{"id":388169,"date":"2021-03-22T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=388169"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:44:17","slug":"our-founding-principles-are-under-assault-by-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/22\/our-founding-principles-are-under-assault-by-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Founding Principles Are Under Assault by the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JASON: Now, imagine that just, say &#8212; oh, I don\u2019t know &#8212; in the city of Miami, for instance, there was chaos over the weekend. Just imagine that for a moment. Right? And imagine that the chaos in Miami (ahem) destroyed $500 million worth of a structure, of business. Can you imagine if 1500 buildings were damaged or torched or destroyed? Can you imagine would they turn the local AutoZone into a war zone?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-370767\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-102720-Philadelphia-Riots-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-102720-Philadelphia-Riots-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-102720-Philadelphia-Riots-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-102720-Philadelphia-Riots-5-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine in the city of Miami this weekend that, let\u2019s say, they &#8212; I don\u2019t know &#8212; overtook the 3rd Precinct and the city council and the mayor said, &#8220;Go ahead and take it.&#8221; Imagine if that set off a radical attorney general that was threatening rodeos and law-abiding businesses were violating covid lockdowns while they let the uncontrolled rioters, looters, arsonists destroy $500 million worth of business, 1500 buildings, and torch what they didn\u2019t like at ground zero.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if news crews were told they couldn\u2019t go down there and report; it was too dangerous. Now imagine it wasn\u2019t Miami because it wasn\u2019t. What I described to you was Minnesota, where I live, in May of last year. Isn\u2019t that amazing that that seems to be dead right now? Nobody\u2019s talking about BLM, Antifa, Indivisible. They\u2019re responsible for what went on destroying the Minneapolis\/St. Paul area, which we still haven\u2019t recovered from, not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the media is gaga over the spring breakers in Miami and Miami Beach. Now, Miami has problems with this every year called Urban Weekend. They have a problem, a gathering of spring breakers or anybody. It\u2019s historically been a problem. But the media is trying to prove that, &#8220;Oh, gosh, the lack of covid restrictions is just wreaking chaos in Miami.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_6058f380e673cc000171eb8b\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/6058f380e673cc000171eb8b.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&#038;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No, the governor [of Florida] called in the Guard. It took Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter four days to call in the Guard when Minneapolis was being torched, north and south, and Frogtown and University Avenue, you name it. It was total chaos in Minnesota. A public building was not just overtaken. It was handed over to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is&#8230; This is crazy stuff. Think about this. While the Democrat authorities in Minnesota last summer were neglecting their first duty to keep us safe, they were locking down law-abiding citizens. You want to know what\u2019s wrong with Democrats today? There you have it. We\u2019ve gotta get back to what makes us special and what sets us party apart. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2009\/03\/03\/more_clips_from_the_cpac_speech\/\">Here\u2019s what Rush had to say about that.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you how it happened, folks. There are many elements to it. To me, it\u2019s a great question. I think it\u2019s a question that nobody or very few people in this country ever ask themselves. You\u2019re born here, you take it for granted, you accept that America is what it is. To the extent that you have traveled, you do see the differences, the plus side differences in America. But if you haven\u2019t traveled much around the world, you assume everything is not nearly as bad around the world as it is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-356537\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APP-071620-assault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APP-071620-assault.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APP-071620-assault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APP-071620-assault-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t really have the full-fledged appreciation, and if you\u2019re not taught much history, then you really don\u2019t ask, &#8220;Gosh, how did this happen? Europe, Asia, been around thousands of years. They should be light years ahead of us in every measure. But they\u2019re not. Why?&#8221; Well, John Adams said, paraphrasing, &#8220;We\u2019ve written a document here that\u2019s for a moral and religious people.&#8221; We don\u2019t have a document that can handle people who aren\u2019t. He knew full well that people lived outside the realm of religion and morality were going to present problems. The Constitution was a problem to them. That\u2019s one element.