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RUSH: I mentioned earlier this Washington Post editorial: “The Utter Ugliness of Donald Trump\u2019s Campaign Should Scare Us All<\/a> — The stunningly handy wins by two anti-establishment candidates in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday are prompting conversation about similarities between New York businessman Donald Trump, the Republican victor, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the socialist victor on the Democratic side.”<\/p>\n

The Washington Post says: “We think both men are dangerously if seductively wrong in their facile diagnoses and prescriptions. But Mr. Sanders\u00c2\u2019s platform is at least well-meaning.” Now, see, this is where I part ways with these people. “Well meaning.” Mr. Sanders is a staunch socialist who, for all intents and purposes, may as well be a communist. He has embraced the Soviet Union. He\u2019s embraced Castro\u2019s Cuba. He honeymooned in both places. Socialism, slash, communism, what Bernie Sanders loves, is inarguably responsible for at least a hundred million deaths around the world. <\/p>\n

Socialism and communism has caused untold, endless human misery wherever it has been fully employed. People still literally die trying to escape it, as in Cuba. You don\u2019t want to know what happens to people in China who try to get out. And the Soviet Union back in its heyday, they had to build walls in these places to keep people in. People died left and right trying to escape. And yet the Washington Post isn\u2019t afraid of Bernie Sanders. No, no, no. Bernie is so well meaning. <\/line><\/p>\n

But Trump, why, this is dangerous. “Mr. Trump\u00c2\u2019s proposals are pernicious as well as preposterous. There is no way to round up 11 million illegal immigrants and deport them — but no one should want to live in a nation that would attempt such a thing,” writes the Washington Post. Well, leave it to me once again to counter this. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower together deported nearly six million illegal aliens. You don\u2019t even want to talk about what FDR did, another Democrat. Nobody complained about it at the time. <\/p>\n

You know, you talk about the last 50 years and how socialism has suddenly now, in our face, overtaken much of American culture and almost all of American education. Nobody complained at the time when we deported nearly six million illegal aliens. And now the idea of doing something so inhumane, who do we think we are. <\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s gotten so bad that we think we ought to have open borders in order to be nice to people around the world, and why do people think that? Because they have bought the idea that somehow the circumstances in which people live around the world is our fault. That\u2019s also part of the modern education system. It\u2019s part of the Barack Obama ideology. The US is to blame for the misery of the world. We\u2019re certainly not the solution to it. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Trump is mocking the democratic process, not engaging in it. He feels no obligation to explain how he would implement his ideas, and he does not care whether his statements are true.” Actually, Trump has published a pretty detailed policy paper on immigration, and he has issued position papers on a lot of his other plans. It\u2019s just that the Washington Post doesn\u2019t care to notice or give them any credence. <\/line><\/p>\n

But where are Hillary Clinton\u2019s position papers? Where\u2019s all the brilliance, where\u2019s all the compassion, where\u2019s all the wonderfulness that\u2019s gonna come from Hillary Clinton? You listen to those people talk, I don\u2019t know how in the world anybody can listen to either Hillary or Bernie talk and talk about how they\u2019re well meaning. You talk about people that are obsessed with pessimism, doom, gloom. I\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t avoid repeating myself from yesterday. I listen to these people and their acceptance speeches on Tuesday night. They have run this country expressly for the past seven years. They are directly culpable and responsible in every complaint they lodged. <\/p>\n

To listen to these people complain about the health care system in this country? How dare they. They gave it to us. They set out to destroy the greatest health care system in the world. It has been taken over with something called Obamacare, and the little secret about Obamacare is it was designed to create chaos. It was designed to make it a mess because the long-term objective was to have the American people so angry and so frazzled and so panicked that they would ask the government to come in and fix it and take it over. That was the long-term plan Barack Obama had for socialized medicine: Make the people demand it. <\/p>\n

