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I Can Understand the Anger of African-Americans After 50 Years of Broken Promises By Democrats
RUSH: All I know is that if I were African-American and I, for 50 years, have been drinking the Kool-Aid -- and I've been loyal and I've been voting for the guys...
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I Can Understand the Anger of African-Americans in Ferguson After 50 Years of Broken Promises From Democrats

November 25, 2014


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RUSH: If I were African-American today, if I were an African-American who had voted for the Democrat Party for 50 years straight, I would be seriously asking myself, "What the hell? What in the world is going on?" If I were an African-American, I would be so confused that I would not know where to turn. You see, for 50-plus years, the Democrat Party -- and, by the way, as a subset of this, during the discussions prior to the election, one of the observations I made was that I really think that the Democrat Party, liberalism, makes its core supporters insane.
I think they drove them insane during the Iraq war. All the protests about the Iraq war and all of "the war is over," "the war is lost." All the atrocities, the media, all the focus on torture. Do you know even today, I don't know how much television you all watch, but even today I'm watching three or four series, TV shows. One of them is Madam Secretary -- I wish I could think of the others. But even now we're getting in series television episodes about how rotten America is, not was, how rotten America is because we tortured.
It is the most amazing thing. The so-called torture at Club Gitmo and elsewhere during the Iraq war is years and years ago, it has been dealt with, but the left was driven so insane they are still obsessed with it. And they are obsessed with it to the point that, to them, it means this country is really bad. This country has so many things it's done that we have to pay for. It's uncanny. I really do think liberalism and the Democrat Party drive their supporters insane. They create constant rage, constant outrage, constant hatred.

Every day is chaos. Every day is confrontation. Every day is crisis. Every day is somebody in power coming along to destroy you. Every day the country sucks. Every day the country is decrepit, every day. And after not too long a time, I guarantee you the people who follow this stuff closely -- and I'm talking about leftist politico types -- I think they are so filled with rage and hatred that it bubbles over into, could be, clinical insanity. Because there is total irrationality all over the place.
It's almost as though -- I'll give you an example, by the way, here of what I'm talking about in advance. On CNN this morning a little after five a.m., there was a reporterette wringing her hands in utter and total confusion over why the district attorney in St. Louis couldn't just tell the grand jury to go to hell and file charges anyway, because she felt that was the thing that should have been done. Never mind the law. Never mind her ignorance of the law. All that mattered was how she felt about it.
And I think one of the things that's happening as we try to analyze the slow deterioration of our culture, which includes a deterioration of knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, of the rule of law, what has happened, what's replacing that education, that understanding, is this belief that feelings equal common sense. So that if I feel like the DA could have just ignored the grand jury, then that makes perfect since. It's common sense, why didn't he do it? I feel like that should have happened. I would feel better if he would have done that. I would feel better if I got my way.
And feelings, pay attention, folks, if you watch television, and I don't care what it is, the aftermath of a football or baseball game, "What are you feeling? What are your emotions? How does this feel?" after they've just won the World Series. How do you think it's gonna feel? But even in news programs, nobody's asked what they think anymore. Everybody's asked what they feel. And nobody tells you what they think. They always tell you what they feel, and their feelings have become common sense. And the left has toyed with people's feelings. The Democrat Party has ratcheted up those feelings and created a constant anger disproportionate to reality.
There's an irrationality about it all. You can't talk sense to some of these people. They're simply outraged all the time, angry, want to be. They want to be mad. That's the mode of operation. That's the mode of existence, which then transfers itself to everybody's a victim of something, and the victim of a faceless, mean-spirited, extremist majority and/or country that has them constantly in battle, constantly pitched in battle against, in some cases, imaginary forces. It's unhealthy as it can be. And we see how it manifests itself so often, not just last night in Ferguson.
We see it all the time, how this leftist political scheming, the daily script writing of the soap opera, we see how it manifests itself. And it manifests itself in criminality in some cases, and justifiable criminality, we're told. We must understand the rage. And it manifests itself in other ways which are destructive. And it builds up false hopes and expectations, which is my point.
If I were African-American today and I had been loyally voting for the Democrat Party -- and, by the way, the reason why I've been doing that is key, too. Because I've been told if I'm African-American, I've been told for 50 years that the reason I'm mad, that the reason life is the way it is is because racist whites in the Republican Party are holding me back. And I've been voting loyally Democrat for 50 years because I'm gonna support the guys who are gonna fix that, the Democrats.
I'm gonna vote for the guys that understand my plight. I'm gonna vote for the guys that understand what the Republicans have done to me. I'm gonna vote for the guys that are gonna fix it. For 50 years I've been voting for the guys that are gonna fix it. For 50 years I've been believing everything they say. For 50 years I've been believing they've got the answer. For 50-plus years I have voted because I believe that the Democrat Party has the solution and they're really looking out for me and they're gonna make sure all of this kind of stuff that's been going on since, let's just take the modern era, since 1957, is gonna end.

