{"id":6084,"date":"2015-06-22T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-22T18:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:21:57","slug":"is_america_s_leftward_lurch_permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/06\/22\/is_america_s_leftward_lurch_permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America\u2019s Leftward Lurch Permanent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/66584\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It is stunning what is happening to the Democrat Party! There is no Democrat Party of JFK or LBJ anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There is no Democrat Party of the old warhorse Robert Strauss. The Democrat Party today is Bernie Sanders! Do you know Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger crowds than Hillary Clinton? Bernie Sanders has got more excitement in Hollywood than Hillary Clinton has ever had! Bernie Sanders is getting standing ovations in Colorado. I\u2019m telling you, the Democrat Party is no longer what you often associate with the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party has gone full-on &#8212; call it what you want &#8212; socialist, Marxist.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>The number of average, run-of-the-mill, day-to-day Democrats &#8212; the faceless, anonymous Americans that say they\u2019re Democrats &#8212; identifying as uber-left liberals is skyrocketing. And it\u2019s causing lots of people to ask, &#8220;How did it happen? When did it begin? What is responsible for it?&#8221; <\/line><BR\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/voters-reclaim-the-liberal-label\/2015\/06\/19\/feeca592-168e-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html\"><img id=\"eZObject_107222\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wash-Post-Liberalism.jpg\"\/><\/a>Because there are answers to those questions. I myself am profoundly interested in those questions, because as the country&#8230; It\u2019s stunning to me. The country\u2019s in bad shape; the country\u2019s trending in worse shape.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>We have stories I held over from last week. Millennials don\u2019t trust anyone. Millennials have no faith in anyone. Americans at large have no confidence in their government, no competence in their economy. Why in the world would you move in a direction that is causing this? Why in the world, in the midst of this despair, would you move in a direction that\u2019s gonna guarantee more of it? Now, to me, the answers are psychological, and I\u2019m not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist or any other kind of emotional or mental expert.<\/p>\n<p>But nevertheless, the subject fascinates me.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Milbank even writes about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/voters-reclaim-the-liberal-label\/2015\/06\/19\/feeca592-168e-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html\">in the Washington Post today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s as happy as he can be that &#8220;liberal&#8221; is no longer an epithet, that &#8220;liberal&#8221; is no longer a dirty word. It used to be, as recently as 1988. Milbank mentions this. In 1988, what did in The Loser (that would be Michael Dukakis) was the fact that he was a liberal stuck to him. Just the label &#8220;liberal&#8221; was enough to secure your defeat. This is why liberals have always sought to call themselves different things &#8212; progressives, moderates, independents &#8212; because &#8220;liberal&#8221; was the death knell at election time.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_107226\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/danamilbank.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Now they\u2019re happily calling themselves liberals, and Milbank mentions three theories why. And I don\u2019t have his story right in front of me. Then he adds his own, I think, at the end. No it\u2019s the third theory which he really signs on to. The third theory is that this country is moving so far to the left so fast because of the rise of the Tea Party. I read that, and I said, &#8220;Are you kidding me? The rise of the Tea Party is what you\u2019re saying is awakening people? What in the world does the Tea Party do to scare people?&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I can think of is the idea that you must take care of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>That must scare so many people so fast&#8230; (interruption) No, don\u2019t laugh in there, Snerdley. I know I\u2019m a naturally funny guy. I know that when I open my mouth, the tendency is to laugh here, but I\u2019m being dead serious. I think the idea of self-reliance scares the hell out of a lot of people, and the idea of self-responsibility? Oh, they don\u2019t trust themselves and they don\u2019t trust the system, and so they rather give themselves over to whatever else.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been through all this, how attractive it is, all the different&#8230; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>Well, no, no.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Party is obliterated from day to day if that fits the narrative of the day, but the Tea Party is always, even if it goes extinct, the Tea Party is always going to remain as an object lesson, just like Reagan will always be an object lesson. Oh, that\u2019s one of the theories. One of the theories to explain why the country is going left is it always was. Reagan came along and was so sneaky and so good that he fooled a lot of people for eight years. But now that Reagan\u2019s gone and there isn\u2019t any legitimate heir, that people are free to return to their natural inclinations, which is big government sponsored liberalism and socialism. That Reagan was just an eight-year aberration and liberals paid their price for it, but now everything\u2019s getting back to equilibrium.