{"id":255710,"date":"2017-11-22T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=255710"},"modified":"2017-11-27T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:39:24","slug":"ny-times-says-charles-manson-inspired-conservatism-tears-apart-capitalism-for-destroying-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/22\/ny-times-says-charles-manson-inspired-conservatism-tears-apart-capitalism-for-destroying-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Says Charles Manson Inspired Conservatism, Tears Apart Capitalism for Destroying the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The New York Times, you know, the New York Times is a Bible to the American left. It\u2019s a Bible to the journalism community. It\u2019s a Bible to young Millennial journalists. And the New York Times has published two stories recently which, you know, I know who the Times is. I know what they do. I know they\u2019re radical leftists. I know they\u2019re not any longer mainstream leftists. There are two stories here, two columns, two op-eds, and one of them, I really don\u2019t know how this one passed muster.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-218137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushStack-Newspaper-Reading-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushStack-Newspaper-Reading-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushStack-Newspaper-Reading.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/20\/opinion\/charles-manson-counterculture.html\">column from an educated individual claiming that Charles Manson<\/a> is the intellectual energy and creator behind the modern conservative movement. Charles Manson was the godfather of Ronald Reagan. Charles Manson was the inspiration for modern-day conservatism. You know why? Because what Manson was really doing back in 1969 when he started killing rich white people was to inspire &#8212; he wanted to create a race war, because Charles Manson didn\u2019t like African-Americans. He was a racist, they say, and that is the linkage. And the New York Times publishes an op-ed from a fool making this point.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the problem is that the New York Times readership is a bunch of sponges and they\u2019re gonna soak this up, and they\u2019re gonna be running around thinking that they\u2019re now enlightened and they\u2019ve learned something. And then there was another piece that ran this week claiming &#8212; this is not a new thought. This one does not surprise me they would run. But we\u2019re gonna dissect both of these.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism is the threat to the world and must be replaced. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/20\/opinion\/climate-capitalism-crisis.html\">Capitalism is the reason everything in the world is wrong is wrong<\/a>, everything that\u2019s bad is bad because of capitalism. And the column makes the point that capitalism is exclusively why we are losing the planet to climate change and the only solution to saving the planet is to eliminate capitalism and immediately swerve to Democrat socialism, democratic socialism.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m gonna be taking yet another opportunity today to explain why socialism always ends up as dictatorship, why socialism always ends up being communism, why socialism ends up with people living in tyranny despite the dreams and the desires of the democratic socialists to create a utopia. There\u2019s a very simple reason why socialism ends up as a tyranny. There\u2019s a reason why socialism ends up having to build walls around countries to keep people in. It\u2019s a very simple explanation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-242971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RushCapitalism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RushCapitalism.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RushCapitalism-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>I\u2019ll just give you a hint. With socialism, the only opportunity to acquire any kind of power and any kind of wealth is in the government. Because under democratic socialism everybody else is, quote, unquote, equal. And in the case of socialism, it\u2019s equally miserable. Nothing is allowed, no differences, no wealth, no prosperity is allowed in the general population under socialism. Somehow that equals utopia.<\/p>\n<p>But human nature is human nature. Human beings want wealth, they want better lifestyles, and human nature has an undeniable character of people pursuing power. And under socialism the only place anybody can go to acquire wealth and power is the government. And once you get there and you start utilizing the government to enrich yourself and to empower yourself, well, that\u2019s when you start doing mean and bad things to everybody else in the general population.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why there is no socialist utopia. It is why there never has been. It\u2019s why there never will be, I don\u2019t care what the dreams and desires are, but yet here\u2019s the New York Times with yet another op-ed in a period of time I don\u2019t know how many op-eds like this they have run: the problem in the world is capitalism. The problem with climate change is capitalism. The problem with illegal immigration is capitalism. Whatever the problem, capitalism is the root of all evil and must be eradicated.<\/p>\n<p>But this piece crediting Charles Manson for being the intellectual inspiration and motivation for modern-day conservatism, how does that pass the editorial board, the op-ed page at the New York Times? It\u2019s because number wants that story to run. And the reason they would want that story to run is because they are obsessed and consumed by sheer, utter hatred.