<\/p>\n<p>The other element is that our founding documents establish our origins, created with certain inalienable rights by God, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And the great thing about this country is there have been assaults on it from within, and it\u2019s always survived, and it\u2019s always come back. It came back from the Great Depression, came back from World War I, we survived Jimmy Carter, and it\u2019s going to be a little tougher to survive this because we\u2019ve never had this large an assault on the foundation of this country ever. This makes what FDR did look like chump change.<\/p>\n<p>The people of this country have been able to use their talents, their entrepreneurial skills because of the acknowledgment, the origins of freedom, that our freedom does not come from whoever we elect, that whoever we elect is a threat to that freedom, that men do not grant freedom to other men, men can only imprison and take freedom away from other men. Women, too, but I\u2019m using it in a general sense. No other country has a Constitution like ours. No other country was founded like ours. That\u2019s why I continually focus on it, it\u2019s the founding principles that are under assault here and being overturned, and America\u2019s greatness as we\u2019ve known it is threatened. And that\u2019s why to me it\u2019s worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>JASON: Boy, amen to that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>JASON: Let me tell you something, folks. All of this starts with fear &#8212; a false fear, but fear nonetheless. Randolph Bourne, who was an anti-war activist before Wilson\u2019s war, World War I (the Great War, before we start numbering them), said, &#8220;War is the health of the state.&#8221; When the government can get people scared, they can do anything, whether it\u2019s climate change, war, or in this case covid. And then they assume the power. And it\u2019s very, very scary. And it starts with education. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2009\/03\/03\/more_clips_from_the_cpac_speech\/\">And here\u2019s what Rush had to say about that.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you how it happened, folks. There are many elements to it. To me, it\u2019s a great question. I think it\u2019s a question that nobody or very few people in this country ever ask themselves. You\u2019re born here, you take it for granted, you accept that America is what it is. To the extent that you have traveled, you do see the differences, the plus side differences in America. But if you haven\u2019t traveled much around the world, you assume everything is not nearly as bad around the world as it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2009\/03\/03\/more_clips_from_the_cpac_speech\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-383684\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022621-CPAC-2009-RUSH-CSPAN-3-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022621-CPAC-2009-RUSH-CSPAN-3-c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022621-CPAC-2009-RUSH-CSPAN-3-c-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022621-CPAC-2009-RUSH-CSPAN-3-c-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>You don\u2019t really have the full-fledged appreciation, and if you\u2019re not taught much history, then you really don\u2019t ask, &#8220;Gosh, how did this happen? Europe, Asia, been around thousands of years. They should be light years ahead of us in every measure. But they\u2019re not. Why?&#8221; Well, John Adams said, paraphrasing, &#8220;We\u2019ve written a document here that\u2019s for a moral and religious people.&#8221; We don\u2019t have a document that can handle people who aren\u2019t. He knew full well that people lived outside the realm of religion and morality were going to present problems. The Constitution was a problem to them. That\u2019s one element.<\/p>\n<p>The other element is that our founding documents establish our origins, created with certain inalienable rights by God, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And the great thing about this country is there have been assaults on it from within, and it\u2019s always survived, and it\u2019s always come back. It came back from the Great Depression, came back from World War I, we survived Jimmy Carter, and it\u2019s going to be a little tougher to survive this because we\u2019ve never had this large an assault on the foundation of this country ever. This makes what FDR did look like chump change.<\/p>\n<p>The people of this country have been able to use their talents, their entrepreneurial skills because of the acknowledgment, the origins of freedom, that our freedom does not come from whoever we elect, that whoever we elect is a threat to that freedom, that men do not grant freedom to other men, men can only imprison and take freedom away from other men. Women, too, but I\u2019m using it in a general sense. No other country has a Constitution like ours. No other country was founded like ours. That\u2019s why I continually focus on it, it\u2019s the founding principles that are under assault here and being overturned, and America\u2019s greatness as we\u2019ve known it is threatened. And that\u2019s why to me it\u2019s worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>JASON: Okay. I\u2019m Jason Lewis in today on EIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JASON: Nobody&#039;s talking about BLM, Antifa. They&#039;re responsible for what went on destroying the Minneapolis\/St. Paul area. 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