How do you do that? Screw it up royally. That\u2019s the phase we\u2019re in with American health care now. Rising prices, rising premiums with rising deductibles. Still 29 million uninsured, which was apparently supposedly one of the reasons why we did this. Had that really been the objective, we could have done it for one-tenth the cost. But it never was the objective, to insure the uninsured. That was just what they said to sell it to these big-hearted liberals who don\u2019t think about anything, they just “feel” it. <\/p>\n

So they felt good supporting this stuff. “We\u2019re gonna insure the uninsured! Affordable health care for all Americans!” And that\u2019s all it was to them. Nancy Pelosi, the day Obamacare was signed, was running all over the country, “It\u2019s such a great day! Affordable health care for all Americans!” It was over 2,000 pages that people hadn\u2019t read. The one thing it wasn\u2019t was “affordable,” and it also wasn\u2019t for all Americans. But none of that mattered. <\/line><\/p>\n

When Obama signed it, they were able to go out and characterize it however they wanted. “Affordable health care for all Americans,” and that gets reported, and that\u2019s what everybody thinks. And point in fact, many low-information Americans thought it was going to be free, that that\u2019s what the whole thing was about. That\u2019s what Obama was going to do. He was gonna make it free. That\u2019s how he was gonna make it work for everybody, because before Obama it was so expensive nobody could afford it. It was out of control and it was unfair. <\/p>\n

And the doctors weren\u2019t being fair! Nobody was getting the proper treatment or the diagnosis and tests. It wasn\u2019t fair! And now it\u2019s affordable health care for all Americans, and many of them thought it was gonna be free. Every complaint everybody had is worse by design. Even the insurance companies getting rich, people said back then… Just to relive a little recent history, people were asking me left and right, “Rush, you say this is designed to destroy the private sector insurance market.” <\/p>\n

I said, “It is.” <\/p>\n

“Well, then why are the insurance companies so eager to sign on to it?” <\/line><\/p>\n

“The answer to that\u2019s simple: They have been guaranteed by law that every single American, by law, is mandated to have their product. Every American is ordered by Obamacare to have health care, to have health insurance. And for a few years, you can only get it from a health insurance company via an Obama exchange. So they signed onto this because in the short term, they make out like bandits! They don\u2019t even have to advertise anymore, because the law of the land is that everybody has to have it.” <\/p>\n

Can you imagine such a law about skillets? <\/p>\n

Can you imagine such a law about 4K TVs? <\/p>\n

Pick any product you want, and imagine the federal government mandates that everybody buy one or else they get a fine. So the insurance company said, “Hell, we\u2019re signing on to that! Where do we sign? Give me the dotted line! I want to sign right now.” And they took the opportunity here to make some big bucks real quick. It was easy to figure out. The bottom line with all this is it\u2019s supposed to get so chaotic, and it\u2019s supposed to be so expensive and so unworkable, that after a while we are all supposed to rise up en masse and beg whoever is running the country at the time:<\/p>\n

“Would you please fix this! Please just take it over.” And somebody will come along and say, “I\u2019d be happy to. Single payer is probably be the best way to make this happen. Don\u2019t you think? We could really streamline this,” they\u2019ll say. “We could simplify it happen you just have to go one place now. Go to your local government office. That\u2019s all you have to do: Sign up, and you\u2019re done. And we\u2019ll take care of everything after that.” “Yeah, man! That\u2019s cool. That\u2019s the way to do it. Single payer! Yeah. <\/p>\n