<\/p>\n<p>The American left today and the Democratic Party is the largest hate group in America. And as you look out over the news today, as I just did, and you see nothing but a cesspool and you give thanks that you\u2019re not in it. The rage and the and the anger, the discontent, the absence of happiness are all are characteristics of modern-day liberals.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now the New York Times piece on capitalism as the threat to the world and it must be replaced. This is by somebody named Benjamin Fong. He\u2019s a professor at Arizona State University. He says capitalism is the problem and environmentalism is the movement that can supersede it. Proving a point that I\u2019ve always made, that modern-day environmentalism is simply the new home of communism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-242976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/650-080217-Capitalism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/650-080217-Capitalism.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/650-080217-Capitalism-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>When the state sponsored communism of the Soviet Union imploded, there was a bunch of homelessness, if you will, among worldwide communists who loved and adored the Soviet Union, and environmentalism is right out of the pages of socialism and communism, and so environmentalism became the new home. It became the place for abandoned communists to go in order to have some relevance. And this prove it. Mr. Fong here unwittingly proves my point. Capitalism is the problem. Environmentalism is the movement that can supersede it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the movement that\u2019s opposed to capitalism is communism, so there\u2019s his admission. But here\u2019s some of what he says in this piece. &#8220;The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s the old argument, this guy\u2019s got something up his craw, he\u2019s very upset that everybody out there producing and creating and moving and distributing is doing it for profit. And that makes it evil, and that makes it bad, and that makes it horrible, and that makes it unequal. That makes it unfair. Instead, all of these producers and distributors and manufacturers should be doing it for one reason only: sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Did I not tell you? Sustainability is the keyword today in attracting Millennials and other unsuspecting young people. Sustainable energy, sustainable income, sustainable health care, sustainable what. So this guy is saying that the real culprit of the climate crisis is the pursuit of profit rather than the pursuit of sustainability. So everybody involved ought to just produce no more than what everybody needs and you should pay no more than what it costs, and the producer should make no more than what it costs. And so there would be essentially no cost to anything.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sustainability-Kids-Earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sustainability-Kids-Earth.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sustainability-Kids-Earth-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>Everything\u2019s free! If you pay the producer exactly what it costs him to produce it and you throw in the price of what it takes to distribute it, if there\u2019s no profit, why, then, it\u2019s wonderful, and it\u2019s never ending. It\u2019s totally sustainable. Because there will not be any overproduction, there will not be any mining of minerals that will destroy the earth, there will not be any excesses of anything because we\u2019ll only need what we need and we\u2019ll only produce what we need and we\u2019ll only use what we need. If nobody makes any money, then it\u2019s a panacea.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if nobody makes any money then what\u2019s the motivation for this? What is the impetus? Why would anybody do it? And where does the original seed cost come from? I mean, if you\u2019re gonna produce product X, somebody\u2019s gonna have to make the investment in what\u2019s necessary to produce it or manufacture it. If you don\u2019t get paid until somebody buys it, and what guarantee is somebody gonna buy it? How do you know how much to produce, and then how much do you know to buy so that everything zeros out? It\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n<p>But if you take profit out of it, you take motive, you take purpose, you take inspiration, you have no production to speak of. You\u2019ll have no distribution. Why do it? People are gonna be working under the table in the black market trying to do things to make money. Human nature.<\/p>\n<p>So this clown, this Fong guy says, &#8221; So long as this order is in place,&#8221; the pursuit of profit instead of sustainability, &#8220;the crisis will continue and, given its progressive nature, worsen. This is a hard fact to confront. But averting our eyes from a seemingly intractable problem does not make it any less a problem. It should be stated plainly: It\u2019s capitalism that is at fault,&#8221; in destroying the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more, but please don\u2019t ever forget this. Whenever you hear of any new proposal from the environmentalist wackos, United Nations, understand what it is. It is an attack on capitalism. And that means it is an attack on the United States. And that means it\u2019s an attack on all of us.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/boom-christmas-bonuses-to-jump-66-to-1797\/article\/2641472\">Christmas Bonuses to Jump 66%, to $1,797.