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Nov. 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Great to have you.
It's L. Rushball, the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy to have you along.
Let's see.
This is uh we're just uh thirty-three days away from um a global orgasm for peace on December twenty-second.
A couple of people in Marin County living in a houseboat have this idea.
I don't think they've considered all the potential problems with this.
Uh we'll be exploring some of those as the uh days and weeks ahead uh uh mount up.
Anyway, phone number if you want to be on the program is 800 two eight two two eight eight two, and the email address is rush at eIBnet.com.
I want to expand a little bit on what I was saying in the previous segment about conservatism versus liberalism, and how if you want to get independent voters back, uh do what has worked.
How did how did Reagan Democrats become Reagan Democrats?
Now the left will tell you because Reagan found a way to turn those white racists into Republicans.
But that, of course, is typical of liberalism, condescension, and arrogance looking down at everybody.
Uh that's not what happened.
Uh Reagan touched into their souls, it touched their souls, and and Reagan uh found a way to uh connect with them uh in ways they related to.
And basically that's conservatism.
If you'd missed the previous segment, let me just set it up, recap it actually by very briefly telling you what it is.
Conservatism and liberalism can be divine defined very simply.
Uh conservatism looks at average people and sees mountains of potential, wants only the best for everybody, because that's how you get a great country.
Liberalism looks at the average American with contempt, sees hopelessness, no chance whatsoever of that person becoming anything without the assistance of liberals and big government and so forth.
Now I want to illustrate this in a in another way.
Just to show you how conservatism and liberalism actually actually are and how the liberals uh end up uh in succeeding in some cases, misdefining conservatism.
We're working on a special premium offering for new subscribers for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in America today.
And this premium is called What's at Stake for 08.
And in this premium, we're still putting it together.
We're still writing it, we're still conceiving it actually, and we're we're trying to identify those things issue-wise culturally and politically that are at stake uh in the presidential race in 2008 and on and beyond.
Now, we we've got a number of subjects uh that we are looking at.
We're looking at foreign policy and domestic policy and these kinds of things.
But let me just focus in on one.
I think it's clear to say uh that we have a cultural rot in this country, and we have had for a while.
And every time we think we can't be shocked, we are shocked.
Every time we think we've descended to the depths to which there are no more depths, we find and plunge into a new one.
Uh latest example, I guess, would be the O.J. Simpson TV show in the book, and has everybody outraged.
Now you can look at that as an isolated incident, and you can you can you go, whoa, well, well, that's horrible, and you get all bit out of shape about it, or you can take the larger view.
There are small minds and big minds, and I think the small minds react to individual episodes as though that's all they are.
They don't put them in context and look at what came before them and what the current episode of cultural rot, whatever it is, may lead to next.
But there is clearly a cumulative effect of the declining cultural rot that is a g exist existing in this country.
You can lay blame for it on a number of things, and I don't want to go there right now, but let me just give you an example.
And I'm gonna take a big risk mentioning this, as you know, because this program is not listened to by critics.
It is reported on by critics who will report only what they think can damage this program if they get it out to people.
But I'm gonna say it anyway, because I do the program for you, not for them.
One of the things that's always bothered me in this country is the whole notion of racism, the fact that it's our original sin, and we're never going to solve the problem.
The reason we're never going to solve the problem is because it's become a business to people.
Race has become a business.
It's become a way for people to get wealthy.
It's become a way for people to become famous.
It has become a way for people to have P positions of uh power, uh, or seats at a political party's table of power.
In other words, there are people that don't want the problem solved because they profit from it too much.
But if you're a true conservative, and you see cultural rot anywhere, it has to bother you because it's your country that you're looking at.
So you you uh you have this optimism about you, and you know that it doesn't have to be that way.
So how can this how can this change us?
The first thing to do uh is be honest in identifying the problem.
Now I read a piece by Stanley Crouch, I think it's posted on the Drudge Report.
He is a columnist for the New York Daily News, and it's entitled uh Memo to Black Men Grow Up.
Stanley Crouch is black, he's a musician, uh uh music critic, is a renaissance man, he's he's accomplished.
He probably will not like me saying this, I'm ruining his career by uh by praising him.