“Get rid of the insurance companies and all this other unfair stuff. Yeah.” That\u2019s the objective. Just like Fast and Furious was designed to get everybody so ticked off about guns being purchased in American gun stores and being used by drug cartels, that we were supposed to stand up en masse and demand that Obama get rid of these guns. It didn\u2019t work out in that case. And depending on who wins the presidency in November, Obama\u2019s long-term plans in Obamacare might not work out, either.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is Bob in Coronado, California. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I have a question. And it\u2019s regarding your coming-full-circle discussion, and it pertains especially to college-age people in universities and so forth. I\u2019m similar in age to you. You know, 50 years ago they were a pretty rebellious group. I was a little bit younger. I was only 12 or 13 when such things were going on in the campuses. But today, they\u2019re the most compliant group, and I don\u2019t understand that. I\u2019ve always had a hard time figuring out, “Why is this group so enamored with the administration, the status quo?” ‘Cause that\u2019s not the way it used to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but, see, this is the key. Even back in the sixties, the era you\u2019re talking about, they were compliant. They were obedient. It\u2019s just to a different kind of influence and different group of people. But your question, the answer to it illustrates the slow, steady stick-to-itiveness of the left. It\u2019s taken them 40 years to bring about the reality that you just mentioned. And they have been very subtle and very patient. They have hidden the beauties and the fairness and all of the wonderful things of socialism in the curriculum and in the various new ways that education has taken place. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not something that they, immediately, 40 years ago sat people down and started pointing in their faces, “This is socialism! You will love it!” They were conditioned slowly but surely like frogs in a pan of cold water when the heat gets slowly turned up. They stay in the pot until they finally realize it\u2019s boiling — and it\u2019s too late; they\u2019re dead. This has been a very, very subtle, never ending series of events throughout their whole lives that have brought us to this point. The thing that amazes me is socialism has never worked. It has never worked. Neither has communism, and yet it remains the most seductive ideology. It\u2019s the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity, and it yet remains seductive like nothing else is. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another component here, to answer your question.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m going to take another stab at this. The question was asked… It\u2019s a great question, and understanding the answer to this, I think, is like understanding the answer to a lot of things. It\u2019s necessary if we hope to reverse or fix it, whatever your frame of reference is. The question is, back in the 1960s the anti-establishment protesters were blowing up bank buildings and protesting government everywhere they could. They were protesting the Vietnam War; they were just radicals, and they were protesting what appeared to be…<\/p>\n

This is the key: It appeared they were protesting centralized government, command-and-control authority. It appeared that they were protesting that. Now, the point is that all of those people, wherever they were — San Francisco, wherever they were in the country — were all being obedient to whoever it was that was riling them up. Where were they getting riled up? Who were they? They were students. Who was riling them up? Who was teaching them? Who was influencing them to oppose all of this command-and-control authority? <\/line><\/p>\n

It was professors and the entire university system. <\/p>\n

Now, the radical students of that era have ended up, in large part, where? Bill Clinton was one of them. A number of the people that Clinton populated his administration with were part of that SDS mentality, Students for a Democratic Society. They were all oriented toward communism even then. They were all oriented toward socialism. The Soviet Union was their utopia back then. The Soviet Union was the place that had all the answers. So they haven\u2019t really changed. What\u2019s changed is that they\u2019re not outside the government protesting to be heard; they have taken over the government. <\/p>\n

Many of the SDS radicals… Look at the Bill Ayerses of the world. Who do you think Obama is, folks? And where did he come from? He comes right out of this era. He regrets that he was too young to actually have been a street protester. But all of his formative experiences and friends in Chicago were of that era. Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn — and, to a lesser extent, Reverend Wright. He had his own radical agenda. It wasn\u2019t actually SDS, but still, these people were all part of a giant, anti-America, pro-communist mind-set. And that has not changed. <\/p>\n