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s one other theory, but nevertheless, strip it all away and what you\u2019re left with is, I don\u2019t think you have any doubt about it, polling data which shows Americans are despondent, depressed, confused, lack confidence, think the country\u2019s headed on the wrong track. And yet the same polls tell us that people are moving in the direction of politics that have given us and created these circumstances in which people have lost confidence and lost faith. And we know that in some people\u2019s the cases this is true.<\/p>\n<p>You go back and look at this country seven years ago, ten years ago, I don\u2019t care how bad you hated Bush and I don\u2019t care how bad people hated the Iraq war, this country was nowhere near the psychological sewer that it\u2019s in today. And yet people do not associate the leadership of the past seven years with the current set of circumstances. I know the media is obviously a factor. I don\u2019t want to mention things that I\u2019ve mentioned before because I don\u2019t want to be repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here are Dana Milbank\u2019s three theories, by the way, just to get them out there. The first theory, why the country is so liberal &#8212; and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any denying, there\u2019s no question that the Democrat Party has become extreme far left. That is the mainstream. What I\u2019ve always thought, the kook fringe insane lunatics of the Democrat Party base are its mainstream now. And you see this lunacy illustrated in op-ed pages and editorial pages of things like the Washington Post, the New York Times. Lunacy has become mainstream in the Democrat Party. There is no moderate wing of the Democrat Party at all.<\/p>\n<p>Milbank\u2019s first theory is that &#8220;more people are identifying as liberal because of huge and rapid shifts on a couple of social issues, particularly gay marriage,&#8221; and transgenderism. So many people, he theorizes &#8212; it\u2019s not his theory. Maybe his theory, or somebody\u2019s theory &#8212; that gay marriage and transgenderism are so, so, so popular and so, so, so identified as liberal that people are saying, &#8220;If that\u2019s what liberalism is, I am all-in.&#8221; That\u2019s one theory. You buy that, Mr. Snerdley? It sounds kind of cock and bull to me.<\/p>\n<p>Second theory, &#8220;the nation\u2019s moral pendulum has always been swinging through history,&#8221; from left back to right, through the center, and back to left, and it hits the extremes and then bounces back, and the theory is that liberalism, mass liberalism today represents the extreme leftward tilt of that pendulum and that it will soon start moving back toward the center and then ultimately back to the right. No time frame given for this. But this is a popular theory among political scientists.<\/p>\n<p>And the third theory, which Dana Milbank says he finds compelling, which means this is what he chooses, &#8220;is that the rise in liberalism is a backlash against the over-the-top conservatism displayed by the Tea Party movement.&#8221; See, in that case it would mean this is permanent. He doesn\u2019t like this theory. It\u2019s just a momentary point in time where that pendulum is at the far left before it starts swinging back to the middle. His theory, if all this liberalism is a result of the Tea Party, then it\u2019s permanent.<\/p>\n<p>This is asinine. It\u2019s an asinine theory. According to that theory then the four years after Ronald Reagan should have seen exactly what we\u2019re seeing now, because the Tea Party is what it is, but Reagan was a 49-state landslide winner twice.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me give you another theory as to why it is said that the country is moving so far to the left. Now, I\u2019m not sure I buy the extent to which this is happening precisely because of the 2010 to \u201914 midterm elections. I don\u2019t deny that the Democrat Party is moving toward communism at all. But the country isn\u2019t. But now let\u2019s say that the polls are on to something and let\u2019s say there is a shift. Let\u2019s take a look at the Millennials &#8212; 18 to 34-year-olds, it is said.<\/p>\n<p>Can you honestly recall a conservative candidate any of them have ever heard, much less had a chance to vote for? Not Republican. Conservative. In other words, somebody name for me, say, a candidate in the last 25 years who\u2019s a genuine conservative. And I cite Reagan only because he won two landslides. Cite for me a legitimate Reaganite or conservative candidate in that vein who has been able to espouse it, campaign on it, offer a series of policies based in it.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that people moving to the left have no idea what the alternative is. It\u2019s never been presented to them. In fact not only that, what they imagine it to be is attacked mercilessly every day in the media and not defended. When you have Republicans coming along agreeing that the era of Reagan is over, what that does is further the idea that Reagan was just an aberration, that Reagan was just eight years of, &#8220;Wow, this country really got off track for a while,&#8221; to people that didn\u2019t live then and have not been able to read an accurate history of it.