{"id":5826,"date":"2015-07-22T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:31:54","slug":"washington_post_poll_the_left_s_cultural_depravity_on_social_issues_isn_t_popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/07\/22\/washington_post_poll_the_left_s_cultural_depravity_on_social_issues_isn_t_popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Poll: The Left\u2019s Cultural Depravity on Social Issues Isn\u2019t Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is a story I found that just fits in almost precisely with a theme of mine in the past weeks on this program. <\/p>\n

And if you\u2019ve been listening steadily for the last couple of weeks or three or longer, you know that one of my focal points has been the status, the state of American culture, American society, and is it really as gone and lost as it appears, has it truly been corrupted with no moral guardrails restraining any aberrant behavior anymore? Is it just a free-for-all out there with no foundation of morality undergirding it? And, you know, it came up a number of times yesterday in the context of analyzing the reaction to Trump and Drive-Bys\u2019 surprise or lack of surprise depending on what the incidents are. <\/p>\n

But the best way to remind you is that whenever the media reports on something controversial, there\u2019s always this assumption that a majority of the American people also feel the same way. So if there\u2019s outrage say at Sarah Palin, the presumption is that whole country is outraged. If the gay Mafia attacks a pizza shop in Indiana, the presumption is that the entire country thinks that pizza shop should be shut down. And it\u2019s an image that is created by the media as they report these things. <\/p>\n

What it serves to do is dispirit and depress people into thinking that there aren\u2019t any ground rules anymore. There\u2019s no stopgap, there\u2019s no bottom, there\u2019s no floor to this perversion and wickedness. “It just happens, and the worst part of it is that most of the American people agree with it,” is the presumption, the assumption that is included with reporting. So here\u2019s a story in the Washington Post: “Americans Unhappy About the Left\u2019s Social Issue Wins.”<\/a> Washington Post, folks! “Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues. Most Americans aren\u2019t thrilled about it.”<\/p>\n

Now, this is a point that I have been making steadily and steadfastly for quite a while now, and it is what I\u2019ve been saying as well. As well as making the point, making the observation, I have offered the opinion that I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve reached the tipping point. I don\u2019t think a majority of Americans now support the kind of wickedness and perversion that\u2019s happening in our pop culture, all over it. <\/line><\/p>\n

I made a big deal about this yesterday and the day before. I just don\u2019t believe when the media reports these things with this expecting presumption that the majority of the country also agrees with it. That\u2019s true. Despite the media\u2019s claims to the contrary, according to the Washington Post here, it\u2019s actually the left that\u2019s pushing social issues. That\u2019s another point that I have made. <\/p>\n

By the way, did you hear what the Planned Parenthood reaction New York Times story<\/a>? They finally have said something about it. You know what it is? “Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood,” New York Times. Everybody\u2019s been waiting for the Times to erupt and check, see how the Times is going to report this, and everybody has been waiting for noted Democrat politicians to speak up about this. <\/p>\n

In fact, A.B. Stoddard of TheHill.com <\/a>and who appears on Fox, says if some Democrats don\u2019t speak up about this Planned Parenthood thing soon, they\u2019re gonna be in trouble. Thereby indicating again a vast majority of the American people do not come close to supporting what Planned Parenthood is doing here with their baby chop shop activities<\/a>, selling baby body parts harvested during abortions. That kind of cultural rot, that kind of depravity that is taking place. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve grown weary of even some friends of mine — Republican friends of mine, but even not friends — coming up and saying, seeing them say, “We\u2019ve got to stop talking about the social issues! The social issues are killing us. Gotta stay focused on the economy and taxes. We\u2019ve gotta drop this social issues. We\u2019re getting killed.” I\u2019ve always maintained, “It\u2019s not us. We\u2019re not pushing social issues. We get up every day, we see things that we believe in under assault, and we defend them, such as human life. <\/p>\n

