Posted on 11/09/2015 3:43:36 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Right here in the New York Times, even today. Paul Krugman -- who hates everything conservative, hates everything Republican, and despises personally Ronald Reagan -- has a piece called, "Despair, American Style."
"A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are 'down on America,' and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with reality." Do you see how devoid of reality this is? We have 94 million Americans not working, and Krugman here writes of job growth at rates not seen since the nineties?
Need I remind you of the news two weeks ago that half of the people who work in this country make less than $30,000 a year? When you read Krugman describe the US economy, do you see any evidence of it? I mean, when we have a roaring economy, and when there's job creation left and right and all kinds of growth, there's generally also a feeling of euphoria or happiness or well-being or contentment that propels it. It's not the Republicans who are the grumpy cats down on America; it's the Democrats, the college campuses, the professors.
The anti-American sentiment is found exclusively on the left in this country. Pro-American sentiment, we own it. Pro-American sentiment -- how great this country was, how great it is, how great the founding was -- it's all us, folks. We're the only ones. We're the last ones left who believe it and who teach it. And to the extent that there's negativity, it's because of what's being done to it. By that I mean: The country. There's an all-out assault on the founding of this country, on the traditions, the institutions, whatever you want to describe -- all of these great things that are under constant assault as unjust, immoral, unfair.
We have done more to reciprocate for slavery and racism than any nation on earth, and if you didn't know any better you'd think we hadn't done diddly-squat just by reading the news any given day. We have had affirmative action. We've done quotas. We have turned this country upside down to be fair. We have engaged on the basis of sympathy. We've engaged on the basis of, "We feel so sorry for you," which is I think the crux of the civil rights movement to this day. We have the soft bigotry of low expectations of American minorities.
It's the left that owns the plantations of thinking. It's the left that assumes people can't do well on their own. It's people like Krugman and the people he props up and supports who believe that minorities and others are incapable of making the right decisions in life, and that's why we need big governments making decisions for people, because the people are not to be trusted. The people aren't smart enough, the people aren't worldly enough, the people aren't sophisticated enough. They're not gonna do the right thing.
Government has to it for them, under the guise of protecting them from themselves. The contempt for average, ordinary Americans' home is the Democrat Party of today and the American left. And yet here's Krugman writing about Republicans "down on America." Who is it that runs around apologizing for America every chance he got? Barack Hussein O, last I looked. It's Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party, which every time they upturn a rock find something wrong with this country from the beginning days, from the get-go.
It's they who have said they need to transform this country. So Krugman admits that there's despair out there. Here's his next paragraph: "Yet there is a darkness spreading over part of our society, and we don't know why." And I'm sure they don't. I'm sure Krugman hadn't slightest idea. In his world, why, this is the greatest this country's ever been! We have first African-American president! Why, health care! He actually wants to write about how great Obamacare is and how well it's doing.
It's bankrupting people. It's closing businesses. It is reordering the way people live their lives. Obamacare may not even be able to survive on its own without a rewrite. We just had that story last week from a bunch of Democrats who think so. It's absolute disaster, as is most of the Obama administration. The reason why there is a "darkness" spreading over our society is because there is no push-back to any of this. The reason there is a darkness is because over half the country does not agree with what is happening to it, and always believed that the people they vote for, the Republican Party, would stand up and stop it -- or at least try to.
And there hasn't been much of that at all. That's why there is a darkness. That's why there is a despair, because the political system is letting people down. They have gone to the polls dutifully. They've gone to the polls loyally. They have voted. They have done everything they can to stop what's happening here, thinking they are electing people who agree with them and are gonna stand up to Obama and say, "Stop! No more." Instead, what happens?
The people they elect end up helping Obama accomplish what he wants to accomplish to one degree or another or joining him if it happens to be something like immigration and amnesty. Our country is being overrun, just like Europe is being overrun. The American people know that it's not an accident and it's not something that cannot be stopped. It could be. There isn't a willingness to stop it. There is a darkness spreading over our society because the people who live in this country have figured out that what they want is not of any concern to people in Washington.
Illegal immigrants' concerns are more important to people in Washington than they are in the desires and wants of the American people. There are so many things 180 degrees out of phase, I couldn't list them all if I started here for the remainder of this program. But Krugman's column indicates a giant disconnect. So now we take it to the campus. If we got such a roaring, great economy and everything's doing so well and Obama's done so well, why all this unrest on campus, Mr. Krugman? Why all this anger at Ferguson, Missouri?
Why are these things going so off the rails if this country is so great and Obama's done such a great job that everybody's got a job and everybody's happy and we're roaring forward? Why this anger? And what's really puzzling about it is the people who are angry are the people who are winning. The people who are angry are those getting what they want. The University of Missouri president just quit. You want to bet that there's not any newfound happiness this afternoon, tonight, or tomorrow on campus at the University of Missouri?
You want to bet the unrest continues?
You want to bet all kinds of agitation continues?
You want to bet expressions of anger, unfairness and white privilege continue, even though the university president was gotten rid of? The people winning are the ones angry. The people winning are the ones unhappy. The people winning are the ones protesting, burning, tearing down. The people winning are unhappy because even when they win they don't get what they want, because what they want is not attainable. What they want's the elimination of opposition. This is all about getting rid of Republicans, getting rid of conservatives, eliminating them as a powerful opposition force -- in any way -- on campus at the ballot box, in Washington, you name it.
That's one of the driving forces here.
