Democrats Exploit Tragedy to Implement Their Utopian Agenda of Behavioral Control. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, January 16, 2013.
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Limbaugh:
And I
want to remind you, I want to tell you one more time what’s driving all
this. I mean this, again, from the
bottom of my heart. You got Biden and
Obama up there today. It could be John
Kerry one day, Harry Reid the next, or Nancy Pelosi. But whatever, the Democrats, they’re all up
talking about things we must do to make our country safer, our children. We must do this to protect people from the
rich, whatever, it’s all rooted in the exact opposite of the way they want you
to think of it. They want you to think
of them as loving you, understanding you, protecting you, relating to you, on
your side. You're the little guy and
they’re looking out for you.
The
truth of the matter is that these elitist leftists who want to control every
aspect or as much of life as they can do so precisely because they have no
faith in you. You look at a guy like
Ronald Reagan, or look at any conservative.
I’ll use myself. When I look out
across the country I make an assumption that we are populated by a country where
the majority of the people are decent and good and trustworthy. We can count on
them, they're reliable, and when they’re needed, they’ll show up. We look at the people of this country
optimistically. We look at our future
optimistically. We look and see a
country of people who can take care of themselves and who want to, who are
self-reliant, who want to be self-reliant, maybe in some cases even rugged
individualists. We don't see anything
wrong with that.
The one
thing we don’t do is look out across this country and see a majority of people
that we look at with contempt. We do not
think the majority of people in this country are predisposed to evil or bad
behavior or rotten behavior. We don’t
look at the majority of these people having to be controlled. We don’t look out over the country and see a
bunch of incompetence and ineptitude. We
don’t look and see a country filled with people who don’t know what's best for
them. We do not see a population that is
incapable of doing the right thing.
Quite the opposite.
The
left however, people like the president and other Democrats look out over the
country and they don’t trust the inherent goodness of people. Quite the opposite. Why would they have all this legislation to
control as much behavior as possible?
They don’t trust you to do the right thing. They don’t think you're very smart. They don’t think you’re capable of becoming
very smart. They don't think you're
capable of becoming very educated. They
don’t think that you’re wise enough to make the correct decisions that they
think you should make in raising your kids, in taking care of yourself, running
your own life. They have to do it for
you. And they approach you in this
effort by making you think that they have great compassion for you and love and
caring and that they only want the best for you.
I would
simply ask you to look at every group of people who accepts that behavior,
every group of people who vote for them, take a look how their lives are. The people who have turned their lives over
to the Democrat Party or to liberalism, people who have bought the notion that
the government will take better care of them than they will take care of
themselves, look at how they live. They’re
not happy for one thing. They’re not in
control of their own lives. They don’t
have any self-confidence. They don’t
have self-love or self-respect.
When we
look over the country, when we see people in trouble, we see people who have
turned their lives over to Democrats, who have become dependent on government,
who have thrown themselves away, essentially, and it breaks our heart. It crushes us, and we want to reach out and
fix it. We want to reach out, teach people that they’re better than they think
they are. That they can do more than they think. That they can be more than they think they
can be. That they are far more competent and far more capable than they think
they are, than they’ve been told. We
reach out, we want people to know we have faith in them, we do see the goodness
in them, we do see the decency in them, and we want all of that to surface.
We don’t
look out over this country and see every aspect of it we want to control. We’re not into controlling anybody. We like freedom. We believe in free will. We think that you are the best steward of
yourself and your self-interests, not some faceless, distant capital that
claims to care about you more than you do or than we do, that claims to have
your best interests at heart. Because I’m
telling you, the truth is, when they look out over this country, they look at
people with a contempt and an arrogance and a condescension that says, “Those
people can’t get through the day without me.
Those people can’t get their kids to school and keep them safe without
me writing laws about other people and their guns.” You don’t know and don’t have what it takes to
take care of yourself. They have to do
it for you. And they want to do it. They want to control your life. They want that power over you.
We
conservatives don’t. We want the greatest country we can have. We want the
greatest, best place to live in this world. We want a place where people can be
whoever and whatever they want. We want to get as many obstacles out of people’s
way as possible, not put obstacles in your way. And that’s what’s happening.
Everything that happened today did that: 23 executive actions, a big summary of
all this new gun legislation.
Why?
Because you don’t have the sense to protect yourself. You don’t have the sense
to protect your kids. “Now, we’re not gonna let you protect your kids the way
the president protects his because his kids are more important than yours, and
you’d better understand that right off the bat. But we still are gonna look out
for you because you simply can't.” That’s what all this means.
Practically
every piece of legislation that comes from the Democrat Party is rooted in your
inability to run your own life, and that comes from their looking at you and
seeing incompetence and inability. You have no wisdom. You don’t know how to
make the proper judgments in life. The way to understand this is to understand
that they don’t love you. You are to be used to advance their power.
You’re
an experiment to prove that they know better than you do how to live your life,
’cause you don’t have what it takes. There’s no other reason to want to enact
all of these controls on people’s lives. There’s no other reason to want to
take this kind of freedom away from people. That reason is simply power for
themselves, rooted in their sincere belief that you don’t have what it takes to
get through life without all kinds of problems being caused that you don’t know
how to fix.
