. They\u2019re scared to death of Trump. They\u2019re scared to death he\u2019s gonna run again. They\u2019re scared to death. They don\u2019t think that they have vanquished Trump. They hope they\u2019re able to down the road, but they don\u2019t believe they have now.<\/p>\n

But people that have visions of authoritarianism are quite dangerous, and they\u2019re not to be taken lightly. So don\u2019t misunderstand. But they are going to blow this. It\u2019s gonna blow up on them one way or another. It always does. And the reason it does is because of the people of this country. The people, the majority of this country is not socialist. The majority of the population doesn\u2019t want socialism or communism. And they realize it\u2019s being forced on them against their will.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m gonna tell you something, Tim. We have a more active, engaged opposition to the Democrat Party today than at any time in my lifetime. And it manifests itself in any number of ways. I have been frustrated over the years, as I have shared with you, that we don\u2019t seem to engage in any real opposition. We just complain. We go vote, we complain, we talk about this or that. Well, those days are behind us.<\/p>\n

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