Well, so did Mark Levin (starting @ 12:00 into podcast)..."Let me tell you where I think we are today. I think we're on the brink of bringing 11 million people out of the shadows on to a path to citizenship, making us not only a humane country, but more economically successful country. I think we're in the process of guaranteeing that no one who works 40 hours a week will have to continue to live in poverty. We're gonna raise that minimum wage. I think we're in the final stages of rectifying the injustice of income equality between women and men. Not only is it unjust for women to make 70 cents on the dollar compared to a man, it's stupid economically. It's against our economic interest. And it's way past time we stop arguing about whether every American has the right to adequate, affordable health care. Thanks to Barack Obama, that fight is over, and we are not going back, period."
...and that's what Biden, Obama, the Democrats, and quite frankly, too many Republicans, do."You see, ladies and gentlemen, this is not about civil rights anymore. This isn't a civil rights agenda. This is a Big Government agenda. Martin Luther King was marching against, among other things, Democrats. Democrat governors, Democrat state legislators, Democrat mayors, Democrat sheriffs. The Democrats still don't get this liberty thing. They still don't get this rule of law, constitution thing. They still don't get this thing about unalienable rights and free will and individual sovereignty. They don't get it, they never will get it. They are a Big Government operation.
Bringing 11 million people out of the shadows? We didn't put them in the shadows in the first place! They're here illegally! How is this a civil rights issue? Ralph Abernathy didn't think it was a civil rights issue. And unlike Joe Biden, he marched right next to Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez didn't think it was a civil rights issue, 'cause he marched against it too. Suddenly it's a civil rights issue.
The minimum wage is a civil rights issue. Really? Economic liberty is a civil rights issue. Is that our focus on the lowest rung of the ladder? We want people to move up the ladder, and they cannot move up the ladder without taking the first step. This is a sop for the unions. Not for poor, minorities and other people, who are trying to get the first step up on the ladder. It's not a civil rights issue.
Guaranteeing people who work 40 hours a week won't live in poverty. Really? Well let me tell you something. That 17.3 Trillion dollar fiscal operating debt, and that now over 100 Trillion dollar unfunded liability, that's gonna take the whole damn country down! Nobody's gonna be above poverty one day. The answer to poverty is liberty. It's free market capitalism. It's the only way out for the vast majority of people. It works! It's worked before, it works today, it'll work tomorrow, but for the obstruction of Big Government, which is now the civil rights issue, Big Government.
He says, the Vice President of the United States, that it's unjust for women to make 77 cents on the dollar. You know what, folks? He's right! But that figure's a lie, and it's been addressed time and time and time again. They look at aggregates rather than specific jobs. Because still in our country, it's a funny thing about nature and women. They still want to nurture their children. I'm sorry, it's true! It's a funny thing in this country. Moms still want to be moms! And so in many respects, they take jobs where they can spend more time with their children. None of that's considered in the feminist, radical left agenda, which pushes this statistic. We also know for a fact that if you want to apply this manner of analyzing things, that in the White House, men are paid more than women! Right under Joe Biden's nose! What does he do about it? Not a damn thing.
And then there's the issue of equality. Equality of payments. What does that mean? That the same person doing the same job should be paid the same thing. Well guess what? If the same person, regardless of their genitalia, is doing the same job, for the most part, they are paid the same thing!"
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"This is part of the problem. Part of the problem is you've got a dumb man like Joe Biden who's a demagogue, always has been a demagogue...he speaks at a forum like this, and he just pukes his lies up.
If we had what I've been calling for sometime now, a New Republican Party with a rebirth of freedom, not just on Martin Luther King's birthday, but every single day, we'd be making the case to anyone who'd listen, anyone, regardless of where they live, regardless of their background, regardless of what they do with their genitalia, regardless of their pigmentation, regardless of their religion, we would make the case that economic freedom and political freedom are intertwined! That when combined in the same hands, it's a recipe for tyranny. That we take progress, as a result of economic and political freedom, for granted. That our key documents, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights as part of the Constitution, demonstrate our magnificent heritage, focus on individual sovereignty and a stable, just rule of law.
The tremendous progress we've had in this society, second to none, makes certain imperfections even more acute, even more objectionable, because people obsess over them, they focus over them. They even lie about them and distort them. Because these demagogues, like Biden, they want people to turn to government. In specific, they want people to turn to them! And too many people ignore the danger that government imposes to their individual freedom. Government coercion is accepted as a force of improvement, a force of security and equality, when it's not."
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So when Joe Biden shows up at the National Action Network and peddles more of the same Big Government statism as civil rights, he should be called on it. ...
We can make the case, ladies and gentlemen, for a free society. We can make the case, ladies and gentlemen, for respect for each and every human being and unalienable rights. We can make the case against a big, smothering, overbearing government with an insatiable appetite for power. We can make the case.
The civil rights movement is about liberty. Liberty. It's not about radical egalitarianism. Radical egalitarianism is about tyranny, where the individual is disrespected. It's about uniformity and conformity. It's about smothering rules and regulations. It's about bullying by government, pushing people around, telling them what to do, telling them what they can't do, mandating things, banning things, just because it can.
People's whose ancestry goes back to slavery, people whose ancestry goes through segregation, that's the natural conservative constituency. It truly is, if we would make the case, if we would break the back of the NEA and AFT and government-sanctioned control over our public school systems, and create competition and improve education and improve the ability of individuals to think for themselves and to really look at American history and to embrace our heritage. It's very difficult, but it has to be done.
Civil rights isn't government dictating wages and salaries, it isn't government making people who are here illegally legal, it isn't this endless war for radical egalitarianism until we're all at each others' throats demanding this and demanding that, that we're all victims all the time and every time."
We have to learn how to take these demagogues on, articulating conservatism and the principle behind it in order to win over Americans as a whole, away from the forces of inevitable tyranny. And we must insure that those we elect to represent us selflessly share in such learnedness.
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