{"id":384464,"date":"2021-03-03T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=384464"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:22:32","slug":"democrats-use-identity-politics-as-a-distraction-from-their-disastrous-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/03\/democrats-use-identity-politics-as-a-distraction-from-their-disastrous-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Told Us: Dems Use Identity Politics to Distract from Disastrous Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JASON: I\u2019m remembering Rush and asking the burning question: What do Dr. Seuss and Neera Tanden have in common? Well, after yesterday, they\u2019re both looking for work. I&#8230; (laughing) I just had to squeeze that in. I\u2019m telling you, I debated Neera Tanden on a network known for its, shall we say, mendacity, and she is a vicious political partisan.<\/p>\n<p>I guess those thousand tweets that she deleted (chuckles) just weren\u2019t quite enough. I don\u2019t know what it is about liberals and deleting tweets. (laughing) You ever notice that? They could find any conservative tweet going back decades. But Neera got rid of a thousand. It still didn\u2019t do the trick for the OMB nominee. She is toast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-384468\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030321-Big-Voice-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030321-Big-Voice-M.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030321-Big-Voice-M-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030321-Big-Voice-M-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons they\u2019re going after Dr. Seuss and To Kill a Mockingbird and Shakespeare and every aspect of Western tradition is it\u2019s gaslighting. It\u2019s not&#8230; It\u2019s not erasing history. It\u2019s rewriting history. And if you do that, and you keep the country preoccupied with tribalism and division and identity politics, you don\u2019t have to really have a debate over how crummy your health care\u2019s become, even though your premiums have tripled under Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to worry about COVID lockdowns for schoolchildren in a mental health crisis when they have absolutely &#8212; nearly, I should say &#8212; zero&#8230; Oh, what the hell. I\u2019ll say absolutely zero chance of really serious illness. You don\u2019t have to talk about how the teachers\u2019 unions own the Democrat Party. Education in Minnesota, where I live &#8212; and across the country, the NEA.<\/p>\n<p>And they are holding our children hostage for their own rank benefit. You just talk about Dr. Seuss, and you talk about it ad infinitum. Rush talked about this not long ago. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m not in the political consultant business, and I\u2019m not in the business of running elections. There are professionals that do that. But like everybody else I have my thoughts and opinions on it. But I\u2019ve always believed that people are human beings, and we have some things in common, and finding them and appealing to them as human beings rather than as victims or members of a group is, in the long run, gonna be far more meaningful and productive than taking your policy manual and slicing it up into a bunch of different things that may not have anything in common, but you are out appealing to this group that you\u2019re weak in.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re having trouble with women, so you come up with things to say to women to get them to support you and all that. I just think it\u2019s a losing proposition, and it has been, until Trump has come along, and Trump didn\u2019t do any of that. Trump spoke to people as people, and he spoke to people where they live and how they live and the reasons why, and it didn\u2019t matter what their race was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-382110\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-zz-app-RUSH-BW-EIB-Network-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-zz-app-RUSH-BW-EIB-Network-11.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-zz-app-RUSH-BW-EIB-Network-11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-zz-app-RUSH-BW-EIB-Network-11-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It didn\u2019t matter what their sex or sexual orientation was. And, as such, the whole demographic thing didn\u2019t matter. But to the Republican establishment&#8230; It\u2019s Democrats, too. To the consultant class, the establishment class, it\u2019s all about groups and the way you tailor messages for groups of people rather than having an overarching message for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>JASON: That is just so true, and that is the consultancy class. They look at how this is gonna play amongst Hispanics, amongst the gay population, amongst blacks, amongst women. They don\u2019t look at individuals and Americans, and the reason the radical left is doing this is that if they can keep the country preoccupied over how miserable the dominant culture really is&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Why, they don\u2019t have to address these other issues in which they demonstrably fail. That\u2019s really it, in a nutshell, and it is the most cynical, the most divisive strategy I\u2019ve ever seen in my lifetime. And the media and corporate America and the nonprofits and K through 12 and higher ed are all in on the scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JASON: You just talk about Dr. Seuss, and you talk about it ad infinitum. 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