{"id":395395,"date":"2021-04-30T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=395395"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:31:56","slug":"heed-rushs-words-dont-let-democrats-replace-the-american-dream-with-class-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/30\/heed-rushs-words-dont-let-democrats-replace-the-american-dream-with-class-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed Rush\u2019s Words: Don\u2019t Let Democrats Replace the American Dream with Class Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: You can\u2019t go a couple of miles without looking at folks who are out there across this country desperately working hard and trying to make sure this country continues to succeed. I see so many people around my area — and, more broadly, this part of the country — who are busily going about their days.<\/p>\n

Much of the lockdowns and the shutdowns where we are here have been lifted. But I know in many other places, it\u2019s still sort of aspirational. We know that the intent is to lift the lockdowns — the covid lockdowns in New York — at some point so that people can get back to the business of being robbed and assaulted on the streets of Bill de Blasio\u2019s metropolis.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the reality is, people really do want to work, and why is it that people want to work? It\u2019s because they feel called to do it, but they also feel this inner desire and burning and yearning to provide for their families. It\u2019s why you get up every day with that alarm clock while it\u2019s dark outside and you start working and providing for your family and for your loved ones.<\/p>\n

Well, if you think about that piece that we were referencing in the beginning of the program — this piece out of Zero Hedge talking about 34% of all household income in the United States is now being derived from the government — you\u2019d be right to be worried about whether or not that American dream is gonna go away. Is it in danger? In fact, Rush talked about this, asking the question,<\/a> “Have liberals succeeded in replacing the American dream with class envy?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: “To the extent that half the people of the country think the American dream is dead, that means half the American people are being told it\u2019s dead.” That means — and this is very sad. It means that way too many people are not being reminded by leaders of the greatness of this country. Thomas Sowell. Where is this? He has a great, great quote. Let me see if I can paraphrase it.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m going to botch it if I paraphrase it. But it\u2019s essentially how much ahead of the game you are being born in America and what a crime it is that so many people in this country do not understand that. Our leaders today — and by that I mean the Democrat Party, the American left from Obama on down — do nothing but attack the American people.<\/p>\n

They beat us up every day. We get nothing but criticism from this administration and from the Democrat Party. We\u2019re greedy, selfish. We consume too much energy. We have more than our fair share of everything from salt to food to trans-fats. We drive the wrong cars, we use the wrong kind of light bulbs, we don\u2019t pay enough in taxes, we use too much health care.<\/p>\n

The people who lead this country are dumping on us, the achievers in this country, each and every day — and blaming us, blaming you, blaming the achievers for all the problems not only in this country but in the world. So it\u2019s totally understandable to me, but unacceptable, that half the people in this country think the American dream is dead when we don\u2019t have political leaders extolling the whole concept of American exceptionalism anymore.<\/p>\n

You know what I remember about the \u201980s and the Reagan years? There\u2019s one thing that stands out. Everybody… You who weren\u2019t alive or who are too young don\u2019t realize the misery of the late Seventies. I mean, it was as bad as it is today. It was horrible. Add gasoline lines, add all kinds of skyrocketing energy prices to everything else that was going on, to the incompetence of a peanut farmer in the White House. I mean, it was…<\/p>\n

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There was a misery index to describe it! Even our own president described the country as being in a malaise. It was bad. And there were people talking about the end of America\u2019s salad days even then. Then Reagan got elected and there was immediately, even in the midst of a recession, the \u201981-\u201982 recession, an immediate transformation. People all of a sudden were up and happy and were saying, “You know what?<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got to go through this. This is a much needed corrective measure, this economic mess that we\u2019re in. Because a bunch of stuff has been going on that was fraudulent and phony; this connection has to happen.” And I remember, maybe it was… I don\u2019t remember where it was, some television show. I don\u2019t even remember who it was. But some people were analyzing, “Well, what has Reagan done for the country?”<\/p>\n

