Obama: Rich People ‘Will Say Whatever It Takes to Keep Their Stuff, to Maintain Their Privileges’

RUSH EXCERPT:

OBAMA: “OBAMA: "Because, the truth is, making this country better has never been easy. It has always been a fight. For every two steps of Progressive change forward, a lot of times we take one step back, conservative retrenchment, that's what happens, that's the pattern every time we pull ourselves closer to our founding ideals that all of us are created equal, and are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. As soon as we start moving in that direction, the status quote pushes back. You win the right to form a union, then people try to bust your union. You fight and win a higher minimum wage, and then Congress just doesn't raise it for a decade. You win the right to vote, people try to make it hard for you to vote. The powerful and the privileged fight hard to keep what they and they will try to make you angry and cynical and distracted, and they will try to exploit our history of racial division or ethnic division or religious division. They will try to get us against one another. They will tell you, everything will be OK if it wasn't for those folks who don't look like you. They will say, whatever it takes to keep their stuff, to maintain their privileges, even if it's not fair, especially if it's not fair. They like it that way, even when it hurts the country, even when it puts people at risk. It's a cynical kind of politics, but frankly, sometimes it works.”