{"id":4267,"date":"2016-02-05T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-05T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:38:15","slug":"to_understand_the_democrat_debate_you_must_understand_democrat_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/05\/to_understand_the_democrat_debate_you_must_understand_democrat_voters\/","title":{"rendered":"To Understand the Democrat Debate, You Must Understand Democrat Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The Democrat debate — and, as I say, studied it. It was painful. Folks, I\u2019m not kidding. It was painful on so many levels. I literally felt like I was a visitor from someplace and was not at all living in the world they were talking about. These people sounded like they were in a foreign country. I mean, it was that striking. It was just beyond anything that happens in my day-to-day world, listening to these two. It was Grandma and Grandpa just arguing, and I suffered through this. And I\u2019m gonna explain to you why. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Democrat debate. Polling data, by the way: Bernie Sanders now leads Clinton by 20 points in New Hampshire. The Quinnipiac University poll out today says Bernie Sanders nearly tied with Hillary Clinton in a nationwide poll. Now, just for me, just a quick overview: I thought Hillary cleaned his clock last night, but that\u2019s not what they think. What I think doesn\u2019t matter. Folks, you and I have nothing in common with the people watching that debate last night. You have to watch this in order to be able to understand, it\u2019s such a different world in which they\u2019re all living and some working. <\/line><\/p>\n

Many of their voters do not work. It\u2019s key to understand this. But the thing that you have to be able to do to successfully empathize with the average Democrat voter — and I\u2019m not talking about an elite, rich Wall Street Democrats or Hollywood Democrats. I\u2019m talking about the Democrat middle class, lower middle class rank-and-file. You have to be able to watch this and understand the environment and attitudes they have watching it, which you and I do not have. We do not think like they do. We\u2019re not fatalists. We\u2019re not depressed. We\u2019re not defeatists. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not victims. <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t think everything that\u2019s going wrong is somebody else\u2019s fault because they\u2019re specifically targeting us. The liberal mind-set, as it exists today, is absent happiness. There is none. Add to that, after seven years of what was to be the fix for everything wrong not just in America, but in the world, they\u2019re even angrier. They live with the reality, probably subconsciously, that everything they voted for and believed was gonna happen — all these great things that were gonna get fixed — are worse. The first African-American president has made no positive difference whatsoever. They\u2019re faced daily with the reality which they probably do not admit that everything they believe in tanks.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not even half of it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, look. There\u2019s Obama out now, and he\u2019s hailing these fraudulent unemployment numbers released today. He\u2019s out there saying the first time unemployment rate is below 5% in eight years. It\u2019s 4.9%, and 151,000 new jobs are created. This is just… It\u2019s just a lie. It\u2019s just total fraud. What is this “first time unemployment rate”? Well, we talk about first time so we don\u2019t have to talk about the people who have been unemployed for five years, six years, seven years. So we don\u2019t talk about them. <\/p>\n

So, yeah, the number of people unemployed for the first time, is under 5%. Add those to the 94 million Americans who can\u2019t find jobs, and it\u2019s not a pretty picture. But there he is; he\u2019s out there claiming credit for it, and he said in the State of the Union show that anybody who tells you that this economy is not good is crazy or lying or whatever. Hillary Clinton spent the whole debate last night telling everybody how the economy sucks. That\u2019s one of the many things. <\/line><\/p>\n

You watch this and you don\u2019t get it. I mean, what is she complaining about? She and her party have been running this country for seven years, and she dares to detail all that\u2019s gone wrong with it? But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself here. To watch this debate last night, I tried to assume the attitude\/mental psyche of your average middle class Democrat watching it. And the thing that you have to do doing that, is you have to understand who the Democrats are today. What is their base like? They are perpetual and constant victims, folks. <\/p>\n

Many of them are poor, but even the ones what aren\u2019t poor feel they are poor. They have invested their entire lives hoping others are gonna do things for them. And of course nobody gets anywhere doing that. So when it doesn\u2019t work out, you feel like you\u2019ve been victimized. You feel like you\u2019ve been taken advantage of and forgotten. It\u2019s never your fault. They think they\u2019ve been victimized by all of them isms: sexism, racism, bigotry, homophobia, whatever it is.<\/p>\n