<\/a>&#8221; People who work will have, on average, an extra $716 to spend for Christmas. This is the latest sign of a booming economy. Paul Bedard has it at the Washington Examiner. &#8220;Human resources officers from some 500 corporations anticipate a massive 66% increase in cash Christmas bonuses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s happened here is that some survey firms have called various business. &#8220;You planning on bonusing your employees?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much?&#8221; And they give them the figure, and so the figure is averaged, and that\u2019s where the $1,797 comes from. Not saying that you are automatically gonna get a bonus. This is an average based on companies that have been talked to and 500 corporations anticipating this increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thirty-nine percent of companies plan to give employees other perks throughout the year instead of a bonus.&#8221; When was the last time you saw a story like this? When was the last time we saw a story on the economy booming, unemployment coming down, wages increasing, and bonuses? Do you remember any kind of stories like this during, say, the eight years of Obama? I, frankly, don\u2019t. There weren\u2019t any stories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ObamaEconomy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ObamaEconomy-2.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ObamaEconomy-2-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>During the eight years of Obama, we were told that there\u2019s a new normal, that we had seen our salad days. That we\u2019ve peaked and that now the new objective was to manage the new America, a more realistic America, an America not as prosperous and therefore not as injurious to other nations in the world. We were told to manage the decline or we were told that the decline was being managed and that was the purpose of Obama and his administration. And you could chalk this up to all the other economic news now showing on the plus side.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a reason for it and it\u2019s Donald Trump and the stock market going nuts. The reason for it is Donald Trump. Donald Trump\u2019s an optimist. And if anybody would have a right not to be an optimist, it\u2019s Trump. If anybody had a right to be depressed and ticked off and angry and seething and plotting revenge each and every day, it would be Trump. He has been relentlessly assaulted, attacked, you name it, for over two years, two and a half years, and consistently every day with lies and distortions.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the entire apparatus of the Washington establishment has been mobilized for two years, and yet despite that, Trump remains optimistic and smiling, and he continues to fight back against these people to the point now where wages, increases, Christmas bonuses, economic growth 3% or more is routinely talked about. So in that context I guess it doesn\u2019t surprise me the New York Times would be goaded here to running pieces trying to destroy the concept of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m gonna read this paragraph to you again and ask you a question, especially for you Millennials out there. The day before Thanksgiving, as always on this program, has sort of evolved into a day of lessons, historical remembrances, teaching, if you will. Now, I realize that there are many people, it\u2019s the fastest growing audience in American talk radio, and it\u2019s the largest, and there are people tuning in new every day. And we\u2019re the getting it from all demographics, all walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is the one program in America, if you are outside the 18-49 demographic, we love you. Do you realize that in most of media, once you\u2019re past the 18-49 demo, once you hit 50 or older, nobody cares about you. Advertisers don\u2019t care about you, nobody cares about you, because there\u2019s nothing they can sell you. You\u2019ve already had your mind made up on pretty much everything you buy. Everybody associates youth with opportunity and potential and so forth. The 18-49 demographic, after you surpass that, no matter where you are, nobody cares about you. But not true here. We think there are teachable moments for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>So let me read this graph again. &#8220;The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for sustainability.&#8221; Now, how many of you think it\u2019s possible to produce only what we need, that doesn\u2019t cost anybody anything, and that the producers don\u2019t make any money? How many of you think that\u2019s possible? How many think that\u2019s desirable?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SocialismAlways-Fails-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>I think young people think that\u2019s really cool! That\u2019s the essence of sustainability, that\u2019s really cool. Okay, now answer me this. What are you gonna live on? Let\u2019s say you produce widgets, and you have to produce two million a year because that\u2019s how many are needed. So you produce the widgets and then you sell them for exactly what it costs you to make them. Which is fair, right? You\u2019re not earning any profit. You\u2019re being really nice, being fair and you\u2019re really caring.<\/p>\n<p>How are you gonna hire employees? What you are gonna pay \u2019em with? And where do you get the money required to manufacture the widgets if everything zeros out? Let me ask you this. You go to the butcher &#8212; butcher is an example here because Adam Smith used it in his book. When you go to the butcher and you\u2019ve got an array of choices in front of you, &#8220;Wow. This is really cool. This is a great butcher.