Human life to me is more than a social issue. It\u2019s about sanctity. <\/p>\n

We get up… We are minding our own business, we get up, we see a record number of abortions taking place, and then we find out what Planned Parenthood is doing with their abortions and the aborted babies! If we get repulsed, and we talk about it, somehow we then get blamed for injecting social issues in the campaign. Well, this story in the Washington Post makes it clear, as I have opined, that it\u2019s actually the left pushing social issues and that conservatives are only being told to shut up about social issues so the left doesn\u2019t have any opposition. <\/line><\/p>\n

Exactly what I\u2019ve been saying. It\u2019s right here in this story that the left doesn\u2019t want to debate. They\u2019re not interested in hashing things out. They are oriented specifically toward eliminating opposition. In fact, many in the public don\u2019t even think there is an opposing view since they seldom hear it because the Republicans are so reluctant to speak up about social issues anymore. The irony is, the opposing views are usually embraced by a majority of the American public. All of that is in this little story in the Washington Post. <\/p>\n

The Washington Post even says at the bottom that many Democrats are unhappy with all of these social victories that the left is achieving. You know, which leads you to ask: Could it be that there are even some Democrats out there who don\u2019t want to see America fundamentally transformed? Anyway, that\u2019s another way of looking at it as well, but that story\u2019s there, and we\u2019ll spend some time with it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s some details from the Washington Post story on social issues. And, by the way, the authors of this piece, Peyton Craighill and Scott Clement. I\u2019m just gonna tell you some Washington Post. And they\u2019re reporting on the latest ABC News\/Washington Post poll. Liberals have won a string of victories on gay marriage and health care reform this year, but a new Washington Post\/ABC News poll finds a large majority of Americans are unhappy with where the nation is headed on social issues. Are you ready for this? Sixty-three percent of people say they are uncomfortable with the country\u2019s overall direction on social issues these days. Four in ten feel strongly uncomfortable about the nation\u2019s changes. <\/p>\n

Now, how many of you are surprised? Honestly, how many of you are surprised? Remember my point here, and I don\u2019t mind being redundant on this. As all of these things are reported — gay marriage, the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, every incidental little thing in the gay marriage story, such as what happened in Indiana with the installation there of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It\u2019s classic. It\u2019s classic. <\/p>\n

Leftist activists move in, because, remember, they don\u2019t want any opposition, either. When they win something, they\u2019re never happy, because there is lingering opposition. There\u2019s always opposition. That\u2019s why the left is never happy. They never win anything one hundred percent, and very rarely do they win things by virtue of legitimate democrat vote, folks. <\/line><\/p>\n

It takes activist judges and other similar things in order to inflict liberalism on our culture. It doesn\u2019t happen by virtue of the democrat process. And gay marriage hadn\u2019t yet happened by virtue of democrat process. Some people say it was on its way, but it hadn\u2019t yet. The Supreme Court took care of that. <\/p>\n

Same kind of thing with abortion — never voted on by the American people. But you take all these things — the Supreme Court decision, or the Indiana incident where there were three separate gay Mafia attacks on institutions, small businesses, what have you. The media reports all of those stories as though everybody agrees with the activists. The media reports all of these incidents as though there is very little opposition, and this is the new America, and this is just what everybody thinks. And so a lone, little pizza store owner, or a photography store owner, or a bakery get ramrod over by people, because everybody thinks that they\u2019re a bunch of hayseed, hick minority members, and they\u2019re old fogies, and it\u2019s time for everybody to get with it. When in fact it\u2019s the exact opposite. <\/p>\n

The vast majority of the American people do not agree with what the left\u2019s transformation of our culture is doing. They do not want it to happen. They do not support it. Sixty some odd percent in the Washington Post ABC news poll, with forty percent strongly opposing it. And, see, I believe the left knows this. I think the left knows they\u2019re a minority. I think the left knows that most of those things are a minority. They get what they want by bullying, silencing opposition. But even after they got it, they\u2019re never happy because of lingering opposition. And lingering opposition means that whatever gain they\u2019ve just made is still vulnerable. And I think deep down the left knows that their opposition is actually a sleeping giant and if that sleeping giant ever gets mad enough and ever wakes up, then all of this that they have gained is tenuous. <\/p>\n