There is some sort of explanation that is rooted in negative behavioral traits of others who are doing mean things to them or who are standing in their way of getting anywhere, or who are purposely targeting them and keeping them down. Their misery — and that\u2019s what their lives are. Their misery, in their minds, is explained by all of these mean, powerful forces out to deny them: Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Retail, the Republican Party, talk radio, you name it.<\/p>\n

All of these powerful forces are arrayed against them and keeping them pinned down to where they can\u2019t accomplish anything. In their minds, they should have been great successes! They\u2019re the smartest people in the world. They\u2019re smarter than you, they\u2019re smarter than people running the country, but they\u2019ve never gotten a break. Everybody has given them the raw deal every day of their lives. It was either their teachers or their school or a coach or a parent. Somebody failed to see how brilliant they are, how great they are. <\/p>\n

Then it was their boss (if they ever had a job), or their employer who didn\u2019t make them company president, didn\u2019t promote them, didn\u2019t give them a raise, maybe fired them. And then you throw the cops in this! They hate the cops. The cops are out to get \u2019em. It\u2019s hopeless. In their own environment — the people they live among, the places they go to school, the places they go shop — everywhere they go is aligned and arrayed against them. They are victims of this conspiracy, and I don\u2019t mean tinfoil hat conspiracy. <\/line><\/p>\n

They are victims of unseeable, invisible, powerful forces that are arrayed against them in so many ways, it\u2019s impossible, don\u2019t you know, to overcome. The only remedy, therefore, is the government to give them the things that they are being denied because of all of these mean, powerful forces that have stacked the deck against them. Everything that\u2019s too expensive is because somebody is trying to screw them out of being unable to have it, be it higher education, be it a nice car, be it health care, be it child care.<\/p>\n

All of that stuff should rightfully have been theirs, and it should have been easily acquired, but it\u2019s being denied them — usually by the rich, who stole all of the stuff from them at one point. This is how they think. Now, you may say, “Rush, nobody thinks this way.” They do, folks. It is the only way a debate like last night makes any sense, where you have a battle between two old grandparent types arguing over who can give away the most, while punishing the most people at the same time.<\/p>\n

The only way a debate like that makes sense is if I have nailed the attitudinal psychology of these average Democrat voters. “Housing? Who can afford that!” There ought to be subsidies or vouchers or giveaways of some kind, because they can\u2019t afford these things, and it\u2019s all because somebody else is making it impossible for them. The rich, however, they\u2019ve got all this money. They ought to be paying for it, and the rich are the ones that are squeezing \u2019em to boot! So the rich ought to be paying for it. You\u2019ve heard liberals talk about access. <\/p>\n

Usually you hear them talk about how they\u2019re being denied “access” to something. That is how the liberal mind, the middle class liberal mind thinks. Such as “access” to, shall we say, reproductive, what? Rights or reproductive health care, “reproductive health care”? They\u2019re being denied “access.” Now, that phraseology makes it look like they\u2019re being denied “rights,” like they\u2019re being denied constitutional rights, human rights that are guaranteed to everybody. What “denied access” means when these people use it is, nobody\u2019s giving it to them.<\/p>\n

A little test: Going forward, when you listen to a liberal on TV talking about how they\u2019re being denied “access” to this or that, what they mean is that nobody\u2019s giving it to them. Now, the Democrat elite, the rich Democrats, they are in the same boat. But they\u2019re unhappy for different reasons. I\u2019m not gonna mess with them, not gonna bother with them right now because the focus here is the people that watched that debate last. The Democrat elites are the ones… You know, I had to laugh.<\/p>\n

Just give an example, here\u2019s Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and they\u2019re both ragging on Wall Street last night. Wall Street pays for the Democrat Party, and both of them know it. I\u2019ve got a list of all of the Wall Street… No, they\u2019re ragging on Goldman Sachs last night and the Blankfeins. Lloyd Blankfein who runs the place and his wife are two of the biggest donors of the Democrat Party! Wall Street props up the modern day Democrat Party. Wall Street does not support Republicans. And yet here these two last night are ragging on Wall Street like nobody ever has before. The reason? <\/line><\/p>\n

