Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Rush: 'Mind-blowing' that people have lost faith in the country, but not in Obama

...and maddening. Here's a daily dose of reality for a Republican Party on its back...
"Republicans, for all intents and purposes, in five years, haven't had the power to stop anything. And it's worse than that. Aside from a couple of instances, they haven't even really tried. And yet, as you know by now, if you listen regularly, Obama totally, in this group of people, the low-information voters, the Millennials, certain percentage of Democrat voters, Obama escapes any responsibility for it, any blame. This is what flummoxes me. This is what just blows my mind. People have lost faith in the country, folks. They have not lost faith in Obama. Do you understand the importance of that, the profundity of that? Not at me; the reality of it. These Millennials, these young people, these disaffected Democrat voters, everybody miserable and unhappy has lost faith in the country.

They don't think the country is good anymore. They don't think the country's great. They don't think the country's exceptional. They don't think it's special. They don't think that the country holds the answers. In fact, their misplaced faith should be exclusively in Obama. So the damage Obama is doing is even worse than you might think. Not only are his policies transforming this country into a country that was never founded nor intended to be. Not only are his policies literally depressing people and consuming them with negativism, Obama's existence, his presidency, his policies have resulted in people losing faith in the country, not in him. And that's dangerous, because that makes it much easier for Obama and any Democrat to continue to talk about changing the country, if people have lost faith in it.

There isn't anything wrong with the country as founded. There isn't anything wrong with the country as it existed. What is wrong is what's being done to it by virtue of Obama policies."


Why? Rush says there's multiple answers to that question, but a big one lies within the capitulation of the Republican Party.
"There's a political party making this happen.

There's a president and a political party and an ideological movement that is causing people to lose faith in their country, and there isn't a corresponding political party saying, "No, this is a great country. This is a wonderful place. It's no different than it ever was, and you can make it better. You still have opportunity. You can still write your ticket in this country." There isn't a political party saying that.

There isn't an opposition political leader saying it, just maybe three or four. Instead, the Republican Party's thrown in with Democrat light."
The misdiagnosis of what voters want, along with the lack of pushback, has resulted in a political party in paralysis...
"The opposition party's been paralyzed by race, and by the media. No criticism of Obama has been permitted. It's all called racism and bigotry and what have you.

So people who need votes to get elected conclude that there's nothing to be gained 'offending people,' even people that are never gonna vote for 'em. There's nothing to be gained by it, and so while people lose faith in the country, there's nobody telling them otherwise. There's nobody telling them, "No, no, no! You do not have to lose faith in the country. What you're actually losing faith in is socialism, liberalism, and the Democrat Party's ideology. That's what you are losing faith in."

People have to be told; they have to be instructed. There's no pushback, there hasn't been for five years. I mean, not at the electoral party level. So the idea that people can lose faith in the country isn't challenged. I don't even know how many elected Republicans would actually agree that that's what's happening. But you cannot disagree with the fact that there is not a robust happiness even among those who are succeeding, because the country isn't."
This President, his administration, his party, are bringing the Alinsky objective to fruition...and there's no coalescent opposition countering them. If not now, when?

Related link: More Millennials Are Losing Faith in the Country, and No One in Politics is Pushing Back Against the Malaise