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Andy McCarthy opines on Rush and race:

I’m hunkered down on some projects and just heard about the phony attacks on Rush by the race-hustlers extraordinaire, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. I know Rush has big shoulders and he’ll handle it just fine. But everytime one of these stories comes up, which is all too often, I can’t help but think it says a lot more about us than whoever happens to be in the cross-hairs. Why do Sharpton and Jackson have careers? Why aren’t they shown the door for serial racism and dishonesty? Why does anyone give a damn what they say? Why does the press treat them like they matter when they’re a walking, talking parodies?…

…There’s only one way this nonsense ever goes away: When we say “enough!” and tell the race-baiters their time is up. It’s too much of an industry, so it probably won’t happen tomorrow. But the Sixties ideal is crashing and burning before our very eyes, and I think it’ll take a lot of its warped obsessions down with it.

Unfortunately, this stuff won’t go away no matter how much or how often we say, “enough!”. It can go away, however, if we say “budget cuts”. You see, by one means or another, the left is largely funded on the tax payer’s dime – either directly via government grants, or indirectly through tax breaks for donating to leftwing causes.

We actually send taxpayer dollars every year to Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider gets taxpayer funds…supposedly to help people, but no matter how you slice it, it frees up funds for Planned Parenthood to then go about putting political pressure on the system to advance abortion. We’re paying for them to fight against the laws we pass to place common sense restrictions on abortion. We also consider it equally worthy to send money to Catholic Charities as to the Environmental Defense Fund – we pay for environmentalists to pressure government to restrict our freedoms and increase our cost of living.

On and on it goes like that – Southern Poverty Law Center, Code Pink, PETA, ACLU Foundation, NPR, etc, etc, etc…all tax exempt and donations are tax deductible…and while all of these groups will claim non-partisanship, does anyone want to say that they ever, even in a million years, advance anything center/right? These groups employ liberals who attack the center and right at every opportunity and who follow the party line rigidly – they might as well all be in one organization, because they all work together to advance the left. And we’re subsidizing them!

So, we need to adjust things – first off, to stop all government grants for leftwing groups, secondly to change the definition of “charity” to actually mean “a group which does charity work”. What do we mean by “charity work”? You know – getting out there and actually providing some physical help to the suffering. Not “advocacy” – advocacy never filled a single belly. If you want to do it, fine: but do it on your own dime. If you really think it important, then you’ll gladly sacrifice yourself to do it.

Once we get back in to power, de-funding the left will have to be a major effort – in fact, its a lot more important, in the long run, than passing things like tax reform, spending curbs, etc. It is the means by which will force the left out of politics – the left has never been popular and was never able to advance seriously in American political life until it got its hand in the taxpayer’s pocket. If we can de-fund the left, we’ll have ensured the dominance of the center/right – which is only natural, as America is a center/right nation. A center/right nation which has, unfortunately, paid leftists to undermine itself.

In addition, getting the liberals out of their well-paid sinecures will force them to get real jobs…and once they experience life in the real world, they’ll start to modify their asinine views.