They know that people watching debate are blaming Wall Street and all the other “fat cats” for denying them what they should have had their entire lives and preventing them from ever having a hope of getting whatever they want or need in the future. Therefore, somebody better use government to get it to \u2019em. The liberal mind-set today has no happiness. There is no joy. They\u2019re all victims. Somebody\u2019s to blame for their misery and their lack of future. Add to it seven years of what they thought was going to be a socialist utopia. <\/p>\n

Barack Hussein Obama! “No more war! We\u2019re gonna fix global warming. We\u2019re gonna close Guantanamo Bay. We\u2019re not gonna do any more torture. We\u2019re gonna put people at Wall Street away. We\u2019re gonna put them in jail! We\u2019re gonna finally get even with all of these people who\u2019ve made life so miserable,” and instead what do they realize every day? They realize Obama\u2019s in bed with these guys they think ought to be in jail. Subconsciously, they realize that everything they voted for — and they always vote for, but they voted for in 2008.<\/p>\n

Everything they voted for has made things worse. The country\u2019s getting worse. Even they admit it\u2019s on the wrong track. They have different reasons from you and I, but the point is they had their people in power the last seven years. They\u2019ve had people in power the other party never even tried to stop. Now, these people I\u2019m talking about think the Republican Party is stopping The Great Obama each and every day. They think Obama\u2019s still an outsider doing his best to overcome these powerful forces. <\/p>\n

All of these powerful forces of denial, by the way, happen to be Republicans, in your average, warped liberal mind. Not only is there no happiness in the liberal mind-set, if you watch that debate last night, there\u2019s no pursuit of happiness. Neither Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton are about happiness. They\u2019re not about finding it. They\u2019re not about promoting it. They are not about ensuring it. They\u2019re not even cognizant of it. Happiness did not even show up, either in terms of how Bernie and Hillary portrayed themselves, or in terms of what they talked about. <\/line><\/p>\n

What they talked about last night was anger and how people are getting shafted, how people are getting screwed. Hillary is progressively angrier and louder as every day goes by because there is more racism, there is more bigotry, there\u2019s more inequality; there\u2019s more denial of rights for women, for Hispanics within for African-Americans. It never ends. It only gets worse. And the free market is to blame! Bernie Sanders talks about this sustained “rigged economy.” That\u2019s how he opened last night. “The economy… This economy is rigged! It\u2019s rigged by the people on Wall Street and whoever else!” <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m saying, “Who rigged the economy? Who possibly can rig the economy? If you have on one hand a free market, a regulated free market, how in the world do you rig it?” There\u2019s only one place. There\u2019s only one entity that can rig the market, folks. It\u2019s called Uncle Sam. The United States government is who rigs the economy. The tax code is a way to rig the economy. It\u2019s a government creation. Regulations. That\u2019s how you rig the economy. It\u2019s how you pick winners and pick losers. The market doesn\u2019t pick winners and losers. You have to win or lose. It\u2019s up to you in the market. <\/p>\n

The government coming in, picking winners and losers is rigging the market. And the government has been rigging the market for as long as there have been liberals in it. Free markets, by definition, rig nothing. Free markets reward smart. Free markets reward entrepreneurism. Free markets reward hard work. And not all the time, by the way. It\u2019s another thing these people think. They think we\u2019re full of it because we believe these “old bromides,” hard work and all that and devotion and ambition pays off.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lot more than that. It doesn\u2019t work for everybody, of course. Not everybody\u2019s a multimillionaire. Not everybody. Never has been; never will be. And because of that they\u2019re able to universally criticize it and claim it\u2019s illegitimate and so forth. The government\u2019s the biggest risk to our economy. And it isn\u2019t even close. There\u2019s nothing that comes even close. You can\u2019t even see something else in the binoculars when you\u2019re looking out there to find out the possible things could rig, damage US economy.<\/p>\n

The US government\u2019s it, and there\u2019s nothing else that you are going to see. It isn\u2019t Wall Street rigging the economy. It\u2019s Pennsylvania Avenue. “But, wait, Rush! But wait! What about quantitative easing? I\u2019ve heard you say…” Right, right, right. But Wall Street, they just had their hands open. It was Washington that decided to print all that money; it was Washington decided to give it to \u2019em. By the way, here\u2019s Bernie and these guys ragging on Goldman Sachs and so forth. <\/p>\n