&#8221; You think that butcher has put that array of things there for you?<\/p>\n<p>No. The butcher\u2019s in business for himself. The butcher is trying to sell you things that he thinks you want and things that you need, and he\u2019s trying to sell the best quality he can for a competitive price, but he\u2019s doing this for himself. This is called selfishness by people that don\u2019t understand it, self-interest by those who do. The butcher is not trying to make sure you eat every day. The butcher is not trying to make sure you have healthy food front of you. The butcher is trying to support himself.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about it is that you benefit, too, in the process because if the butcher weren\u2019t doing that what would you have to do? You\u2019d have to head out to the wilderness and find a steer and you\u2019d have to kill it and you\u2019d have to dress it and prepare it and you\u2019d have to do everything the butcher does for you. The butcher saves you a lot of time, the butcher saves you a lot of trouble and you are willing to pay for that. And the butcher makes a little profit so that he can buy some of his own stuff for his own family. And bare essence is the theory.<\/p>\n<p>But if there\u2019s no profit anywhere, if nobody makes any money as a result of what they do, let\u2019s say you\u2019re an employee and your business makes widgets, and your business sells two million widgets, what do you get paid, and on what basis? Do you get paid only enough to where the employer doesn\u2019t have to lose money paying you to make the widgets? When everything zeros out, you don\u2019t have sustainability. You have nothing. Because there\u2019s no reason for anybody to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, there is, Mr. Limbaugh. For the good of the community.&#8221; Oh, really? Everybody in a community is gonna do what they\u2019re doing now and they\u2019re gonna sell what they sell now, they\u2019re gonna make what they make now, they\u2019re gonna produce what they produce now for no money, you\u2019re gonna buy it for no more than what it costs, and everybody\u2019s gonna be just hunky-dory happy at the end of every day when all of this commerce is gone?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s right. You\u2019ve got it, Mr. Limbaugh. That\u2019s exactly right.&#8221; Well, then what do you buy your house with or your apartment or your car, what do you buy that with? If there isn\u2019t profit, if there is isn\u2019t a pool of money for people to chase, there\u2019s not gonna be a reason anything gets produced. What they want you to believe about capitalism is that everybody that\u2019s in it is a selfishness rip off artist and all they\u2019re doing is overcharging you and selling you a bunch of inferior garbage. They\u2019re tricking you. They\u2019re lying to you and they\u2019re getting rich off of you and they got piles of money in the back room that you never see because they don\u2019t share it with anybody. They\u2019re evil, and the bigger the business, the worse it is.<\/p>\n<p>If you doubt me, just listen to the Democrat Party and its enemies list of corporations, and it\u2019s practically every one. It\u2019s a nice sounding thing, sustainability, just produce things for what they cost and sell them for exactly what they cost and it\u2019s just a beautiful thing and then everything would be more affordable. But it wouldn\u2019t. There would be scarcity like you can\u2019t imagine. There would be people killing people to get things to eat. There would be people doing horrible things to one another in order to get food, shelter, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Mr. Limbaugh, the government would provide all that.&#8221; With what? Where does the government get its money? &#8220;Well, the government has all the money.&#8221; No. The government doesn\u2019t. The government doesn\u2019t have a dime until it takes it from you. The government might sell weapons to Saudi Arabia for a profit. Ah, ah, can\u2019t do it for a profit, we have to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia for no more than what they cost us to make. Forgot that. There can\u2019t be any profit because if there\u2019s profit apparently there isn\u2019t any sustainability. Horrible.<\/p>\n<p>Next paragraph from this clown, Benjamin Fong. &#8220;The hope that we can empower intelligent people to positions where they can design the perfect set of regulations, or that we can rely on scientists to take the carbon out of the atmosphere and engineer sources of renewable energy, serves to cover over the simple fact that the work of saving the planet is political, not technical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a much better chance of making it past the 22nd century if environmental regulations are designed by a team of people with no formal education in a democratic socialist society than we do if they are made by a team of the most esteemed scientific luminaries in a capitalist society. The intelligence of the brightest people around is no match for the rampant stupidity of capitalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of a convoluted paragraph, but what the guy is saying is that there is no technical solution to climate change. It\u2019s political. And that means socialist, and that means progressive and liberal. We have to keep the capitalists, the technical people out of it, because all they\u2019re gonna care about is making a profit. This is so, so stupid. The United States is one of the least polluted places on the earth, and it is precisely the profit motive that has made that possible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m a little long. I have to take a quick time-out. But you get the drift. See, the left is in panic city here. We had eight years of Obama, and the eight years of Obama was supposed to produce a utopia, at least a panacea. We\u2019re supposed to be on the road here to people being happier and more fulfilled; and there was gonna be more equality, no racism. There wasn\u2019t gonna be any sexism, no sexual harassment, no rape, no bigotry, and it all exploded and there was worse incidents of that stuff during those eight years. And we\u2019re only learning about it now.