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_107232\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reagan1980_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Well, you can\u2019t really blame them. They don\u2019t know. And some of you might be saying, &#8220;But, Rush, there\u2019s been your show!&#8221; Yes but the show is not politics, folks. This show is not out campaigning. We\u2019re not trying to get votes, not running for office here. We don\u2019t have the power to implement any policy. At the same time, hosts of successful conservative media have also been targets for destruction by the American left. That can be dealt with if there&#8230;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Now, this current crop of Republicans running, there are a couple of, maybe two or three, that get into the debates, who might electrify voters. I mean, \u2019cause I\u2019m serious when I tell you that there are a lot of Americans&#8230; And I know for a fact that Millennials have never even had the chance to vote for a conservative, and maybe even people into their forties! They have never had it presented to them &#8212; by a candidate, by a party &#8212; in a positive, uplifting, explanatory way.<\/p>\n<p>You couple that with the fact that what conservative is said to be by the media and by the Democrat Party is constantly under assault, then it may well be that people think this is all there is. And when they look around the world, they see the same thing. They don\u2019t see any alternative around the world. In fact, we live in an era where the current president is doing his best to denigrate America\u2019s greatness in the past and claim that it is not real or that it wasn\u2019t legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the point is there could be substantive reasons, not just psychological, to explain all of this. And then if you add some hard, cold realities about how successful the left has been in creating as many dependent people who are now living on the safety net &#8212; and add to that then the drumbeat, I\u2019m telling you, of apocalyptic news story after news story after news story &#8212; I\u2019m telling you: I don\u2019t think it takes too much of that to create a perpetual doom in people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>If you doubt me, remember it wasn\u2019t all that long ago &#8212; and may still be the case today &#8212; that you can go into a poor black neighborhood where there was wanton violence and you asked them why they\u2019re doing it and you hear them say, &#8220;I don\u2019t expect to be alive much past age 21 or 22,&#8221; and that was a real thing. That\u2019s what many young blacks actually thought. They may still think, in fact. I mean, that was their experience.<\/p>\n<p>So what does it matter? It was a real experience. I mean, it was a real life expectation based on their living conditions, circumstances, and so forth. My point is that doom, gloom, negativism, pessimism is easy. We can all do it without any training. We\u2019re all naturally inclined this way. Thinking positively? That takes effort every day. Sometimes it\u2019s hard. As I\u2019ve always said, you do not need to go to the library to find books on how to fail. We all know how.<\/p>\n<p>But people who write books on how to think positively and how to succeed are millionaires, \u2019cause apparently it doesn\u2019t come naturally. Whenever you encounter somebody who\u2019s optimistic and upbeat, don\u2019t you think they\u2019re a little weird? &#8220;Wow, what\u2019s with that guy?&#8221; is a natural reaction that a lot of people have.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You got F. Chuck Todd in the Washington Post today saying one of the reasons why the country\u2019s moving left, he happily thinks, is because the country so overwhelming approves of gay marriage and transgenderism and when people find out that those things are articles of faith in liberalism and that\u2019s what liberalism is, then that\u2019s me, count me in. Except there\u2019s a slight problem.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>The only evidence that gay marriage is all this supported and so wonderfully accepted is polling data. Gay marriage has not been voted on, just like abortion. It\u2019s taken out of the public\u2019s hands and imposed on the country by the Supreme Court. Likewise, it is the courts who are imposing gay marriage on the nation. The public hasn\u2019t voted on it. The left has taken gay marriage out of the Democrat process.<\/p>\n<p>So you got all this talk about how America supports gay marriage, isn\u2019t it wonderful, yay yay yay. The left must not think so because they will not put it up to a vote. The left is resorting to nondemocratic means to impose gay marriage and after the fact say, &#8220;Look, oh, man, everybody supports it.&#8221; Just like they tried to say everybody supports abortion after Roe v. Wade, and this kind of stuff is what roils a society. You know, in Great Britain abortion is never argued about, it\u2019s not nearly like it is here \u2019cause they voted on it there. It wasn\u2019t imposed on \u2019em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It is stunning what is happening to the Democrat Party! There is no Democrat Party of JFK or LBJ anymore. There is no Democrat Party of the old warhorse Robert Strauss. The Democrat Party today is Bernie Sanders! Do you know Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger crowds than Hillary Clinton? 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