The difference is now they don\u2019t have to protest the government because they have taken it over, and now they are using it. The whole purpose… In every movement you\u2019ve got the schlubs and the leaders, and there are two different agendas. The schlubs are the true believers. They fall hook, line, and sinker for all the seductive promises. They\u2019re the ones that believe there is a utopia awaiting the other side of the protest march. The leaders are in it for an entirely different reason: Money and power. It is always money and power.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re talking about a communist dictator or any other kind of leader, it is always power and money. Sometimes the quest for power and money is governed by morality and virtue, and that\u2019s the United States of America from our founding. Other times, whatever it takes to acquire power and money. If you have to murder your citizens, if you have to plunder your own treasury and hide the money in Switzerland, you do what you do. But it\u2019s always about power and money. And the power is the power over people. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The desire to have power to control people so as to ensure your place in the hierarchy that you have imagined or envisioned for yourself. Bernie Sanders\u2019 voters are classic examples of these true believer followers who haven\u2019t the slightest idea that what awaits them is total authoritarian, statist domination. They believe in the utopia. They believe in the sweetness. They believe in the light. They believe in the fairness and the equality and the sameness. They believe in the no suffering, no pain, no unhappiness. That\u2019s what seduces them. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what Bernie (and to a lesser extent Hillary and every leftist) promises. Of course the exact opposite always happens, without fail, without exemption. There never is happiness and sameness and equality and fairness. There is misery compounded on misery compounded on misery as the reality dawns that all the promises are never gonna come true. Then anger and outrage sets in, and the leaders who have been taking these people along, then blame people like Republicans for their misery, which is Obama\u2019s classic move. <\/p>\n

You blame Republicans for standing in your way. You blame the fact that there is opposition to your desire for sameness, fairness, equality, everybody being nice, and everybody having something and enough. Whatever it is that you\u2019ve defined as your nirvana, when it doesn\u2019t happen (because it can\u2019t happen unless you provide it for yourself), they blame others. If you\u2019re waiting for other people to provide it for you, they\u2019re gonna take care of themselves first and (raspberry) you and you\u2019re gonna be left out. When that happens, your leaders come along and blame your political opponents and tell \u2019em they have no heart.<\/p>\n

They tell you they have no heart, they have no compassion, they don\u2019t care about you. When in fact, the very people you\u2019ve been following are the ones who sold you out and have been lying to you from the get-go. That is where we are right now in this country. That is how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders — after being in charge for seven years and ruining aspects of this country with the hope and desire to ruin even more — get away with blaming the Republicans, who haven\u2019t had a single fingerprint on any of this, other than they haven\u2019t tried to stop it. <\/p>\n

And even at that, they still get blamed! <\/p>\n

So there is an obedience that makes all of this possible, a follower mentality that makes it all possible. The misery and anger grows from the failure of the promise. And that\u2019s where you end up with the sewer on Twitter, with all of these angry, anonymous people fed up that life has given them the raw deal. They should have had it all. They should have had everything. They\u2019re the ones who gave it everything they\u2019ve got, they think, but these invisible forces of powerful banks and rich billionaires have seen to it that they\u2019ve got nothing. <\/p>\n

They are perpetual, eternal victims. And over here is the continuing fraud of the promise of utopia. And as long as there is an able-bodied salesman for it, somehow it continues to seduce, particularly the young. One other component is very important, that in this era I think makes it especially sellable on the part of the leftist totalitarian leadership, such as Obama and the entire Democrat Party — and that is nobody has any money, folks. Look at the number of people that don\u2019t have jobs: 94 million Americans are not working. Of the people who are working, how many of them are seeing stagnant wages? <\/p>\n

How many of them are scared that they\u2019re gonna lose their jobs? <\/p>\n

How many of them think they\u2019re barely holding on; that their savings, if they have any, are gonna be used up in surviving? People are coming out of college with six-figure debt. They\u2019re coming out with absolutely worthless, unmarketable degrees, like Women and Earth Science Studies for the Preservation of the Spotted Owl Boot or some such thing. They don\u2019t have any money. Many of them are still living with mom and dad at age 30? And I don\u2019t care what all these people say… You know, it\u2019s almost a virtuous thing for people on the left to say, “I don\u2019t care for money. I\u2019m not about money. I\u2019m much, much further advanced. <\/line><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t care about money. Money is yuck! I don\u2019t need money.” And whenever anybody says that, know this: It\u2019s only the money. I don\u2019t care who they are, I don\u2019t care what they tell you, I don\u2019t care how convincing they are: Everybody wants money, and everybody wants more than they have. And if you know anybody who tells you that they don\u2019t, the odds are it\u2019s totally untrue because it\u2019s necessary. But with the destruction of the private sector economy, how can it be otherwise? As this government has grown, how does it grow? <\/p>\n

