Posted on 07/26/2012 2:52:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I just saw a story quickly. I scanned it because I didn't have a chance to print it out, but it's about people literally abandoning public schools. They're just leaving them. Enrollment in public schools nationwide -- I think the number I saw was down 10% and it's increasing. In big cities, which means that's inner city kids. We're not talking whites. Schools are decaying and Obama, the Democrats, are keeping those schools open in fealty to the teachers unions and for a whole bunch of other reasons. I have people ask me, and I've asked myself all the time, too, although I must say I have the answers. So my questions to myself are rhetorical. People say, "I don't understand how African-Americans just keep voting Democrat.
ou make a mistake if you try to answer that policy-wise or intellectual-wise. It's not about that. There's no reason for anybody who cherishes success, liberty, and freedom, to be voting for Obama, but a lot of people are going to. I talked about this within the past month, and I hate to say it comes down to something like this, but it is one of many relevant factors, and it boils down to cool, and in a sense marketing. In fact, let me illustrate it this way. I'm reading some of the highbrow intellectuals on some of the so-called (they think) highbrowed blogs. And they're highbrow analyzing the election, and the highbrows have got a theme going on some of these discussions. The theme is this.
Is the decay of the country, is the status of the economy and the worsening of everybody's standard of living, is that enough to get rid of Obama, or is Romney gonna have to do something other than just be Romney? Because there is a comfort in knowing who you've got. People are actually speculating and suggesting that people might, in the midst of all this decay, nevertheless choose to stay with Obama because the other guy might be worse. This is what the highbrows are postulating out there. I think that's a crock. Now, I do think that Romney's gonna have to do more than talk about the economy, and I do think when he talks about the economy he's gonna have to get specific, and it wouldn't be hard.
Mitt, tell us what your economic policies are gonna be and what they're gonna mean. Tell us. All you gotta do is articulate conservatism. Tell us how you're gonna make the economy grow. Tell us. Give us your policy. And that's not hard, folks. Conservatism takes care of that. Free market economic policy, takes care of that. It will happen. It's been proven. But in the midst of this decay, the schools are being abandoned, and that's just one example. There are countless others. People think their country's falling apart. Scares the heck out of 'em. And yet, when you specifically talk about blacks. How can they still vote for Democrats after what the Democrat Party has done.
All the Democrat Party's plans, I mean for 50 years, the race hustlers, the Jacksons, the Sharptons have been complaining and moaning and whining about the same stuff for 50 years. None of it's getting better. And yet they keep voting for the people who have assured them, "We're gonna take care of you. We're the ones that are gonna protect you from the racism and from the discrimination, from all the other stuff, all those horrors that await you out there. We aren't racist, and we don't discriminate, and we're gonna protect you." And yet their lives don't get better. They're relying on these people, not themselves, they're relying on these people to make their lives better. The Democrat Party isn't happening, and yet they keep voting for 'em.
And I don't think it's that they're voting for 'em. I think it rather has to do with what the image of Republicans is, or the image of conservatives is. In some cases it could be said, ah, they're just not cool. Obama's cool. Romney's not cool. He's stale white bread, not cool. Hollywood, that's cool. You don't see any Republicans there. You don't see conservatives where the cool stuff is. Cool stuff happens on Entertainment Tonight or MTV or Comedy Central. You don't see conservatives. You don't see conservatives anywhere where cool is, do you? In fact, it's such that if a conservative is someplace where it's cool the conservative looks like a guy from Mars portrayed as something that really doesn't belong where cool is. That's what I think a lot of this is wrapped up in.
It's no individual's fault. It's not that Romney isn't cool, for example, or it's not that George W. Bush wasn't cool, any of that. It's just the power of pop culture media for decade after decade shaping people's minds. But I think you go nuts if you intellectually try to explain or policy-wise, even, try to explain why people would stick with losers. Why do they stick with people and policies that are harming them. Then you realize, that's not what they think they're doing. They don't think they're voting for people that harm them. They don't think they're voting for people that are responsible for the decay in their neighborhood or in the country. They don't see it that way.
They see it getting bad out there, and these guys trying to stop it, the Democrats trying to make it better, but they really are afraid what the Republicans would do if they got back in power, because of all the lies and distortions that have been told about Republicans that haven't been properly refuted. Hell, hadn't even been attempted to be refuted in many ways. August 1st is our 24th year, and for each of these 24 years, I've had phone calls from African-Americans, "Rush, it's changing. More and more blacks are tired of the Democrat Party. It's changing." And it never does. Twenty-four years. The Democrats still get 92, 93% of the black vote, no matter what. And these people do call and they do offer these testimonials. And yet, the percentage of the vote doesn't change. If it did change by 5%, it'd be huge. If, for example, Obama were to get 88% of the black vote, or 85%, that would be an earthquake, if the others voted for the Republican.
