{"id":214209,"date":"2016-08-12T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/12\/we_re_not_the_evil_empire_but_we_re_divided_by_class_and_ruled_by_elites\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:58:51","slug":"we_re_not_the_evil_empire_but_we_re_divided_by_class_and_ruled_by_elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/12\/we_re_not_the_evil_empire_but_we_re_divided_by_class_and_ruled_by_elites\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Not the Evil Empire — But We\u2019re Divided by Class and Ruled by Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here is Emile in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday.  Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hey, Rush. Thanks so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yes, sir, you bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I just want to ask you: Do you think our government is becoming the evil empire that the Soviet Union government used to be?  If you think about it, all they do is lie.  I don\u2019t want to list off all the lies they make — they say — but every department is a lie.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, no.  To use the term specific “evil empire,” no, and I will explain why.  The Soviet Union was called the evil empire not because its leaders lied, but because they killed people.  The Soviet Union never let anybody out of the country.  If you tried to get out of the country, they killed you.  Most countries like ours, people want to get into. In the Soviet Union — all communist countries — they have to build a wall or build a moat to keep you in.<\/line><\/p>\n

Like in Cuba, the Soviet Union have political prisoners. They\u2019d put you in jail just for what you think if it violated the regime\u2019s beliefs and tenets. Like the video guy, like the guy that produced the video that did not have anything to do with Benghazi. They put him in jail, purely — and it was a show.  The guy hadn\u2019t done anything warranting being put in jail.  Anyway, what is happening, what you are actually referring to, I can trace back to Dr. Angelo Codevilla in his piece in the American Spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Ruling Classes vs. Country Class.”  I think even Peggy Noonan now has written a column about this in the Wall Street Journal, and what is happening here — and in this country it\u2019s relatively new.  In much of the world, it\u2019s the way things are every day.  In this country, it\u2019s relatively new, and you can find it in cronyism.  In the old days — and it wasn\u2019t that long ago — corporate leaders and business leaders, you never questioned their patriotic tendencies. <\/p>\n

You knew they were American, and they voted — and they did business with the government when they had a choice, and they ran their companies. Even if they were multinational, if they were headquartered here and they ran their companies here, no doubt they were American.  What\u2019s happening now is that our leaders — and I don\u2019t mean just the president; I\u2019m talking about a lot of the elected leaders, but people in the cabinet, people that are not elected, people in the various agencies.<\/p>\n

EPA, housing and urban development, you name it, they have nothing in common nor any interest with the vast majority of the people who live in the country.  They have a condescending view of most people.  It\u2019s very class-conscious now.  They are an elite, and they know it, and they only have interest in what other elites think, say, and do.  There is a greater divide between the people that lead the countries and the people who elect \u2019em, or who live in the country, than there has ever been. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s always been the case in socialist democracies. <\/p>\n

Angela Merkel is a great example.  To hell what the people of Germany want, she\u2019s gonna import 800,000 refugees from war-torn areas of the Middle East.  She doesn\u2019t care if they\u2019re ISIS; she doesn\u2019t care if they are sleeper cells waiting to erupt. She doesn\u2019t care.  She doesn\u2019t care what the body politic in Germany thinks; she knows better.  She\u2019s got her concerns.  She\u2019s got her cronies and their concerns, businesspeople, people that she relates to.  The same thing happening in the United States now.  Cronyism.<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s more pronounced in people in Big Business.  For example, I honestly, folks… I could be dead wrong about this.  It may be my hope speaking.  But I really believe with some acknowledged exceptions that most of the CEOs in this country are like most of the small business people, and in the normal run of events, wouldn\u2019t want anything to do with Obama.  That they realize Obama\u2019s poison.<\/p>\n

Because he believes Big Business, any kind of business, is suspect.  He doesn\u2019t like capitalism.  He doesn\u2019t like businesses and individuals that are independent of government and don\u2019t want any relationship with government.  And I think small business people understand that liberalism is not in any way helpful to them because liberalism looks at them as though they\u2019re the enemy.  And yet, today those people will put all that aside, if there\u2019s a chance to sidle up and get favorable treatment from Obama because of a close relationship or fundraising for him or what have you. <\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s what\u2019s different.  I don\u2019t know how… It\u2019s not brand-new.  It\u2019s evolved.  But it\u2019s never been more pronounced than it is during this particular presidency.  And it\u2019s only gonna get worse if Hillary Clinton becomes president, the distance between leaders and the governed.  But more than that, the attitude of leaders toward the governed to look down on us, to think that we\u2019re nincompoops, that we\u2019re incompetent, that we\u2019re incapable.  And, furthermore, that we\u2019re so dumb, we can\u2019t stop \u2019em anyway no matter how organized we get. <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Okay, folks, I want to expand on the point I was making right before the previous hour concluded, \u2019cause I checked the email, and a lot of people have told me that was a brilliant riff, you should do it again.  I\u2019m not gonna do it again, but I want to add some things to it, \u2019cause it really does — we had a call, “Are we becoming like the evil empire?” <\/p>\n