How does the government grow? How in the world does it get so big? It has to take from somewhere. Like one-sixth of the private sector economy is gone. The American health care industry is gone. One-sixth of it! There\u2019s a lot of opportunity for wealth in that industry that\u2019s now controlled by the government. As the government grows, as the government gets big, as the government spends money, it has to borrow it. There is this pretense of paying down the debt. And the government borrows money.<\/p>\n

For every dollar the government borrows, that\u2019s less in the private sector for an entrepreneur to borrow, to grow a business, or what have you. And this has been going on for a long, long time. Slowly and steadily the national debt\u2019s gone from $12 trillion to almost $20 trillion under Obama. It may not have materialized in the government collapsing, but the manifestation of this is that there\u2019s simply a smaller pie in the private sector where real wealth in this country exists. That\u2019s where the opportunity for real wealth has always been. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what set the American nation apart from every other ever in the history of mankind: the private sector pie. Call it the United States economy if “private sector” doesn\u2019t sit well with you as a term. But as that shrinks — simple mathematics — as that shrinks there is less and less of that pie for more and more people to get their piece of. Now, the way America\u2019s always dealt with that is that that pie has always grown. That\u2019s what economic growth is, the pie getting bigger. And it\u2019s the result of output, production, productivity, creativity, entrepreneurism, and the more government takes of it, the less it can grow. And that\u2019s where we are. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know how many of these people understand all that. What they realize is they don\u2019t have any money. What they realize is they\u2019ve got college educations that are not gonna get them any money. I am talking about career money. I am talking about the opportunity to create wealth. I\u2019m not talking about millionaire wealth. I\u2019m talking about incomes of 150, 200, 300, whatever. That\u2019s all been condemned. How do you lump a $200,000 income with a $1 million income and claim that both are immoral? That\u2019s another thing that\u2019s happened here. You\u2019re never gonna convince a family of four at 200 grand that they\u2019re evil, the evil rich stealing from everyone. They\u2019re barely getting by on their own \u2019cause everybody lives to their income. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no comparison, and yet there is. Two hundred thousand is said to be no different in terms of how we tax people and the way we think of people. But the point is the pie has shrunken. There\u2019s no opportunity to really create wealth by virtue of hard work and a great career and the slow march that that\u2019s always taken to age 40. You now either make it as a college dropout and become a billionaire or you don\u2019t, in the eyes of young people. You either become a Zuckerberg or a Bill Gates, or you don\u2019t. There\u2019s no in between. <\/p>\n

So how do you live? You have to eat. You have to have some sustenance. Government comes along, great leader like Obama promises you you\u2019re gonna have health care. “Okay, I got that expense out of the way, I\u2019ll support that.” Promises you you\u2019re gonna have unemployment compensation for as long as you don\u2019t work. “Fine, I need that, \u2019cause I can\u2019t get a job.” And pretty soon you\u2019re signing up for the government taking care of you because you don\u2019t think there\u2019s any other option. <\/p>\n

You look around and you see other people doing well not feeding and living off the government. And you think it\u2019s not possible for me because the salesmanship on capitalism and private sectorism doesn\u2019t compare with the salesmanship of liberalism. That\u2019s the Democrat Party versus the Republican Party. Answer to the question right there. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: In the 1960s, the students were protesting what? America. The students, the professors, everybody, America sucks, don\u2019t believe your government, your government sucks. Those people now run the government. What\u2019s their message? America sucks, America\u2019s unfair, America\u2019s unjust. They\u2019re running it but it still is unfair and unjust. <\/p>\n