Now, the Supreme Court can\u2019t do anything about that. That\u2019s why they\u2019re so eager to get it. There\u2019s even a story I had yesterday or the day before — massive disagreement with the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. There\u2019s not massive support for that position. There\u2019s massive opposition to it. <\/line><\/p>\n

So my point is, be of good cheer here on some level, because we\u2019re not being ramrodded — well, we are. We\u2019re being bullied, but it\u2019s by virtue of a minority and their tactics. The country has not been lost yet. We\u2019ve not gone over the cliff, or the tipping point, however you want to describe it. And this Washington Post poll goes even further and points out that a significant number of Democrats are uncomfortable with where all this is headed. Sixty-three percent of people say they are uncomfortable with the country\u2019s overall direction on social issues these days. <\/p>\n

The downbeat results in the aftermath of a series of landmark Supreme Court rulings earlier this summer runs parallel to how people see the nation\u2019s overall direction. Sixty-five percent say it\u2019s on the wrong track, almost the same exact percentage that say they don\u2019t like the direction of the culture. Americans who see themselves on the losing side of these high profile debates are most negative about the nation\u2019s direction on social issues. <\/p>\n

See, my contention is that the social issues are a giant winning opportunity. And the left has been artful once again at convincing Republicans, RINOs, moderates, establishment types that they are losing because of social issues. And specifically, they are losing because of abortion. Yeah, they\u2019re losing the Latino vote because of amnesty, and they oppose that. And they\u2019re losing the women\u2019s vote because they\u2019re not feminists, they don\u2019t support feminism, and they are not pro-choice. It\u2019s just the opposite. <\/p>\n

There is a golden opportunity, particularly as expressed in this polling data, for somebody who knows how to do it, to turn these social issues into a huge opportunity for victory, just like massive opposition to Obamacare. It was just waiting for the Republican Party to come along and coalesce with it, and it never happened, frustratingly never.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to stick just a little bit more on the social issues business. I think it\u2019s important, folks. We\u2019ll get to the latest Trump, don\u2019t sweat it. And Ted Cruz making mincemeat out of the ICE director at a Senate hearing yesterday. It\u2019s great. We\u2019re gonna get to all of these things. Just hang in there and be tough. <\/p>\n

Now, look at the Planned Parenthood story, for example. The clearest evidence of where this country is on social issues is right in front of our eyes. Now, based on this Washington Post\/ABC News poll, a long-held belief of mine is confirmed, and that is that social issues, done the right way, are a big winning issue for Republicans, conservatives, whatever. It\u2019s the Democrats who are vulnerable on it and I believe always have been. <\/p>\n

Now, I realize some of you establishment Republicans and some of you RINOs in the audience literally think I\u2019m crazy. I assure you I have a better handle on this than you do. You\u2019re coming at it from a position of defensiveness and fear. You talk to your friends who agree with you on gun control and on social issues, abortion and so forth, and you are not representative, just like the Democrats are not, you\u2019re not a representative of a majority thinking in this country. You may be among the richest, but you are not among the majority of thought in this country. <\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood\u2019s a classic illustration, what we\u2019ve learned this week about the butchery that goes on in Planned Parenthood. Where are all the Democrats standing up applauding it. Where are all the Democrats on TV telling us that we better get with it and understand what this really is, that this is a great cultural advance for America, that this is gonna lead to the discovery of who knows how many diseases, who knows how much life will be prolonged because of the great work of Planned Parenthood. Where are the Democrats standing up telling us this? Where are the Democrats standing up defending Planned Parenthood? <\/p>\n