And I said, no, and I described the evil empire puts people in jail that don\u2019t agree with them.  We\u2019re not quite there yet other than the guy that did the video about Benghazi.  But that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening to us.  What\u2019s happening to us is exactly what Angelo Codevilla said was gonna happen to us, he said was already is happening to us, folks.  And I\u2019m gonna explain this in greater detail.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN:  And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Righto.  Open Line Friday, big final broadcast hour of the business broadcast week, and I am your highly trained broadcast specialist, although I didn\u2019t need a lot of training because I have innate talent on loan from God.  Telephone number is 800-282-2882.  Send an email, it\u2019s ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

The simplest way to explain this — and I don\u2019t want to use any names in the off chance that I\u2019m wrong about it, but it is my contention that all of these CEOs sidling up to Obama, I don\u2019t think very many of them actually agree with his policies.  I don\u2019t think we have a bunch of socialist, anti-capitalist CEOs.  We have a few, don\u2019t misunderstand.  But I think a lot of people — and this is what\u2019s different.  It used to be that no matter where you were in American life, wherever your walk of life took you, if you were a CEO, if you were an employee, if you\u2019re middle manager, you were loyal to that, but you were also loyal to the country. <\/line><\/p>\n

If you were a businessman, your business practices were, in part, based on your belief in your country.  And I think what\u2019s happened now since Obama — I think actually Bill Clinton started this.  And it may have been common, but I think Bill Clinton, by selling the Lincoln bedroom and virtually selling anything associated with his presidency to businesspeople, began this, and Obama has just expanded it now.  This is what cronyism is.  People who otherwise wouldn\u2019t vote for Obama and think Obama is rotten for the country, man, are eager to do business with him if it will further their own business prospects and damage their competitors\u2019. <\/p>\n

But in addition to that, what has happened is that there is the widest gulf between the elected and the people that govern us and the people who are governed.  There\u2019s always been, I think, a strain of people at the top of any chain thinking they\u2019re better than everybody else.  But there was always humility with that.  An acknowledgment, okay, I may be better, but they\u2019re still citizens and they\u2019re still my customers, or they\u2019re still my neighbors or what have you, in the sense that we\u2019re all in it together. <\/p>\n

But I think now there is an arrogant condescension among our nation\u2019s elites where they want no part of people not in their club.  How else do you explain this eagerness for unlimited illegal immigration?  How do you explain amnesty?  ‘Cause it makes no sense.  It makes no sense that you would literally erase your own country\u2019s borders in exchange for cheap labor, in exchange for future Democrat registered voters.  The pain that that\u2019s gonna cause average American citizens you don\u2019t care about anymore because it isn\u2019t gonna affect you. <\/p>\n

You live or operate or travel in circles where this influx of illegals, to use this example, you\u2019re never gonna see \u2019em unless you hire \u2019em.  You\u2019re not gonna have to put up with the rampant crime.  You\u2019re not gonna have to put up with people that can\u2019t speak English and having to deal with them.  You\u2019re not gonna encounter that.  And you don\u2019t want to encounter it, you don\u2019t want to.  You look as down on those people as you do anybody else that\u2019s beneath you.  You want \u2019em here \u2019cause it\u2019s cheaper labor for you or it\u2019s a way to win elections over Republicans.  But you don\u2019t want to be around \u2019em.  But you have the ability to avoid \u2019em. <\/p>\n

But we, everybody else don\u2019t.  You\u2019re opening the floodgates and these people are flooding cities, towns, neighborhoods.  They are being profoundly, negatively impacted by it.  You\u2019re not, if you\u2019re a member of the elite.  That\u2019s the only way it can be justified.  If these people were as affected by it as everybody else is, they wouldn\u2019t be for it.  But because they can get favors or invitations or whatever from the elite in power, fine.  And that\u2019s what\u2019s changing.  And it\u2019s not just here.  That\u2019s always been the case in the western social democracies, Western Europe. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s getting even worse there now.  It\u2019s almost, folks, like you heard of the old caste system that exists in India where you\u2019re born into whatever caste and you\u2019re there for the rest of your life.  You\u2019ll never get out of it.  Well, the American population\u2019s always been able to have upward mobility, based on all these great things about the American dream and American exceptionalism, you know, the old cliche about hard work, ambition.  They existed here.  It was real here. <\/line><\/p>\n

