Posted on 02/05/2016 2:39:14 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: The Democrat debate -- and, as I say, studied it. It was painful. Folks, I'm not kidding. It was painful on so many levels. I literally felt like I was a visitor from someplace and was not at all living in the world they were talking about. These people sounded like they were in a foreign country. I mean, it was that striking. It was just beyond anything that happens in my day-to-day world, listening to these two. It was Grandma and Grandpa just arguing, and I suffered through this. And I'm gonna explain to you why.
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RUSH: The Democrat debate. Polling data, by the way: Bernie Sanders now leads Clinton by 20 points in New Hampshire. The Quinnipiac University poll out today says Bernie Sanders nearly tied with Hillary Clinton in a nationwide poll. Now, just for me, just a quick overview: I thought Hillary cleaned his clock last night, but that's not what they think. What I think doesn't matter. Folks, you and I have nothing in common with the people watching that debate last night. You have to watch this in order to be able to understand, it's such a different world in which they're all living and some working.
Many of their voters do not work. It's key to understand this. But the thing that you have to be able to do to successfully empathize with the average Democrat voter -- and I'm not talking about an elite, rich Wall Street Democrats or Hollywood Democrats. I'm talking about the Democrat middle class, lower middle class rank-and-file. You have to be able to watch this and understand the environment and attitudes they have watching it, which you and I do not have. We do not think like they do. We're not fatalists. We're not depressed. We're not defeatists.
We're not victims.
We don't think everything that's going wrong is somebody else's fault because they're specifically targeting us. The liberal mind-set, as it exists today, is absent happiness. There is none. Add to that, after seven years of what was to be the fix for everything wrong not just in America, but in the world, they're even angrier. They live with the reality, probably subconsciously, that everything they voted for and believed was gonna happen -- all these great things that were gonna get fixed -- are worse. The first African-American president has made no positive difference whatsoever. They're faced daily with the reality which they probably do not admit that everything they believe in tanks.
But that's not even half of it.
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RUSH: Oh, look. There's Obama out now, and he's hailing these fraudulent unemployment numbers released today. He's out there saying the first time unemployment rate is below 5% in eight years. It's 4.9%, and 151,000 new jobs are created. This is just... It's just a lie. It's just total fraud. What is this "first time unemployment rate"? Well, we talk about first time so we don't have to talk about the people who have been unemployed for five years, six years, seven years. So we don't talk about them.
So, yeah, the number of people unemployed for the first time, is under 5%. Add those to the 94 million Americans who can't find jobs, and it's not a pretty picture. But there he is; he's out there claiming credit for it, and he said in the State of the Union show that anybody who tells you that this economy is not good is crazy or lying or whatever. Hillary Clinton spent the whole debate last night telling everybody how the economy sucks. That's one of the many things.
You watch this and you don't get it. I mean, what is she complaining about? She and her party have been running this country for seven years, and she dares to detail all that's gone wrong with it? But I'm getting ahead of myself here. To watch this debate last night, I tried to assume the attitude/mental psyche of your average middle class Democrat watching it. And the thing that you have to do doing that, is you have to understand who the Democrats are today. What is their base like? They are perpetual and constant victims, folks.
Many of them are poor, but even the ones what aren't poor feel they are poor. They have invested their entire lives hoping others are gonna do things for them. And of course nobody gets anywhere doing that. So when it doesn't work out, you feel like you've been victimized. You feel like you've been taken advantage of and forgotten. It's never your fault. They think they've been victimized by all of them isms: sexism, racism, bigotry, homophobia, whatever it is.
There is some sort of explanation that is rooted in negative behavioral traits of others who are doing mean things to them or who are standing in their way of getting anywhere, or who are purposely targeting them and keeping them down. Their misery -- and that's what their lives are. Their misery, in their minds, is explained by all of these mean, powerful forces out to deny them: Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Retail, the Republican Party, talk radio, you name it.
All of these powerful forces are arrayed against them and keeping them pinned down to where they can't accomplish anything. In their minds, they should have been great successes! They're the smartest people in the world. They're smarter than you, they're smarter than people running the country, but they've never gotten a break. Everybody has given them the raw deal every day of their lives. It was either their teachers or their school or a coach or a parent. Somebody failed to see how brilliant they are, how great they are.
The Democratic Party should be called The Thief and Knave Party. Knaves run it for the benefit of thieves i.e. the main part of their constituency.
Greed, envy, lust, sloth, and pride.
Am I missing anything?
3 kinds of Democrats.
1. People on TANF, EBT, etc with no hope to change. Hope and Change never meant getting off. It was the hope to get more and the change to increase it.