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t learn about it during the Obama years. We\u2019re learning about all these excesses now. There wasn\u2019t any economic growth, there wasn\u2019t any prosperity, there wasn\u2019t any advancing prosperity. The left knows in their hearts &#8212; they may not have the guts to admit it &#8212; but they know what they believe in doesn\u2019t work. They get angry. They lash out. They\u2019ve been lashing out here, well, all of our lives, but intensely for the last two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: New York Times op-ed: &#8220;Charles Manson Was A Far Right Wing Ideologue &#8212; The New York Times published an op-ed Tuesday suggesting that Charles Manson was the harbinger for alt-right and white supremacists. Manson\u2019s mission to cajole a slew of hippies to go on a murdering spree in 1969 to kickstart a race war paved the way for today\u2019s alt-right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This piece is written by somebody named Baynard Woods. Now, this clown lives in Baltimore. He\u2019s the senior editor of something there called the City Paper. He looks like a Pajama Boy in a fedora. There\u2019s a picture of him here. He has a PhD in ancient philosophy. He writes librettos for rhymes with opera, and he preaches with the rock &#8216;n\u2019 roll band The Barnyard Sharks. He\u2019s the author of some wacko books and so forth. But he\u2019s basically just an academic in Baltimore, and he claims that it is Manson, because what Manson\u2019s original purpose was to kick off a race war.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-255758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manson-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manson-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manson.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Manson supposedly didn\u2019t like blacks so he thought that he could kick off a race war by murdering rich white people in the Hollywood area and somehow making it look like blacks did it and kick off a race war. And Manson is credited by this guy for ideologically energizing the John Birch Society. He believes that Manson was not so much the end of the hippie generation as much as he was the start of modern right-wing conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>And this gets published in the New York Times. I know it\u2019s an op-ed, but somebody in the op-ed page, the editor there, has to look at this and pass muster on it. Charles Manson, who served a life sentence &#8212; he would have been put to death except the state of California got rid of the death penalty right around the time he was being sentenced. He was a lunatic, certifiably insane. Yet the left was fascinated with this guy.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody was fascinated with Manson, it was the left. The left are the ones that made movies about the guy. The left are the ones that wrote books about the guy, Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi. These guys are famous left-wing radicals or Democrats, mainstream Democrats that are fascinated with this guy. Why would he do it? Who made him tick? What was it about Manson? It was almost like a romantic notion they had with this guy. TV journalists of the era reveled in the fact that they once interviewed Manson. Even the police department, the LAPD back then had elements of the department that were almost groupie-like toward Manson, before all of the violence began.<\/p>\n<p>Before the violence began he was just a well-known ragtag sponge. The guy sponged off everybody. He had a Svengali effect, particularly on young women. Do you remember the name &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme? What did &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme do? Where? It was in San Francisco. Lynette &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme was one of Charles Manson\u2019s acolytes, lived in the commune. They were just a bunch of filthy human debris, folks, and yet the left is fascinated by this guy.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve written books about him. They\u2019ve done movies about him. To us he\u2019s just full-fledged human debris and not worthy of another moment\u2019s notice. The left has kept this guy alive. Every parole hearing, the Drive-Bys would get together and wonder if there\u2019s any way Manson could somehow being released. There was a morbid fascination with this guy.<\/p>\n<p>They come along now in the New York Times and claim that this guy is the reason why I think what I think and that you think what you think. And this guy, Charles Manson, was the harbinger of modern-day conservatism? Why? Because this lunatic, Baynard whatever his name is, thinks that modern-day conservatism is nothing more than racism, that modern-day conservatives are the modern day equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan, forgetting that the Klan was the military wing of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, we\u2019re playing for keeps here is the point. The New York Times is a Bible. There are lots of young people reading this, seeing this. It\u2019s gonna be amplified. Lots of people reading this garbage, and they\u2019re gonna believe it. 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