But he has been writing for the longest time of his horror and disgust over the lack of ambition and maturity in the young black male population, eighteen to thirty-five, is I think the age group that he categorized it as in his uh column today.
And one of the things he points out is that the role models that are available for these people are the wrong ones.
Rap stars, athletes, uh Hollywood actors and actresses, and it seems to him that their pursuit in life equals a fancy car, a big crib, a big house, uh uh having some way to relate to rappers and so forth.
He said this is just it's it's tearing the culture apart.
And he's talked to a number of black women in the same age group, who say there's a shortage of decent black men out there because they're just they're perpetually 15.
And now, in mentioning this, uh had I not quoted Stanley Crouch, had I used my own words for this, uh the immediate reaction of liberals, you racist.
You're looking at black people, look how you're seeing them.
And that kind of that that stunts uh conversation about this is nobody wants to be called a racist.
And nobody wants to be called names and have their character assassinated or um assaulted in this way.
It's never stopped me, as uh you know, and and it won't.
But the fact is it's distressing in in that group, and and and by the way, it's not just them, there are all kinds of examples of this that uh you could give and and and sanct for people, but it's distressing that with all of the successful black people, all the successful Americans, all d forget race, that for some reason those who ought to be role models aren't.
In fact, they are impugned and laughed at and made fun of.
The left, the lip the liberals among us, will never ever dare criticize any of this because it's exactly what they want.
They like the chaos, they like the failure, they like people not reaching their potential, because they make their grade by blaming all this not on those people, but by uh on others, such as conservatives for being racist and and having uh uh circumstances set in place where people can't succeed because of their race, so they have to go the direction that they are going.
Now, in the process of discussing this, what gets missed is what gets lost is that people like me, and I guess Stanley Crouch, and I don't know, I don't know what of his political ideology is.
We look at this and don't like what we see and wish it were better because there's far more opportunity in this country.
I mean, what are the odds you're gonna grow up to be a rap star?
And if you succeed, what's the odds you're gonna end up being in a rank uh in a gangster rap gang or what?
What are the odds that you're gonna become that big, high paid athlete?
The odds are slim to none given the percentages of uh people in this country who make it in in such areas, and yet those aspirations seem to be the dominant ones.
Well, there are far better aspirations to have, as we all know.
And when talking about this and encouraging this, this is the quintessential definition of what I mean conservatives want the best for everybody.
But it's misinterpreted.
Oh, condemning black culture, racism, not understanding that these people have had a tough life and a tough existence ever since slavery.
They have no other recourse, Mr. Limbaugh.
They have no other choice.
It's not true because there are millions of other blacks who have gone a different route.
They are in a minority, and they too are criticized and laughed at, put down, called Uncle Tom's or what have you.
It's a frustrating thing, but it's it's I think it's a distinction that continues uh uh necessitates accurate speaking and writing about.
Um when you have two competing ideologies, one which wants to perpetuate the chaos, perpetuate the less than possible achievement, versus one who seeks the best, hopes for the best, and wants to establish the circumstances so all can achieve the best, whatever that is for them, based on their ambition or their desire.
It seems to me a no-brainer.
And yet people on my side of the aisle are called the mean ones.
We're called the uh the the extremists and the racists and the bigots and the hobophobes and so forth, when it is just the exact opposite.
But when people hear this properly explained, everybody wants the best for their country.
Well, again, uh not everybody does, and that's the point.
Uh, but there are still enough people who do that you can make a majority out of them when it comes to elections and then uh implementing policy.
The left is never going to go away, and they're never going to change their tactics, and they're never going to change the definition of who they are.
But there are people out there who float who are not ideologically uh committed every day, and they they are you can attract them uh with the with the right set of philosophical sentences, words, articles, what have you.
And this is what Ronald Reagan tapped into in creating the so-called Reagan Democrats.
They were conservative all along.
It's just that nobody in their party was.
And Reagan came along and touched their souls and touched their hearts as Americans.
Shining City on the Hill.
We have a rendezvous with destiny.
The definition of America is greatness.
The concept of American exceptionalism.
Liberals will refute that and shoot that down at every opportunity because they think it's the exact opposite.
So we're putting a number of these uh uh different ideas together in this uh in this special report, this premium for the next issue of the Limbaugh.