And every year I've been hearing a transformation's taking place, and yet the percentages stay the same. And I've looked at it intellectually, 50 years, the 24 that I've been doing the program, chronicle the decay, the destruction, the breakup of the black family, and it's all brought about by big government policies. It's all brought about by the Democrat Party, and yet they keep getting the votes. (interruption) The last Republican to get a big percentage of the black vote? You mean presidential candidate? I can't name one. Oh, well, wait a minute, now. You misled me with the question. I thought you meant a majority. Nixon got 30% of the black vote. But that was because Sammy Davis Jr. endorsed him down there in Miami. Well, it was a factor. It was a factor.
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Of course, Eisenhower was a fairly liberal Republican and Blacks at that point hadn't been voting Democrat for as long as they have now.
“Why Democrats Get the Black Vote”
They get it the old fashioned way: they buy it. All the welfare bennies, affirmative action, and other goodies the government slathers the black community in are bribes, pure and simple.
Eisenhower was pre cultural revolution, and most blacks were voting Republican at the time. It was the Republican Party that was pushing civil rights and the Civil Rights Act, with considerable resistance from Democrats. At that time Hispanics were very patriotic to show that they were real Americans. The LULAC was considered to be a conservative organization. Things began changing, welfarism, public housing, the Vietnam war, and so on. Long story short, Blacks and Hispanics saw the benefits of redistribution and social equality. The Democrats bought them with taxpayer’s money.
The tragic thing is, they betrayed them with handouts.
The Black family has been harmed by all this.
Among other things, we need to ask ourselves how many Black families don’t even exist today, because Democrats fought for their right to eliminate their unborn children through something akin to genocide?
How many Black kids have been ruined, because people like Jackson, Sharpton, and other race baiters enabled the kids to destroy themselves, and told them to be proud of things that would?
How many kids lives have been ruined, because the government stepped in and replaced the man of the house with handouts?
It’s a national disgrace second only to slavery, and in some ways even more insidious, because of it’s stealth almost invisible nature.
The Great Society promised by Johnson, turned out to be anything but for Blacks.
> the schools are being abandoned
The author says this as though it were a bad thing.
I submit that it’s a GOOD thing.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
Lots of reasons but I would add now that democrats have the black vote, republicans don’t bother to do anything to get it back. They put their campaign resources elsewhere.
But yeah the dems bought the votes with social welfare programs. Failed programs but that’s the way of all liberal programs.
I think Rush has a short memory. When, Newt and the contract with America won Newt went pandering to Jesse Jackson. A conservative black man called Rush up and told Rush that he was mad as Newt should had gone out to the conservative black organizations. By Newt going to see Jesse was feeding the idea Jesse represents all black people. The republicans should quit pandering to the media anointed black leaders and go directly to black voters with a conservative mind.
“All the welfare bennies, affirmative action, and other goodies the government slathers the black community in are bribes, pure and simple.”
Yep.
And a culture and school system that taught them to be resentful.
“It’s a national disgrace second only to slavery, and in some ways even more insidious, because of it’s stealth almost invisible nature.”
Black people were strong, proud, and capable enough to overcome the legacy of slavery, but they may never overcome the legacy of welfarism. It has destroyed their collective and individual souls.
“You vote fo them Publicans, they gone take way all the freebies!”
Exactly. In fact, I believe government schools and compulsory attendance ruined the cities. Middle class parents who didn’t want their kids going to the crappy city public schools left for the suburbs. The only people left living in the cities were the rich, who could afford private schools, and those too poor to be able to escape. This trapped poor kids in rotten schools permanently.
You got it right! The destruction of the Black family by liberal democrats is unprecedented. They keep them dumb, they keep them on welfare and abort their children. When will more than 5% of Blacks wake up and return to the party of Lincoln? You know . . the party that emancipated them.
Eisenhower never came close to getting the black vote, the last republican to win that (Hoover) was when blacks always voted republican and only gave FDR 23% of their vote in 1932.
In 1936 blacks made an instant and so far permanent reversal to voting democrat, giving FDR 71% of their vote and never voting republican again.
