{"id":8703,"date":"2014-08-05T19:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T23:21:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:41:41","slug":"slavery_fuels_liberal_hatred_of_the_constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/05\/slavery_fuels_liberal_hatred_of_the_constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery Fuels Liberal Hatred of the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What is the number one enemy of the American left, as formalized, call it the Democrat Party or the liberals, socialists, whatever you want to, what is their number one enemy in the country right now? (interruption) Well, it really isn\u2019t conservatives and the Tea Party. That is where the manifestation of their opposition appears and reveals itself.<\/p>\n

Their real enemy is the Constitution. The Constitution is that single little dangling thread that\u2019s the only thing right now that\u2019s keeping us a representative republic. The Constitution is something that the vast majority of professional leftists — now, I\u2019m not talking about these, you know, average yokels posting comments on websites. These, to me, are just the robots on the left. They\u2019re not thinkers. They\u2019re just reactionary liberals and support whatever their heroes believe.<\/p>\n

But the people on the left, the college professors, the teachers, the opinion makers, the elected Democrats and so forth, their number one enemy, the obstacle, the biggest obstacle in their way right now is the Constitution. And it has been, for many of them, since the Constitution was ratified. It certainly has been their number one obstacle in my life. And you can see evidence of it everywhere.<\/p>\n


\nWhat is Roe v. Wade? Roe v. Wade is basically the left getting judges in positions of power to interpret the Constitution as they want. They would prefer there not be one, it\u2019s very simple. The Constitution expressly limits the power of government. Well, that right there is a huge obstacle because what they want is as much government, as big a government, and as powerful a government as they can secure. And the Constitution, the very essence of this country, says that cannot happen.<\/p>\n

So why do they oppose the Constitution? What is it about the Constitution they hate aside from that? That is the biggie, the fact that it expressly limits government. But it\u2019s deeper than that. For people like Obama and Eric Holder, I believe — and there will never be any way to prove this because they would never admit this — but I believe that there is a genuine, long held, deeply felt contempt for the Constitution. And it\u2019s all about slavery.<\/p>\n

The Constitution, this great document of individual liberty and freedom and all that, was ratified during the days of legal slavery. What has happened since does not lessen or reduce the amount of anger they feel over that. All of the things that have happened in this country from the Civil War to the 14th Amendment, everything, equal opportunity laws, whatever has been done to address that problem does not count. It does not ameliorate. It does not soften them. It does not lessen their anger. They can\u2019t get over the fact that it was ratified when slaves were legal, slavery was legal. And it animates them to this day.<\/p>\n

I think in the case of Obama and Holder and quite a few others, it is what provides the fuel of their rage, their contempt for this country. How can anybody sing the praises of that damn document? How can anybody sing the praises of a damn country that would separate itself from tyranny and come up with a Constitution that spells out human rights and freedom and liberty while black people could be owned? They can\u2019t get past it. They don\u2019t want to get past it.<\/p>\n


\nNo matter what we\u2019ve done in this country to get past it, it doesn\u2019t count, because they don\u2019t want to let go of the rage. Just like someone told me about Sonia Sotomayor. She got where she is because of rage and anger at the system. It\u2019s productive to be rageful and angry at the system. They don\u2019t want to give that up. That rage and that anger is animating. It\u2019s what fuels them. They\u2019ll never express it, that would be too risky. But it\u2019s in there.<\/p>\n

And, as such, this country is not anywhere near what everybody believes that the textbooks of history say. “The land of the free and the home of the brave” and all that\u2019s just a crock as far as they\u2019re concerned. This country, therefore, became a big powerful superpower, rich and so forth, but it\u2019s unjustified, undeserved, a stacked deck. This country needs to pay a price for doing that.<\/p>\n

The Founders and their descendants who maintained power and wealth as a result of the founding of this country, are the targets of people like this that I\u2019m referring to. I think if you\u2019re able to get people to be honest, if you could drill down deep enough, you would find… I mean, the Constitution in and of itself is enough. Even without the fact it was ratified during slavery, the Constitution in and of itself is enough for these people to oppose it.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t believe in liberty and individual freedom \u2019cause they think that\u2019s a stacked deck and they think that\u2019s unequal and unfair and things aren\u2019t evenly distributed and it\u2019s just not good. “We need a fair government distributing everything equally and fairly so nobody\u2019s better than anybody else,” and all this crap. But you throw in the fact it was ratified during slavery.<\/p>\n

I think this is one of the things that fuels people like Obama and Holder today who are hell-bent on transforming this country and getting even with it, whatever. That\u2019s the chip on their shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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