{"id":7935,"date":"2014-10-31T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-31T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:38:52","slug":"the_tragic_failure_of_the_great_society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/31\/the_tragic_failure_of_the_great_society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Failure of the Great Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We\u2019re going to go to Al in Fort Myers, Florida. Great to have you, sir, and I appreciate your patience. I\u2019m really glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I hear you fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can hear you fine, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to thank you for all you do and for giving birth to an alternative media. I don\u2019t know where we would be without yourself and Fox and the other people who take the other side of the story for us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to comment on the Chicago activists unchained who were on Rebel Pundit the other day. Here were four fairly intelligent, articulate men going off on the lack of good, if not the damage done to the major cities in this country by neoliberalism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on just a second. I need to tell people what you\u2019re referring to for those who weren\u2019t here. There\u2019s a website called RebelPundit.com<\/a> and they found four former Democrat Party activists, African-American community organizer types. Many of them had served prison time. And they went on a four-minute — well, it was actually longer, it was edited down to a four-minute rant, and we played it in four separate one-minute segments. These guys just took the Democrats apart, and they properly — it was amazing — they properly, correctly blamed the Democrat Party for everything that\u2019s gone wrong in the country, and particularly the mess that\u2019s been made of the African-American population and community. <\/p>\n

<\/a>And they pulled no punches. It was not prompted. It was not rehearsed. You could tell it was off the cuff. They were speaking extemporaneously. Maybe we can resurrect those bites for later on in the program, because it is worth hearing again. There hasn\u2019t been any talk in the Drive-By Media. It never made the Drive-Bys but it\u2019s all over social media. And that\u2019s what Al here is calling about. Okay, I\u2019m sorry for the interruption, but I wanted people to understand what you were talking about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Understood. They were pointing out that their chosen Democrat leaders live very well, but nothing good has happened to their communities or to them. These people are palpably disillusioned. And it occurred to me that the Great Society is going on 50 years old. It will be 50 in the spring of next year. And I thought, this sounds like a mid-life crisis. They wake up one day and they realize that they\u2019ve gotten everything they dreamed of. A black, liberal Democrat president, a Democrat Senate, they had two years of a Democrat House, a pretty liberal judiciary, and a liberal, fawning mainstream media. And what did it get them? <\/p>\n

Nothing. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re worse off than they were when Obama took office. The worst unemployment participation rate in decades. It reminds me the old Chinese curse: May you get what you wish for. And what the Great Society, 50 years and trillions of dollars of Great Society programs have delivered is lives of perpetual mediocrity and disenchantment and dissatisfaction. And the upshot is that no one who depends upon government for their daily support is ever gonna know the satisfaction and mental security that comes with one\u2019s own earned success and achievement. And I think those guys present a greater threat to the liberal Democrat Party than the Republicans do since they\u2019re believable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me bring some historical perspective to this. While these four guys were indeed more passionate and more spot-on, and I would say more pointed, they\u2019re by no means the first to come along and do this. And so far they\u2019re doing it in a vacuum. This is not to criticize them. But the point is, I would venture to say that 97% of the black population has no idea what you and I are talking about, if they were listening, would not know what you\u2019re talking about. They haven\u2019t seen it. They probably haven\u2019t heard about it. And the odds are they won\u2019t. <\/p>\n