Today, Rush Limbaugh discussed my article The Democratic Party’s Civil War Is Here. Here’s some of what he had to say on his show.
Rush was discussing how Obama had destroyed the Democratic Party. One notable quote he used was this,
All the Democrats that are out there are a bunch of old fossils like Pelosi, like Reid, like Boxer, like Feinstein, Mary Landrieu, I mean, you name it. Let me give you a couple pull quotes from this piece. “But a political party cannot be constructed around two individuals (Obama and Clinton), as Democrats seem to be today.”
That’s an important point. The Dems used identity politics to reduce the party to two symbols of diversity. Obama and Hillary.
Then Limbaugh went on to discuss the leftward drift of the Democrats beginning with the Kennedy assassination.
The Democrat Party now — with the arrival of Obama and groups like ACORN, the old Democrat Party, what Balz is writing here about being hollowed out — is typified by these aging Jurassic Park Democrats, including Bill and Hillary and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, all of these names. They comprise what, for lack of a better term, I would call the Union-Thug Wing of the Democrat Party. These are the old party bosses, the Mayor Daley types that would use muscle and intimidation…
That one’s typified by Obama, and that is this new — relatively new, at least publicly new — wacko, extreme left, progressive Democrat Party, which is made up of community organizers. ACORN. I mean, you name it. Groups like this and Obama. The point about them is, I mean, they’re just as left, or just as leftist as the Harry Reid and Pelosi wing. But they have a different agenda about moving forward. Winning elections to them is cool, but they don’t have to.
Rush then went on to cite my article.
This new Democrat Party, there was a piece on this last week, as it turns out, and this guy kind of dovetails with the way I think about it. His name is Daniel Greenfield, and it was at… It’s Front Page. It’s David Horowitz. That’s it. It’s Front Page Magazine.
The material in quotation marks is mine. The rest is Rush’s discussion about the piece.
“The other Democratic Party is progressive. Its members are radical leftists working within the system,” and they’re disguised as bureaucrats. They’re disguised as college professors. They are disguised as community organizers. They’re disguised as news directors. They’re disguised as journalists. They are disguised as Hollywood producers.
“They are natural technocrats and their agendas are full of big projects. They function as community organizers, radicalizing and transforming…” They will not say something they don’t believe just to get elected, in all cases. They will push what they really believe, but they will do it in an unseen way. Winning is “a subset of their real agenda. Their agenda is to transform the country,” which is rooted in an active dislike for the way the country was founded.
They have no desire to game the system, to work within it to win. They want to wipe out the way the country was founded, and they want to transform it into a giant community organizer paradise and utopia. If they can do it by winning elections, they will, but if they don’t win elections, they don’t cry about it, and they don’t change anything.
They continue to work and undermine and subvert beneath the surface, disguised as average, ordinary bureaucrats or community organizers or civil rights coalition members or what have you.
That’s the real problem.
The left politicizes everything. Its officially political arm is just the tip of the iceberg that’s above the water.
It wields a great deal of power because it can directly or indirectly force people to do things on a level that few of its other arms can, but the power of its educational, entertainment and corporate arms is nearly as fearsome, and as long as it makes the regs, then winning elections is not in and of itself a defeat.