Well, it's a holiday premium, uh called What's at Stake in 08.
And this is uh going to just be one of another thing that we're we're talking about is uh when you when you look at the we've had four basic wars, four major wars in this country.
They had a revolutionary war and a civil war uh and the two world wars.
We look at the first two.
We were fighting ourselves.
Civil war was against each other, revolutionary war, we were say parts of us were fighting ourselves.
World War I and World War II, that's where a lot of people learned, hey, there are a lot of things in life larger than just me.
There are things larger than life than just us.
In Iraq, what has happened, and even to a certain extent the war on terror, and we will develop this in much greater detail in this uh in this special report.
But what's happened is that the left has succeeded in taking a concept, the war on terror and the and the war in Iraq, as something larger than ourselves.
And and the vision of it is certainly is a peaceful world, uh, a world where a declared stated enemy is uh is brought to justice, uh, and that enemy's power is reigned in.
All of a sudden, that's not what this is about anymore.
The left has succeeded once again, while all the while claiming Iraq is in a civil war, they've actually created one here amongst the American people.
We're at war with ourselves over the whole concept of defending ourselves.
Which is sad, and it's a bit sick.
Well, these are the kind of things that need to be discussed and talked about within a conservative ideological framework.
A, it's interesting, B, it's informative, C, it's educational, and D, done right, it's inspirational and can be a winner again.
It's just, it burns me up that uh that people who got elected uh on this whole belief system of conservatism failed to articulate it after they got elected, failed to govern Uh using it and uh basically failed to even talk about it in this last election.
The philosophical discussion of all these things was nowhere near uh what it should have been in this last in this last campaign.
It can be again and it should be, and it'll be a winner.
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What's at stake for 08?
Here's something else to throw into the mix.
Uh I'm not sure where this is from, but it's uh it might be AP.
I'm not not sure.
Bye-bye to secret spy program.
Why the fate of President Bush's eavesdropping program is dangling by a thread.
Republicans who limped back to Washington for a lame duck congressional session last week found a host of marching orders from President Bush.
But perhaps none more urgent than this.
Before Democrats take control of Congress in January, they must pass legislation authorizing the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program.
His plea for a legislative stamp of approval on the controversial spy effort is an important priority in the war on terror, Bush said.
And the response he got was deafening silence.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist quickly dispatched aides to put out the word on Bush's request, it ain't gonna happen.
You look uh why do the Republicans lose?
There's a whole host of reasons.
This one's certainly in the mix.
Our last Congress in the majority never passed legislation authorizing warrantless wiretapping.
Uh and now Bill Frist, who's out of there, tells the president it isn't going to happen during the lame duck session.
Everybody knows what this means.
It means it isn't going to happen because the Democrats sure aren't going to pass such laws when they run the place.
Uh and so an important tool, the Democrats set out to destroy this.
Why?
This is what I was talking about earlier.
Uh it's hard for people to understand.
There are people in this country who believe our country is the big problem in the world.
They are globalists.
They identify with the Western socialist democracies of Europe.
Uh they they want us to lose.
There is there is something uh energizing to them about losing.
It'll turn us into not a superpower, but just a single member of the global nation.
They're obsessed with guilt.
Uh they are obsessed with uh a lot of hatred and uh and rage, and they have wanted to kill this program.
They've wanted to grant Al-Qaeda uh essentially a bill of rights.
They want to prosecute the war on terror in court because they have so many liberal judges here.
They've tried to strip power from the commander-in-chief.
This is a classic illustration of how elections do matter.
Uh so lots at stake.
And then while while we get news like that, we're also, and I predicted this, I warned you people about this several weeks ago, even leading up to the election day.
Try this story for the Christian Science Monitor.
American paychecks rising again at a pace not seen since the 90s.
I think the Democrats aren't even in control yet.
I guess what's happening is that employers out there are so happy that the Democrats won that they're granting wage increases left and right at rates and paces not seen since the 1990s.
When who happened to be in office Bill Clinton?
American paychecks rising again at a pace not seen since the 1990s.
I'm telling you, folks, prosperity's just around the corner.
They can't continue to report all this negative bad news except out of Iraq.
They can't do that.
Now with Democrats in power and Hillary on the horizon, uh you you're gonna you're gonna get uh puzzled.