Look at Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. They\u2019re running the government. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, they\u2019ve been running the government since the nineties. It\u2019s still unfair, it\u2019s still unjust, you\u2019re still not gonna get a fair shake. Why? Republicans. You can\u2019t trust your own country. The message hasn\u2019t changed from the sixties to today. It\u2019s just the leaders are in a different place. They were back in the classroom back in the sixties; they\u2019re running the government today. And still running it down in every which way you can think of. And this opportunity, the creation of wealth, that has been so important. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: The American pie, the American economy has always grown. That\u2019s how wealth has been created, with people trying to get their piece of it. It\u2019s never been a zero-sum game. Somebody gets a piece, somebody loses a piece. It\u2019s always been the pie grows, and it grows as Americans work hard and produce more, create more. <\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s not happening. The government\u2019s taking ever bigger chunks of that pie. Fewer people are working in that pie. It isn\u2019t growing, and therefore whoever gets pieces of it, it\u2019s becoming a zero-sum game, all brought to you by the American left and the Democrat Party. If they\u2019re in charge of who has money, can you blame people for turning to them?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now here\u2019s Trump. Trump\u2019s explaining why we are in such dire economic straits.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Because we\u2019ve let China take over our economy, as you\u2019ve been hearing me say for a long time. We are very, very vulnerable. We are no longer controlling our own destiny. We are in the big sphere of other countries all over the world that control us, and they\u2019re manipulators. They have a tremendous power of manipulation of their currencies, and we are entering that web, and even we\u2019re not manipulators because we\u2019re not smart enough to be manipulators. Believe me, our leaders are not smart enough. We are nevertheless in the manipulation business because of the fact that some of the great moneychangers of all time are people that, you know, we\u2019re wedded with them. And China would be number one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s all well and good, but I\u2019m sorry. I just gave you the biggest explanation for America\u2019s economic woes in the previous half hour. It\u2019s the Democrat Party. It is liberalism. It\u2019s socialism. It\u2019s big government expansionism. It simply cannot keep gobbling up pieces of the American economy, otherwise known as our pie. You can\u2019t keep gobbling… You cannot continue to make it smaller. You can\u2019t make it smaller while the government, which produces nothing, grows. The government destroys wealth and creates debt. <\/line><\/p>\n

The government does not create wealth, other than with crony socialism or crony capitalism. But in that case, it\u2019s the creation wealth for donors. It\u2019s creating wealth for political simpaticos. It is not creating wealth for the government because the government can\u2019t. It\u2019s $20 trillion in debt. Now, the ChiComs are not our friends, don\u2019t misunderstand. But this is a Republican presidential primary, and the opposition here is not the ChiComs. The opposition is the Democrat Party. I mentioned earlier that one of the reasons we\u2019re in this plight is something no more complicated than salesmanship. <\/p>\n

Liberalism has done a much better job selling itself to the great unwashed and to the low-information voter than capitalism has in selling itself. The Republican Party has sought to let capitalism speak for itself. They have not promoted it. They have not promoted free market entrepreneurism \u2019cause they\u2019re afraid of being called conservatives if they do that. So there hasn\u2019t been any competition. The left really hasn\u2019t had to compete against any alternative ideas. There hasn\u2019t been any salesmanship, except here on talk radio. <\/p>\n

There has not been (coming from the Republican Party) any sustained message of how wonderful free market capitalism is, how it is the explanation for this nation as a superpower, how free market capitalism is the sole reason why we have the greatest standard of living known to exist ever in the history of humanity. Not socialism. Not communism. Not whatever other ism. Capitalism. But it has been denigrated, destroyed, beat up, maligned, impugned, every day on college campuses for 50 years if not more. <\/p>\n

In junior high and high school classrooms, ditto.<\/line><\/p>\n

On the Drive-By news every day and night for 50 years, ditto.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been any push back. There hasn\u2019t been any competitive capitalist voice. In fact, the success stories in capitalism, they try to hide it so people don\u2019t come and try to steal their money. The success stories in capitalism try to remain hidden. They don\u2019t talk about how they did it. They don\u2019t talk about wealth, because it\u2019s thought to be insensitive and unfeeling. And so the success stories — i.e., the motivators, those who can inspire — shut up because they have been made the suspects. They have made suspects out of achievers. <\/p>\n