Yes. Dispositionally, he was probably more of a Democrat, and quite possibly sympathetic to the (early, modest) goals of the New Deal. (He grew up in rural Texas and Kansas.)
But he joined the Republicans out of concern that FDR had been in office too long; including Harry Truman's two terms, the Democrats had occupied the White House for 20 solid years, and Eisenhower thought that was too much, and that the scales needed to be rebalanced.
He may also have known something about national-security issues growing in the Democratic Party, but I don't know whether he ever addressed that concern, which Venona will have discovered to top U.S. officials.
Too, Republicans had been walked around before, only to find out later that they had talked to the wrong black ministers and editors, and that the people who had the real power, the ones all the voters looked to, were elsewhere.
No surprise at all that the wards of the Federal Plantation vote for their masters.
Obama supporters sign them on the back.
I'd say they're the masters of the Federal plantation, and we're their slaves. After all, somebody has to pay for their freebies and racial preferences, and it's not them.
Good point. They’re only slaves to the democrats in as far as they have to vote for them to sustain their existence.
It was 39 percent, and possibly higher. Not a bad gain given Truman’s 77 percent in 1948. Also, the percentage of blacks who voted was very low. It is interesting that despite the segregation and disenfranchisement, the worst of which was occurring in the Democratic South, blacks sold out for so little.
Compare the percentage of black employment in government jobs versus the percentage in private sector jobs and the percentage of white employment in government jobs versus private sector jobs and you have your answer.
39% is a long way from winning a groups vote though. Eisenhower’s 1956 reelection was a good year for republicans, some polls even show that he might have or probably won the Catholic vote that year, which would be the first time for Catholics to vote republican and one of the rare times for such an event, in that reelection even Jews gave Ike 40%.
Democrats get the Black vote because post Nixon the Republican’s have a stated position (even if they rarely back it up) of reducing the size of goverment. Government is the one area where Blacks have far more jobs than their percentage of the population. Smaller government means fewer jobs for Blacks. I really don’t think its more complicated than that.
Because they are on the Democrat PLANTATION where there is FREE HOUSING (LOUSY), HORRIBLE SCHOOLS (but they are FREE)..FREE CHEESE (FATTENING), FREE MONEY (WELFARE.....you have money but no husband), VICIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS (slums and crimes galore, but HEY everyone is in the same leaky boat and you can all SCREAM about how it’s the REPUBLICANS FAULT that you are in this hellhole)!!
Because they are on the Democrat PLANTATION where there is FREE HOUSING (LOUSY), HORRIBLE SCHOOLS (but they are FREE)..FREE CHEESE (FATTENING), FREE MONEY (WELFARE.....you have money but no husband), VICIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS (slums and crimes galore, but HEY everyone is in the same leaky boat and you can all SCREAM about how it’s the REPUBLICANS FAULT that you are in this hellhole)!!
Because they are on the Democrat PLANTATION where there is FREE HOUSING (LOUSY), HORRIBLE SCHOOLS (but they are FREE)..FREE CHEESE (FATTENING), FREE MONEY (WELFARE.....you have money but no husband), VICIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS (slums and crimes galore, but HEY everyone is in the same leaky boat and you can all SCREAM about how it’s the REPUBLICANS FAULT that you are in this hellhole)!!
BINGO on that!! Blacks hve every job at hospitals and governments.
I believe that Ike and Stevenson split the black vote pretty much in both elections. Even the liberal IL rejected its Stevenson.
1956 was a bad year for Republicans. They lost more ground in Congress and were wiped out in 1958, which paved the way for the popular JFK, who still had less than 50 percent of popular votes.
Ike was born in Denison, TX, but never lived in TX until he was in San Antonio in the military for a brief time. He was reared in Abilene, KS. I don’t think he ever voted until 1952.
Even without the freebies, I think blacks would still vote 98 to 99 percent Democrat. It’s ingrained in them. Even rich blacks are Democrat.
Blacks once voted Republican- until FDR’s handouts bought them. Then Lyndon Johnson’s handouts made sure they stayed bought.
The Republicans lost 2 congressional seats in 1956 and the Senate stayed the same, so it wasn’t really much of anything in the Congress.
I was only thinking of Eisenhower of course, the presidential election, which went well for republicans.
What gave us JFK was his roughly 80% Catholic vote, and of course the black and Jewish vote and unions, the usual left wing “New Deal” coalition.
They have never voted 98% to 99% democrat, so those were unfortunate numbers to use as the normal.
I hear ya. Frankly, it makes me sad.
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