But now people are getting to positions of power and getting close to positions of power not because of any achievement, not because of any accomplishment, not because they\u2019ve innovated, just because they gave somebody enough money to get noticed or because they have agreed to support some leader and his nefarious policies.  But along with that has arisen this gap where the elites no longer even have any interest in what life is like for anybody else.  They just close their eyes to it and assume everybody was gonna be okay in the end.  But they are not inflicting any of the discomfort or pain, suffering, however you want to characterize it on themselves. <\/p>\n

Now, Angelo Codevilla mentioned exactly this in his great piece on the ruling class versus the country class<\/a>, and one of the many things he nailed was that the country class, meaning the vast majority of the people in the country, the non-elites don\u2019t even have a party.  They will no longer have a party to represent them.  And that is a result of this great divide. <\/p>\n

The elites are now comprised of people in both parties, and membership in the elite club, the establishment, trumps everything else.  Well, where are we here?  The Republican Party went through its process and found a nominee, and now that party, in large measure, wants nothing to do with that nominee, proving Codevilla\u2019s point. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s nomination and his candidacy is proving Codevilla\u2019s assertion in spades.  They don\u2019t like the nominee for whatever reason so they\u2019re not attending the convention, they\u2019re not gonna endorse, they\u2019re not gonna support, and, worse, they\u2019re gonna try to undermine their own party\u2019s nomination. <\/p>\n

And who are they blaming?  They\u2019re blaming people in the media, like me.  Yeah, it\u2019s my fault, or the fault of who knows whoever else in the media, Fox News, you pick \u2019em.  It\u2019s our fault that a real conservative didn\u2019t get the nomination. <\/p>\n

You know what these people don\u2019t understand?  They never have understood it, apparently.  I gaze out over my audience here, I don\u2019t actually see you, but I know you\u2019re there, I know who you are.  I have a deep, deep connection with you.  You all were gonna get excited and support Trump no matter what I said.  It\u2019s not a chicken-or-egg question here. <\/p>\n

If I had that kind of power, the Democrats would have never won an election in the last 28 years.  If I had that kind of power, a bunch of Republicans, they wouldn\u2019t have gotten away with getting as close as they got to amnesty.  I mean, it\u2019s absurd.  The way these establishment people look at you, I mean, this divide, you don\u2019t even have a mind of your own.  You\u2019re a wandering nomad, an empty vessel, a sponge, a mind-numbed robot waiting for somebody to tell you how to think and what to do.  And I have never looked at you that way.  The exact opposite, in fact. <\/p>\n

So Codevilla, I mean, he was so right about many of the things that he asserted.  And in the midst of this, what\u2019s frustrating about it is that it is true to say that Hillary Clinton is among the most vulnerable, the weakest candidacies that the Democrat Party has nominated in I don\u2019t know how long.  The Republicans want to talk about what a big boondoggle that happened in their party with Trump, but let me tell you something.  Hillary Clinton is a sitting duck. <\/line><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m a little frustrated at times that Trump doesn\u2019t go after her primarily on her areas of vulnerability like I think he should.  He could be pounding her on any number of things day in and day out.  But he is who he is and you deal with it as it happens.  I don\u2019t know what is out there that could have changed, but the underlying characteristics that have created all of these circumstances predate Trump.  The Republican Party is in the trouble that it\u2019s in because of the Republican Party before Trump even decided he wanted to be president.  <\/p>\n

So, no, we\u2019re not the evil empire in the sense that the Soviet Union was or in the sense that communist countries are.  But we are divided, and we are more divided than we\u2019ve ever been, along many different lines. We\u2019re divided on economic lines, the elite versus the non-elite.  The elite with wealth versus the non-wealthy.  We\u2019re divided racially more than we\u2019ve been since the Civil War.  This is my whole point! The vast majority of these the last years have been under the leadership of the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve had all of this time to implement their utopia.  And you listen to Hillary Clinton campaign and she\u2019s complaining about the same things that she was complaining about 30 years ago:  Health care, taxes, the rich, all this class envy stuff?  It\u2019s 30 years since she came on the scene! Hasn\u2019t she made one improvement?  She\u2019s had all the time. She been secretary of state. She\u2019s been first lady in charge of Hillarycare in the first go round.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s had every bit of chance, every ample opportunity to implement these great policies that she says are gonna give us a great country.  Obama, ditto.  Where is it?  Why do 70% of the people think we\u2019re headed in the wrong direction?  Because we are! Democrat policies don\u2019t work. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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