2. People who have always been Democrat. Their family, co-workers, softball team are Democrats. They have casual contact with Republicans but don’t really know any. Like Yankees and Red Sox hate each other, so Democrat is their team. They hate the other team and think the other team hates them. They think if they sat on the wrong side at an away game they will be attacked.
3. Program Pimps. When Hillernie proposes big new programs, they dream of that money going to their Academic Department. They dream of it going to their non-profit. They dream of hiring hundreds of navigators and having a really big organization that will be taken seriously.
Gluttony and wrath.
I understand permanently “STUCK ON STUPID” very well, Rush.
“3 kinds of Democrats.
1. People on TANF, EBT, etc with no hope to change. ..
2. People who have always been Democrat.
3. Program Pimps. When Hillernie proposes big new programs, they dream of that money going to their Academic Department. They dream of it going to their non-profit. They dream of hiring hundreds of navigators and having a really big organization that will be taken seriously.”
Add one more. Corporate cronies who feast on Washington subsidies and regulation of their competitors.
Your emphasis on Crony NGO’s is really important. Planned Parenthood is no less a crony leech on the taxpayer than is General Electric, Soylandra, and Goldman Sachs. Same with the Education/Industrial Complex.
Add one more; all their spoils based groups who are pimped out by race meisters, gender meisters, gay meisters, Muslim meisters, and others of the multiculti , PC bent.
There’s the special interests groups, LGBT, feminists, illegals, black lives matter, etc. Their whole lives are based on victimhood and revenge.
Not sure that my overweight self should comment on liberal voters being gluttons.
And at the moment, wrath is right here on FR in every single primary thread.
Dumber than a
LGBT and similar, when you scratch the surface, are all about funding. Global Warming is the best example. If Hillary won and funded global cooling research then 99% of global warming activists would spin on a dime...uh.. spin on a trillion dimes... and not recognize the spin, except to mention the dialectical nature of events.
Most Black voters are not in the welfare or Program pimp categories. They believe that Republicans hate them because Republicans say so many lies about them. So they hate Republicans.
Immigrants (legal and illegal) are the extreme example of not being understood and reacting to that. Mexican immigrants also fall into 3 types:
45% are PRI...think Chicago Democrats
45% are PAN. The previous 2 presidents of Mexico were PAN. Calderon was a Santorum type social conservative. Prior to him Fox, a libertarian leaning pragmatist.
10% are PRD...think Lenin. They are still trying to live the 1917 revolution.
Get Hollywood movie on DVD: FOR GREATER GLORY with Eva Longoria and Andy Garcia if you want to see the types of Mexicans and their perspectives on politics, government and values.
I watched that film on DVD a few weeks ago. Not a bad movie, though not great IMHO. Enlightened a totally unknown (north of the border) part of Mexican history, and gave a possible glimpse of America’s future if the present course continues.
Yes, it may be prophetic of the US.
I have much experience with Mexican immigrants in IL.
Most Mexican leaders in church and business are like Catorce, the cowboy leader.
The Andy Garcia libertarian character is maybe 1 in 10,000. But I have met them. Former President Vicente Fox was very much like Andy Garcia’s character. Former President Calderon was very much like Catorce. Post WWII the other former Presidents were like the uncle/mayor.
Most Mexicans who choose politics are like the godfather, the local mayor. They are corrupt. They are not ideologues.
But the most dedicated ideologues are like the 1920s president. They are high profile. Low information people think that all Mexicans are of that political bent when only a very few are.
Any local precinct worker/ground game should be able to get 50% of the vote with the Catorce and Garcia types and their followers. Getting the ones that are resigned to corruption takes a little more work. But it has been done in many places.
I moved into a heavily Mexican immigrant area and turned it from 55% D to 65% hard conservative R by getting 100% of the Mexican vote and 100% of the other Hispanics (except 1 Puerto Rican on welfare). I got a lot of help in doing that by getting the Catorce types to deliver their freinds and family.
Have you seen The Lost City, another good Andy Garcia film about Cuba and the fall of the Batista regime?
Thanks for the tip. I will look for it. I have not seen it. I just finished Gran Torino this moment. But I dont really see a lot of movies.
Garcia plays a nightclub owner who remains in Cuba after Fidel takes over. There is a great scene where a repugnant little apparatchik tells him that the musicians union has declared the saxophone to be an imperialist instrument and it cannot be used in Garcia’s band. Picture that sweet little revolutionary Melissa Click at the University of Missouri with a Cuban accent. They’re all cut from the same butcher’s cloth.
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