Posted on 01/09/2020 2:17:01 PM PST by goldstategop
RUSH: One of the things that I have made a point of over and over, and I have for many, many moons, is that most of us feel like we are being governed against our will. Obama, the Democrats win, and they govern against the will of the people. Its a sinking sensation. And I have made the point over and over again that liberalism is not the majority of thinking in this country, and its not even close. And yet it appears to be the dominate way of thinking.
So theres a Gallup poll out here today filled with a couple of charts which even if I screenshotted these and put em on the Dittocam, theyd be so small you couldnt follow em. Im not a big chart guy. Like Im not a big video guy. And the reason is, I can learn it much faster reading it than watching it. I can get the point of a video in 30 seconds instead of watching five minutes of it.
And the same thing looking at charts. I spend most of my time looking at charts trying to figure it out. Just tell me what they say and Im gonna do that here. Heres the bottom line. Gallup poll, latest: 24% of this country identifies as liberal. Twenty-four percent. Does that surprise you? Doesnt it seem like theyre everywhere? Doesnt it seem like theyre running the show? Doesnt it seem like we are the minority? Doesnt it seem like everywhere you turn theres liberal dominance here, liberal dominance there?
Be it in the news, be it in movies, throughout pop culture, in church. It doesnt matter where you go. Except, isnt it interesting? At least Well, speaking for myself, I never run into em. Throughout my career Let me give you a little anecdote. Throughout my career What am I? Well, in the Drive-By Media I am controversial, and I am outspoken, and Im extremist, and Im mean-spirited, you know, all these labels.
And over the course of my career, folks I will be honest with you there are people who have been reluctant to go anywhere in public with me because they have been afraid that Im gonna be set upon by hecklers and mobs who intend to do me harm. And it never happens. It has yet to happen anywhere Ive gone. I mean, I cant give you specific examples. (I could. Im not going to.) I could give you individual names of people who say, Rush, are you sure we ought to go there? My God. Thats gonna be dangerous.
I tell everybody, No. The only people were gonna encounter are people who are huge fans, supporters. Thats all that ever happens, and yet there is this Eh, its not a fear. Theres a belief that any conservative is gonna be mobbed. Now, its because we do see that in political events. You can have a Sarah Palin go out, and an organized mob shows up or Trump announces a travel ban and an organized, paid-for mob wearing vagina hats shows up all over the country.
But those are not organic. Theyre bought and paid for. Theyre made to look organic, and the media treats them as organic as though theyre spontaneous and natural but theyre not. By the same token, conservatives dont do that. Conservatives or Republicans dont organize and pay for protests. They just dont do it. Its not in our makeup. Were not malcontents. Were not running around thinking were grievanced all day long about things.
They do. The fact of the matter is, folks, we outnumber them nationwide. But, one of the two most influential areas determining public opinion? I would say that they are the media and education, and who owns those? The left. The Democrats. You throw in pop culture. Add pop culture to the day-to-day Drive-By Media, and you would be forgiven if your assumption was that we are vastly outnumbered and that we are a tiny minority and, as such, we are losing the country.
When in fact, in the Gallup poll, 24% of this country identifies itself as liberal and the Gallup headline itself says it. According to the latest Gallup poll, even as America has become more liberal, it has remained a center-right nation and I have been trying to pound this point home on issue after issue. We have never been even 50-50 on abortion. This country has always been center right, even on abortion. It is what
One of the most frustrating things has been to run into Republicans telling me, You gotta get em to stop talking about abortion. Were never gonna win. We gotta drop it. Wrong! We lose. You gotta do something about the Christians, Rush. I cant tell you the number of people who have asked me, Youve gotta do something about the Christians. What do you mean, do something about the Christians? Get em to shut up! Why?
Theyre killing us, Rush! Twenty-four million evangelical voters are killing us? You try to win elections without em, I say, You cant do it. But everybody falls prey to the media. Everybody buys the notion that if theyre a Republican or conservative, theyre in this distinct, tiny minority. It isnt true. Even this headlines a little misleading. Yes, America Has Become More Liberal. Who says? It has remained a center-right nation. The election of Donald Trump is some evidence of that.
I mean, Trump is not an ideological conservative and did not run as one.
But theres no question hes not a leftist.
If anybody is center right or right center, it would be Trump. n 2019, the ideological balance of the country remained center-right, with 37% of Americans, on average, identifying as conservative during the year, 35% as moderate and 24% as liberal. Liberals are the smallest of the three, twenty-four freaking percent and Ill tell you something else. This percentage of moderates? There are more conservatives than liberals in that group. Theyre just people afraid to say they are for the very reasons that we are discussing here.
America is still a center-right nation even as the culture over time has become more liberal.
Were not the minority here, according to Gallup.
Try telling that to Virginia!
Goodness, 24% is way too high!
In some places were outnumbered. Thats not the entire country.
And were 37%.
Historians put the Loyalist percentage around the time of the Revolution at about 15-20% while Patriots ran between 40 to 45%, with the rest being ballast.
Little has changed.
How many Germans were Nazis in 1933?
The fact is the Left has taken over most of our institutions.
Yup. That’s why why the patriots had guns and the Tories ran to Canada and the UK...
Trump is running several points ahead of the conservative population demographic at 45% to 52%, depending on what poll you look at.
He does have crossover appeal but then again, he isnt an ideological conservative.
I listened to NPR back in the 70’s before they went strawberry fields left. Even then they regularly described the country as 20% liberal, the rest as conservatives & moderates.
Rush used this same figure thirty years ago & later.
So, 24% represents an increase, due no doubt to all that urbanized diversity & multiculturalism.
Just ask the gun owners in Virginia.
The Left dominates the culture but thats not how most of us think.
Also, as liberals go further left, “moderate” means something different every year.
Usually, 65%-70% of Hispanics claim they are Conservatives.
Then, 65%-70% of Hispanics vote Democrat in the next election.
Then, the Wall Street Journal ludicrously claims that Hispanics vote Democrat because white Conservatives are mean to Hispanic Conservatives.
Bottom Line - Conservatives have always been a minority in the USA.
Politically, we will always punch above our weight class because we have the highest voter turn out, and because our political philosophy is based on factual reality.
We stood back and let them get away with it.
If’s unthinkable that we allowed our universities to get this bad. For that matter, or K-12th grade is way out of whack too, and they each need to be brought into somewhat of a political parity.
This anti-American nonsense is WRONG!
This defiling of our innocent children is WRONG!
The problem with polling like this is that tons of the population don’t think of themselves as ‘liberal’, or the far end of the spectrum leftist, when in fact they are. It’s like nobody is going to want to think of themselves as an extremist, or ‘crazy’.
People have no idea what the word means. Peopke called liberal todsy are not even close.
I wonder if its a she. ;-)
The Democrat Party are not liberals they are Stalinists.
and Bahamas...
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