I mean, the tax cuts had happened but they really hadn\u2019t kicked in. The Reagan economic boom was just beginning but it hadn\u2019t started. “What has Reagan done?” And the very simple answer: “He\u2019s made people feel good about the country again.” Ronald Reagan made people feel good about their country again, made them proud to feel Americans. Is Obama making you proud to feel American? Is anybody in the Democratic Party making you proud of being an American? No! They\u2019re blaming you!<\/p>\n

You\u2019re destroying the climate. You\u2019re destroying the polar bear habitat. You are doing this, you\u2019re doing that. You\u2019re eating too much! You\u2019re too fat! You\u2019re driving the wrong kind of car. You don\u2019t care enough about the disadvantaged. You\u2019re a racist, you\u2019re a sexist, you\u2019re a bigot and you\u2019re a homophobe — and half the people who hear this happen to agree with it.<\/p>\n

Half the people are already down on themselves anyway, and so when Obama says, “We\u2019re no longer going to be a country that leads the world economically,” people say, “Thank God. Now I don\u2019t have to work hard.” So to the extent that we have economic stagnation in this country, it\u2019s not just because of the destructive policies of this regime.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because of their attitudes. It is their purpose. They are seeking to create this defeatist attitude. And the Democrats hated Reagan: “Oh, yeah. Reagan sees everything through rose-colored glasses. What Reagan sees is unreal. That\u2019s not an America that can exist anymore.” Frankly, I\u2019m fed up with this view of America that they have.<\/p>\n

BRETT: It\u2019s incredible. Point for point, it applies to where we are right now. After a year in this pandemic and in this government-created catastrophe of shutdown and lockdown, did you ever think…? Be honest, regardless of your political orientation. You can be a liberal; you can be conservative. Did you ever think there would be a time where people would be paid not to work to such an extent that they would refuse to then go to work?<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, we\u2019ve been through disasters before. We\u2019ve been through 9\/11. We\u2019ve been through the Great Depression. We\u2019ve been through the malaise of the seventies, as Rush talked about. But, I mean, did you ever think the people would say, “You know what? I\u2019m not going to work, \u2019cause I\u2019m getting a really good check here from the government. I\u2019m gonna take my stimulus money and I\u2019m gonna take some time off and spend some time at home.”<\/p>\n

What? And the people who are gonna save this country, you and me — and it\u2019s gonna be some of the Millennials, a good portion of the Millennials. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re lost. Well, they have been certainly demoralized by a couple of meltdowns. It\u2019s gonna be Gen Z, those kids born in \u201995 and after into the early 2010s, because those are the kids that are college and high school kids that saw up close and personal the ravages of the post-economic meltdown collapse in 2008.<\/p>\n

They saw the very good years, the four years of Trump, where the economy was on fire. The unemployment was 3%. You did not imagine that. I did not imagine that. The money in your pocket, you did not imagine that. The pride you felt, you did not imagine that. Across the spectrum, you did not imagine that. This was not a dream. What this was, was a catastrophe that struck our nation.<\/p>\n

Now you have a person in the White House who is saying, “The only way forward is for me to open the Treasury to save you,” when the fundamentals of the businesses that were out there (that certainly suffered in the shutdown) are still there. People still know how to run businesses. People still know how to adapt. People still understand all of that. The American dream isn\u2019t dead.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden is attempting to push it into hiding, but it\u2019s there. It\u2019s there. I have a couple of young teenagers and child in college, and the two of them have found employment. When they went in for their interviews, what they effectively heard was, “We\u2019re so glad you\u2019re here. We\u2019ve been desperate to hire. People don\u2019t want to come out and work.”<\/p>\n

Those kids, those teenagers, those young people, those are gonna be the people who are gonna be the next generation of capitalism. We need to support that. We need to encourage that. They have a sense of duty and a sense of worth, and they have a burning desire. You should remember that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

BRETT: Do you remember the good old days — well, not really the good old days. But do you remember during the Obama administration, the news media got creative with negative branding and oftentimes would call unemployment “fun-employment”? Do you remember this? This is incredible.<\/p>\n

Fun-employment!<\/p>\n

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