Have you ever found it strange that practically every former CEO of Goldman Sachs becomes Treasury secretary, in Democrat administrations? And a Democrat Treasury secretary comes up with QE3, the Federal Reserve, so forth. They\u2019re taking the money that\u2019s coming in to Washington and giving it to their friends. They\u2019re all Democrats doing this! Wall Street funds the Democrat Party. Hillary said she\u2019s never been influenced by megadonations? (laughing) Then why are you accepting them?<\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re not giving you money \u2019cause you\u2019re pretty. They\u2019re not giving \u2019em money \u2019cause they like having you come by, have a drink with \u2019em, \u2019cause you\u2019re dull and boring. They\u2019re not giving you money \u2019cause they want to pal around with Bill and maybe get some of the action he rejects. (I\u2019m talking about babes.) They\u2019re giving you money, Hillary, because — exactly right — you are gonna pay \u2019em back with influence in kind if you ever get elected. It was just full of crap.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: And, by the way, folks, this is why I cringe when I hear Republicans talking about the need to cross the aisle. Like I heard Lindsey Grahamnesty say, “We need to go out and the get the Hispanic vote. We need to get more of this vote and that vote.” It\u2019s not possible. It\u2019s not possible to “get” them. When you understand who they are, they\u2019re not reasonable. They\u2019re not gonna be able to listen to a pitch from Lindsey Graham or anybody else saying, “No, we\u2019re not who you think we are. We\u2019re nice and so forth.” You\u2019re not even gonna get close.<\/p>\n

These people are alien to us, folks. <\/p>\n

The average middle class, lower middle class Democrat voter is so victimized. They\u2019re not angry at us because they think we\u2019re racists. They\u2019re angry at us because we\u2019re the reason they are failures! We\u2019re the reason they never amounted to anything. We\u2019re the reason they don\u2019t have anything. There\u2019s no amount of “reaching out” to them. That\u2019s their safety blanket, to be victims, to have us to blame for their failure. They\u2019re never gonna admit that we all of a sudden are nice guys and worthy of their vote. That would destroy the entire foundation they\u2019ve created in order to stay alive, even though it\u2019s miserable. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Leslie in Lafayette, Indiana, as we head to the phones. Great to have you up first today Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Love your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, you\u2019re talking about a section of society that constantly, you know, is being victimized, they think. They don\u2019t have enough. They don\u2019t have what everybody else has. Now, you know, most of them, of course, are being housed, they\u2019re being fed, they\u2019re given phones. I\u2019m not really sure you can be a victim when you\u2019re being given everything. But in my opinion, it\u2019s the working class that is being victimized by our government. We right now in our family, we farm —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. I understand. I hate to interrupt, but I know where you\u2019re going and I\u2019ve only got 30 seconds. Let me explain this. You\u2019re saying, “Hey, we\u2019re victims too; so are they.” Different ball of wax. Even though they\u2019re getting all the free stuff, that\u2019s not making them happy. That\u2019s the point. The more of it they get the more miserable they are. The more success their party has at the polls, the more in debt we go into, the more angry they are. You don\u2019t want that. You want government out of your way so that you and your farm can prosper as a result of your ingenuity, your hard work, your devotion. They\u2019re not like that. They want you punished with higher taxes or whatever else. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not wanting government out of their lives. <\/p>\n

They want more of it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to back up some of what I have said so far with some sound bites from this thing last night, because if had to watch this thing, you people are going to have to put up with some of it, too. This was the first one (I must be honest) I actually sat down and watched, and I tried to look at it as if I were a Democrat voter. And it takes a lot of effort, folks, because we are not who they are. I am not kidding. Watching this thing last night was an out-of-body experience. <\/p>\n

I really felt like I was in a foreign country listening to a foreign language. Obviously it was English, but it was so alien from the beginning to the end — from the attitudes of the moderators, the questions, the answers — just the whole atmosphere. It didn\u2019t feel like my country. It was, obviously, but it didn\u2019t feel like it. When it was over, Rachel Maddow gets up and starts hugging. She got up, walked over, hugged Hillary, hugged Bernie. She got up and hugged her grandparents. It was really, really striking.<\/p>\n