We have made suspects out of success.<\/p>\n

We have made suspects out of people who want to achieve. We have made suspects out of people who want to achieve and succeed at things. We have even denigrated hard work. (interruption) Oh, yes, we have! We have denigrated hard work. We have attempted to disqualify it and disclaim it on the basis, “Well, it\u2019s not fair because not everybody has the time to work has hard as so-and-so does.” If you doubt me, go back to Half-Baked Moon Bay, California, where they tried to ban homework because not everybody had a home, or not everybody had a decent enough home in which to do homework.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t fair. <\/p>\n

The students who had nice homes could do homework so they would get ahead of students that didn\u2019t have nice homes and couldn\u2019t do homework. So homework was banned. Education was banned. Teaching — self-teaching, everything — was banned, under the supposed guise of freedom and equality. And that\u2019s where we are. Capitalism doesn\u2019t have anybody that wants to sing its virtues. Everybody\u2019s afraid. Everybody\u2019s afraid they\u2019re gonna be attacked. Everybody\u2019s afraid they\u2019re gonna be maligned, impugned, maybe imprisoned. They\u2019re gonna be called thieves, whatever else. So they just go about their business and shut up. <\/p>\n

And then when they do become successful, what do they do? <\/line><\/p>\n

They make excuses for it. “Well, you know, I lucked out! I\u2019m just one of these lucky guys. I just happened to succeed.” <\/p>\n

Instead of being used as role models to inspire others, to show how it was done, we make suspects out of \u2019em. It\u2019s a horrible, horrible thing. Yeah, the ChiComs. But our biggest problem, the biggest obstacle to the creation of wealth in the United States of America is the Democrat Party. You want some names? Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, take your pick, John Kerry, Dick Durbin. The names are endless. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi. And note all of them have theirs. All of them have their multimillions. They\u2019ve all got their business. Pelosi is filthy rich. So is Harry Reid. And they all do this on government salaries? Wonder how that happens? <\/p>\n

Yeah. Bernie Sanders is right, the game\u2019s rigged, but his party has been doing the rigging. “Are you saying the Republicans are totally blameless?” No. I\u2019m not. The Republicans are off the playing field. The Republicans are not even trying to advance the ball for what they believe in. They\u2019re trying to make everybody think they\u2019re not who they are, they\u2019ve been so successfully tarred and feathered. <\/p>\n

But, yes, I\u2019m here to tell you, liberalism versus capitalism, it\u2019s hands down, liberalism is to blame for the plight this country is in. Socialism is to blame, communism, or the desire to be one of those isms, which desires are harbored by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They\u2019ve said so. I don\u2019t have to make it up. They say so, particularly Obama. He has not hidden his desire and admiration for all of those isms, if you just listen. We have aired many of the sound bites where Obama has said these things over the years. <\/p>\n

Folks, we\u2019re seven years into this Regime. If what they believe in had any element of truth, don\u2019t you think there would be some signs that we\u2019ve turned around and we\u2019re getting better? Wouldn\u2019t there be some job creation? Wouldn\u2019t there be some economic growth? Wouldn\u2019t there be some sign, wouldn\u2019t there be some optimism out there, wouldn\u2019t there be some indication that finally we got rid of the evils of the Iraq war and the Bush administration and whatever else went wrong there and we finally turned the corner, but no, they don\u2019t even admit that. They can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

They still act like this country is in the throes of the Iraq war and the Republicans are still running it, after seven years of them being in charge. Listen to their campaign. Listen to Hillary, listen to Bernie Sanders. You would think that Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are still running this country. Not Barack Obama, and not his Democrat cohorts who have taken this country and run it right into the ground the past seven years. You would not know any of that happened. <\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t expect \u2019em to admit it. But the education system is so, so inept, woefully out of whack, that people are unable to critically think and arrive at these conclusions on their own. It\u2019s a sad, sad, sad, sad state of affairs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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