And yet, if I'm an African-American in this country and I look around after what happened last night and I remember Rodney King and I remember Watts riots, you name it, I have to start asking myself, "What's going on?" And then the cherry on top of the silken swirl is this: Along came The One, Barack Hussein O. In 2008, finally all of my loyalty to the Democrat Party has paid off. In 2008, all of my loyalty to the Democrat Party and my helping them win and fight those mean-spirited Republicans who want to hold me back, finally we have triumphed and we have reached the pinnacle.
The first African-American president has been elected and all of my problems are soon to be solved, because finally everything we have strived for -- striven if you're in Rio Linda -- has paid off. And that's why I'm really confused today, because the election of the first African-American president doesn't seem to have fixed anything. In fact, it may have even made it worse. All I know is is that I've been supporting the Democrat Party for 50 years on the basis that they're not gonna allow this kind of stuff to keep happening.
They're gonna fix this. They're gonna deal with these powerful people that keep giving me the raw end of the stick. They're going to fix this stuff that makes sure I get the raw end of the deal all the time. They're gonna make sure there isn't any more racism against me and my family and they're gonna make sure that these people that want to be racists don't get away with it anymore. And they're gonna make sure that I'm gonna get -- well, whatever I think I'm gonna get.
But now almost six years after this historic election of the first African-American president where I believe finally it's all gonna change now. We got our guy, one of our own, one of us, understands our plight, and it's payback time, mama. And then I wake up and I look at the streets of Ferguson and it's businesses owned by my people being destroyed. African-American businesses being destroyed. Most businesses destroyed in Ferguson are minority-owned.
"KMOV-TV reports that the majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during Monday night's violent riots in Ferguson were minority owned." So after 50 years of loyally supporting the Democrat Party and that resulting in the election of the first brother, Barack Hussein O, all my problems solved, all my loyalty paid off, finally payback time, whatever, it's gonna end, and whatever I've been mad about for all these years is gonna be over, we're gonna fix it. And then six years into it, it's worse, and I'm confused.
I don't know who to blame, because all of a sudden as an African-American I'm having to face the truth, when for 50 years I never had to. Maybe if I'm an African-American today I begin to believe, begin to think, maybe just a tiny little light, that I've been played. Maybe I'm being taken for granted. Maybe all these promises were empty, 'cause they certainly haven't paid off.
So I got Barack Hussein O, I'm a loyal Democrat, African-American, 50 years I showed up, and whatever they want, I do it. Whatever they want protested, I protested, whatever they want me to say and think about the other guys, I say and think it. We got our guy in there, Barack Hussein Obama, got six years and nothing changes. And now I, as an African-American, loyal Democrat for 50 years, begin to wonder, "Well, what is keeping me back?"

We got the first black president. We've got black mayors all over the place. We got Congressional Black Caucus. We got Al Sharpton. We got Jesse Jackson. We got the New Black Panthers. We got everything. We got all kinds of stuff. And yet it's no better for me. Nothing seems to have changed here. Whoever's keeping me back is still doing it, but I don't know who it is now anymore. But it doesn't seem to be the guys I've been told it was. Tough to take.
You can almost understand the outrage. If you're an African-American and you lived long enough to have been paying attention for 50 years and you believe all these promises, you believe all the talk about the Republicans being the bad guys, conservatives being the bad guys, and you believe all this talk that the Democrats are the fixers and the Democrats have the compassion, the Democrats are not the racists, the Republicans are, and then you get the election of Barack Hussein Obama and it's gonna change, baby, this is it, this nirvana. And nothing changes. I think I might be a little mad. I think I might be outraged just at that.
I might not even need a grand jury doing something I don't understand to be mad. The grand jury thing, that just icing on the cake 'cause I'm mad to begin with because I've been lied to for 50 years. I've been promised, I've been told, and I've had people pointing fingers at the ones that are really to blame and they've made me believe they're to blame, and I believed that they're to blame, and I haven't liked them at all and I think they're all racist pigs, and yet nothing's changing. After 50 years I've been voting for these guys and it's the same thing over and over. In fact, it may even be getting worse.
I'm not gonna blame myself. I can't do that. That's not part of being a Democrat. You never blame yourself. You always find somebody to blame, but maybe it isn't the Republicans. Whatever, I would be mad. I would be confused. I'd be over-the-top outraged. And, plus, in these last six years, I've had the guys I've been voting for telling me every day how mad I should be. And for the last six years every day I've been listening to people tell me what a rotten country it is and I've been agreeing with them. And they've been telling me how rotten these people are and those people are, and I've been signing on, I've been signing up, I've been agreeing with them. And yet I'm still where I was six years ago, maybe worse.
So I can understand the anger, because 50 years of false promises, 50 years of all that hope and a little bit of change and nothing materialized. And then, when others like me start getting mad, they take it out on ourselves? The show of support for the gentle giant manifested itself in criminality, and I didn't see a Republican anywhere near. If I'm an African-American, I'm looking at the manifestation of support for the gentle giant as looting and destroying African-American-owned businesses, and I look around, I don't even see a Republican within five miles, I'd be a little mad, too.
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RUSH: All I know is that if I were African-American and I, for 50 years, have been drinking the Kool-Aid -- and I've been loyal and I've been voting for the guys 'cause they care about me and they understand me and they understand that the other guys are racist pigs and want to hold me back and so forth -- and then nothing changes, I'd be mad, too.
And then when I see the first African-American president seemingly in love with Hispanic illegals, and he doesn't care about me anymore, I would be mad. I might even feel a little betrayed. I might. I don't know. But it's clear that the first African-American president really, really, really cares about Hispanic illegal immigrants. He really does. He really does.
And, remember, as an African-American voting loyal Democrat for 50 years, imagine what my expectations were we finally got our guy in office. We thought a lot of magic was gonna happen. We had a lot of ills that were gonna get fixed, were gonna get erased. We expecting a lot of punishment, too. A lot of people that had done us wrong over 50 years. Obama was gonna fix that.
We're gonna get rid and we're gonna get even. We're gonna level the playing field!
And none of that's happened.
I'd be a little mad, too.
Now, CNN is reporting that the stepfather of the gentle giant went out and spoke to some protesters in Ferguson and exhorted them to "burn this bitch down." That's what CNN is reporting. I'd be mad, too, folks.
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