But beyond that, the left gets what they want in Indiana. They get what they want with the legalization of marijuana. They get what they want with the legalization of gay marriage. Now we're on to transgender rights. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, whatever it is cultural overthrow they want they're getting, and with each victory they become angrier and more miserable. Why is that, I wonder? I don't know about you, when I win, I'm happy. Haven't won much lately, so I don't know what it feels like lately, but I guarantee you this. When I do win, I do not get angrier, and I don't want to tear things down. And I don't want to destroy or ruin people when I win. They do. Figure that out.
Why, it was just a few years ago that we heard Michael Sam was embraced by the entire campus and the entire city of Columbia, Missouri, because the people there were not racist, they were not homophobic. Why, they were advanced. They were culturally way ahead of the bitter clingers. Mizzou was a campus showing the way, the light of the way. Why, we had a gay football player. He won awards. He was gonna be drafted into the NFL and he was embraced and loved by what, in less than two years, has become a place of white privilege and dire racism and bigotry and sexism and homophobia. What happened in these two years? It's not just Mizzou, either, folks.
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RUSH: Now, back to this Paul Krugman piece, this is instructive, too. It's a good think piece. He goes on to describe some of the elements of the despair in the country and he talks about something, I've mentioned this twice, did not get to the details of it, but there is an overabundance of death occurring in 49 to 54-year-old white people in America, not because of disease. They're dying. They're dying more rapidly than they ever have in that demographic and nobody can understand why. That's just the headline. There are many more details, but I don't want to get into them right now because of time constraints.
Krugman references those deaths and says, "So what's going on?" In a recent interview some guy he talked to "suggested that middle-aged whites have 'lost the narrative of their lives.' That is, their economic setbacks have hit hard because they expected better. Or to put it a bit differently, we’re looking at people who were raised to believe in the American Dream, and are coping badly with its failure to come true." He's acknowledging that the American dream is not coming true for ever more and more people, and in the same column he's writing about how wonderful things are, how great things are. How there's so much health care. How there's so many new jobs. And yet the American dream isn't coming true and people are dying and gee.
And here's his conclusion. "At this point you probably expect me to offer a solution. But while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble, I’m not sure whether they’re enough to cure existential despair." Existential despair means existing despair over current-day circumstances. Look at this. Here you have the leading economist of the New York Times who actually thinks we have universal health care. We don't have universal health care. We have promised universal health care. We've got sticker shock health care. We've got health care that people had no idea was gonna cost this much and can't afford it.
The death rate is no mystery.
Increasingly SSRIs have been prescribed to that age group. Like all antidepressants, SSRIs can cause an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviors. They also carry a risk for increased hostility, agitation, and anxiety.
“[Krugman] is acknowledging that the American dream is not coming true for ever more and more people, and in the same column he’s writing about how wonderful things are, how great things are.”
Noble Prize Winning Logic!
I will never understand the Liberal mind. Ever. Totally disconnected from Reality.
Rush nails another one.
Mr. Krugman. When the economy and jobs are booming, you don’t find 100 people sending in and otherwise applying for one ten dollan hour job. That is what is happening in the real world.
Krugman has long been garbage.
Nothing has changed.
THis is the Barf-o-rama written by that idiot - teaching schoolkids the idiocies of socialism..
Excellent.
This is a good point w/r/t all age groups, including the protesting collegians of Mizzou and Dylann Roof and Jared Loughner and the Ferguson rioters.
People, ever so many people, aren't "normal" any more -- they've been drugged, with psychoactive drugs and other pharmacy whose psych effects are ill- or un-defined.
Even "normal" Americans are not free of chemical alteration of their bodies and minds. And I write this as a sixtysomething who partakes of several scrips a day.
Beta blockers affect mood and perception? Gee, who knows? Just choke down the scrip and write a check.
In a recent interview some guy he talked to "suggested that middle-aged whites have 'lost the narrative of their lives.' ....
But that was the whole idea of the Left, wasn't it? To break it off in those guys, those new-generation Archie Bunkers? Because they didn't deserve their "privileges", right? Yank them out of their lives and throw them on a giant stinking garbage heap through concerted political and economic action by the Left .... and by the topsiders, the Masters of the Universe, to "reproletarize" the middle class as was done in Argentina and make the lives of the rich and powerful relatively richer and more powerful. To thin out traffic on the roads for them, to broom the Unwanted Inconvenient People out of the "good buildings" and better stores. To push them back down into the workers' canteens and ghetto grocery stores, the back alleys of an East German economy.
Isn't that about it, Paul? Serving minorities as a way to attack the best people in the world? To break the white middle class, durable enemies of despotism and the most successful people on earth, back down into the ranks, to turn them into your clients and biddable heyboys?
You need to find a photo of a lamprey or some other disgusting parasite to do justice to Krugman.
Paul Krugman doesn’t get it... Liberals worked to make our country a hellhole. I’m betting the next ‘surprise’ is middle class whites stop having children.
No wonder folks are getting really, really interested in the Donald.
How old I must be! I recall when married men were VERY happy to find a job paying ten dollars a DAY because it would support a family! Now ten dollars won’t buy a fast food lunch for two and soon it probably won’t buy lunch for one. If not for the boom in crude oil production in this country we probably would be paying ten dollars for two gallons of gasoline or less. I remember when it would buy more than FIFTY gallons. Yet some people still keep insisting that somehow things are far better than they were when I was a child.
I once saw an image of young Paul Krugman, it must have been from 1968-69... what an amazingly smug little teenaged ratweasel.
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