{"id":4928,"date":"2015-11-09T17:50:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:50:47","slug":"why_darkness_has_descended_on_america_explained_for_paul_krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/11\/09\/why_darkness_has_descended_on_america_explained_for_paul_krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Darkness Has Descended on America Explained for Paul Krugman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Right here in the New York Times, even today. Paul Krugman — who hates everything conservative, hates everything Republican, and despises personally Ronald Reagan — has a piece called, “Despair, American Style<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

“A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are ‘down on America,\u2019 and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with reality.” Do you see how devoid of reality this is? We have 94 million Americans not working<\/a>, and Krugman here writes of job growth at rates not seen since the nineties? <\/p>\n

Need I remind you of the news two weeks ago that half of the people who work in this country make less than $30,000 a year? When you read Krugman describe the US economy, do you see any evidence of it? I mean, when we have a roaring economy, and when there\u2019s job creation left and right and all kinds of growth, there\u2019s generally also a feeling of euphoria or happiness or well-being or contentment that propels it. It\u2019s not the Republicans who are the grumpy cats down on America; it\u2019s the Democrats, the college campuses, the professors. <\/p>\n

The anti-American sentiment is found exclusively on the left in this country. Pro-American sentiment, we own it. Pro-American sentiment — how great this country was, how great it is, how great the founding was — it\u2019s all us, folks. We\u2019re the only ones. We\u2019re the last ones left who believe it and who teach it. And to the extent that there\u2019s negativity, it\u2019s because of what\u2019s being done to it. By that I mean: The country. There\u2019s an all-out assault on the founding of this country, on the traditions, the institutions, whatever you want to describe — all of these great things that are under constant assault as unjust, immoral, unfair. <\/line><\/p>\n

We have done more to reciprocate for slavery and racism than any nation on earth, and if you didn\u2019t know any better you\u2019d think we hadn\u2019t done diddly-squat just by reading the news any given day. We have had affirmative action. We\u2019ve done quotas. We have turned this country upside down to be fair. We have engaged on the basis of sympathy. We\u2019ve engaged on the basis of, “We feel so sorry for you,” which is I think the crux of the civil rights movement to this day. We have the soft bigotry of low expectations of American minorities. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the left that owns the plantations of thinking. It\u2019s the left that assumes people can\u2019t do well on their own. It\u2019s people like Krugman and the people he props up and supports who believe that minorities and others are incapable of making the right decisions in life, and that\u2019s why we need big governments making decisions for people, because the people are not to be trusted. The people aren\u2019t smart enough, the people aren\u2019t worldly enough, the people aren\u2019t sophisticated enough. They\u2019re not gonna do the right thing. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Government has to it for them, under the guise of protecting them from themselves. The contempt for average, ordinary Americans\u2019 home is the Democrat Party of today and the American left. And yet here\u2019s Krugman writing about Republicans “down on America.” Who is it that runs around apologizing for America every chance he got? Barack Hussein O, last I looked. It\u2019s Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party, which every time they upturn a rock find something wrong with this country from the beginning days, from the get-go. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s they who have said they need to transform this country. So Krugman admits that there\u2019s despair out there. Here\u2019s his next paragraph: “Yet there is a darkness spreading over part of our society, and we don\u2019t know why.” And I\u2019m sure they don\u2019t. I\u2019m sure Krugman hadn\u2019t slightest idea. In his world, why, this is the greatest this country\u2019s ever been! We have first African-American president! Why, health care! He actually wants to write about how great Obamacare is and how well it\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s bankrupting people. It\u2019s closing businesses. It is reordering the way people live their lives. Obamacare may not even be able to survive on its own without a rewrite. We just had that story last week from a bunch of Democrats who think so. It\u2019s absolute disaster, as is most of the Obama administration. The reason why there is a “darkness” spreading over our society is because there is no push-back to any of this. The reason there is a darkness is because over half the country does not agree with what is happening to it, and always believed that the people they vote for, the Republican Party, would stand up and stop it — or at least try to. <\/p>\n

And there hasn\u2019t been much of that at all. That\u2019s why there is a darkness. That\u2019s why there is a despair, because the political system is letting people down. They have gone to the polls dutifully. They\u2019ve gone to the polls loyally. They have voted. They have done everything they can to stop what\u2019s happening here, thinking they are electing people who agree with them and are gonna stand up to Obama and say, “Stop! No more.” Instead, what happens? <\/p>\n

The people they elect end up helping Obama accomplish what he wants to accomplish to one degree or another or joining him if it happens to be something like immigration and amnesty. Our country is being overrun, just like Europe is being overrun. The American people know that it\u2019s not an accident and it\u2019s not something that cannot be stopped. It could be. There isn\u2019t a willingness to stop it. There is a darkness spreading over our society because the people who live in this country have figured out that what they want is not of any concern to people in Washington. <\/line><\/p>\n

Illegal immigrants\u2019 concerns are more important to people in Washington than they are in the desires and wants of the American people. There are so many things 180 degrees out of phase, I couldn\u2019t list them all if I started here for the remainder of this program. But Krugman\u2019s column indicates a giant disconnect. So now we take it to the campus. If we got such a roaring, great economy and everything\u2019s doing so well and Obama\u2019s done so well, why all this unrest on campus, Mr. Krugman? Why all this anger at Ferguson, Missouri?<\/p>\n

Why are these things going so off the rails if this country is so great and Obama\u2019s done such a great job that everybody\u2019s got a job and everybody\u2019s happy and we\u2019re roaring forward? Why this anger? And what\u2019s really puzzling about it is the people who are angry are the people who are winning. The people who are angry are those getting what they want. The University of Missouri president just quit.<\/a> You want to bet that there\u2019s not any newfound happiness this afternoon, tonight, or tomorrow on campus at the University of Missouri? <\/p>\n

You want to bet the unrest continues? <\/p>\n

You want to bet all kinds of agitation continues? <\/p>\n

You want to bet expressions of anger, unfairness and white privilege continue, even though the university president was gotten rid of? The people winning are the ones angry. The people winning are the ones unhappy. The people winning are the ones protesting, burning, tearing down. The people winning are unhappy because even when they win they don\u2019t get what they want, because what they want is not attainable. What they want\u2019s the elimination of opposition. This is all about getting rid of Republicans, getting rid of conservatives, eliminating them as a powerful opposition force — in any way — on campus at the ballot box, in Washington, you name it. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the driving forces here. <\/p>\n

But beyond that, the left gets what they want in Indiana. They get what they want with the legalization of marijuana. They get what they want with the legalization of gay marriage. Now we\u2019re on to transgender rights. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, whatever it is cultural overthrow they want they\u2019re getting, and with each victory they become angrier and more miserable. Why is that, I wonder? I don\u2019t know about you, when I win, I\u2019m happy. Haven\u2019t won much lately, so I don\u2019t know what it feels like lately, but I guarantee you this. When I do win, I do not get angrier, and I don\u2019t want to tear things down. And I don\u2019t want to destroy or ruin people when I win. They do. Figure that out. <\/line><\/p>\n

Why, it was just a few years ago that we heard Michael Sam was embraced by the entire campus and the entire city of Columbia, Missouri, because the people there were not racist, they were not homophobic. Why, they were advanced. They were culturally way ahead of the bitter clingers. Mizzou was a campus showing the way, the light of the way. Why, we had a gay football player. He won awards. He was gonna be drafted into the NFL and he was embraced and loved by what, in less than two years, has become a place of white privilege and dire racism and bigotry and sexism and homophobia. What happened in these two years? It\u2019s not just Mizzou, either, folks. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to this Paul Krugman piece, this is instructive, too. It\u2019s a good think piece. He goes on to describe some of the elements of the despair in the country and he talks about something, I\u2019ve mentioned this twice, did not get to the details of it, but there is an overabundance of death occurring in 49 to 54-year-old white people in America, not because of disease. They\u2019re dying. They\u2019re dying more rapidly than they ever have in that demographic and nobody can understand why. That\u2019s just the headline. There are many more details, but I don\u2019t want to get into them right now because of time constraints.<\/p>\n

Krugman references those deaths and says, “So what\u2019s going on?” In a recent interview some guy he talked to “suggested that middle-aged whites have ‘lost the narrative of their lives.\u2019 That is, their economic setbacks have hit hard because they expected better. Or to put it a bit differently, we\u00c2\u2019re looking at people who were raised to believe in the American Dream, and are coping badly with its failure to come true.” He\u2019s acknowledging that the American dream is not coming true for ever more and more people, and in the same column he\u2019s writing about how wonderful things are, how great things are. How there\u2019s so much health care. How there\u2019s so many new jobs. And yet the American dream isn\u2019t coming true and people are dying and gee. <\/p>\n

And here\u2019s his conclusion. “At this point you probably expect me to offer a solution. But while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble, I\u00c2\u2019m not sure whether they\u00c2\u2019re enough to cure existential despair.” Existential despair means existing despair over current-day circumstances. Look at this. Here you have the leading economist of the New York Times who actually thinks we have universal health care. We don\u2019t have universal health care. We have promised universal health care. We\u2019ve got sticker shock health care. We\u2019ve got health care that people had no idea was gonna cost this much and can\u2019t afford it. <\/line><\/p>\n

They can\u2019t afford the premiums. They sure as hell can\u2019t afford the deductibles. We\u2019ve got more people without health insurance than beforehand because they can\u2019t afford it, and the subsidies aren\u2019t there. The co-ops and the exchanges are beginning to fall apart. Aid to education. What do you mean? Have you taken a look at the endowments? Do you know how much the federal government spends on each Ivy League student? Fifty-four grand. The federal government is basically subsidizing the Ivy League. Everybody else is on their own, but even at that, aid to education, we\u2019re going bankrupt spending federal money on education. We\u2019re going bankrupt on this and he thinks it\u2019s not enough. <\/p>\n

Higher minimum wages? Is this guy really this big a fool? He really thinks these incremental, microscopic increases in the minimum wage are meaningful? So he\u2019s looking here at the Democrat agenda: Universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education. Why, that\u2019s utopia. Why is there anybody unhappy? Look at all the things we\u2019ve done for them. Universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education. Have you seen the job market, Mr. Krugman? Forget your 5% unemployment, 94 million Americans not working<\/a>. This is the most astounding disconnect. This man lists all the great achievements and then admits they\u2019re not enough to keep people who expected the American dream satisfied. I would hope to hell not because this is nowhere near the American dream. This isn\u2019t even the Cuban dream, this agenda. This is not even the ChiCom dream, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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