Why, how when nothing's changed, substantively, everybody's attitude in America has suddenly changed.
And it will not be the case.
This is a drive-by media example.
Here are the drive-bys driving into the crowd, launching their little salvos here, designed to erase all the tumult and chaos they caused in the election campaign and the whole year about how rotten the economy will forget all that now.
Everything's wonderful now, and they'll get you feeling all good because you believe what you hear in the media uh even more than you believe your own life experiences.
Your life experiences are great.
Everybody said their consumer confidence was up, and yet people had negative vibes about the economy.
Wonder why.
Well, when you're pummeled for a year or more every day with how rotten the future is, how gas prices are going sky high, whatever you want to name as an example.
You can't help but have an effect on people.
Now it used to be that they took them a lot less time.
Walter Cronkite was able to defeat the country in the Vietnam War in one day.
It took them three years this time to turn public opinion on the Iraq War to the point that it affected an election.
They don't have the monopolistic power they used to have, but they still have the power.
Anyway, get ready.
You're you have no idea how great your country is.
You have no idea how great your life is, and the Democrats aren't even in power yet, folks.
This will show you what you can continue to do if you just elect them.
Who cares if they even serve?
Oh, yes.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution.
So CNN, at the same time that I am uh I'm going through all the great news that's now being reported about the economy and everything's upbeat now.
We're just we're gonna kill the spy burger.
It's wonderful in America.
It's just fabulous out there.
CNN is in the middle of what wasn't a 10-minute puff piece profile of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
And a pull quote from their piece, and I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen.
Barack Obama is the most important politician to come out of Illinois since Abraham Lincoln.
He's been in the Senate, what, two years?
Most important politician to come out of Illinois since Abraham Lincoln.
This is going to shock and displease Senator Durbin.
It also ignores Everett Dirksen, which takes me to another area.
How many people in this audience do you think know who Everett Dirksen was?
I'll bet you more in this audience know who he is than in your average college classroom percentage-wise.
But, and that's that that leads to the another area we're looking at here in this what's at stake in 08.
The public education system in this country is abominable in many ways.
I think one of the most profound ways that it is contemptible is its treatment of American history.
There's been a distortion of it using the multicultural agenda.
The people that discovered this country were the original racists, sexists and bigots.
They brought environmentalism, syphilis, and all these sorts of things.
The greatness of people who helped found this country and led this country early on is hardly mentioned.
It's very insignificant in terms of the history of this country.
The whole concept of American exceptionalism is nowhere to be found in your average public school, social sciences, or history.
Curricula.
And it's it's evidenced, I think, by pop culture.
You know, I've got this Stanley Crouch uh piece here.
Well, I had it here.
Now, what did I do with this?
Did I put it on the bottom of the uh I just printed it?
This happens to me more often than I can possibly explain.
I think I've used it in a hammer, and I put no, didn't put it on the bottom of that stack.
Wait, wait, wait, here it is.
Let me just share with you some of what Stanley Crouch says.
It's it's um says last week I was in a studio in Midtown in Manhattan, where a popular program for black youths was being filmed.
I found myself surrounded by black men ages 18 to 35, and I was appalled.
As a father with a daughter nearly 30 years old who's never been close to marrying anyone, I was once more struck by what my offspring describes as a lack of suitable men.
She's complained often about the adolescent tendencies of young black men, as will just about any young black woman when the subject comes up.
Now, those who believe that America is perpetually adolescent will point at the dominance of frat boy attitudes among successful white men and will say of the black hip hop generation, so what?
How could they not be adolescent?
They're not surrounded by examples of celebrated maturity.
The society worships movie stars, wealthy athletes, and talk show hosts, and these are not the wisest and most mature of people.
There is more than a little bit right about that.
Our culture has been overwhelmed by the adolescent cult of rebellion that emerges in a particularly stunted way from the world of rock and roll.
That simple-minded sense of rebelling against authority descended even further when hip hop fell upon us from the bottom of the cultural slop bucket in which punk rock curdled.
Hip hop began as some sort of Afro protest doggerel and was very quickly taken over by the gangster rappers who emphasized the crudest materialism in which the ultimate goal was money, and it didn't matter how you got it.
The street thug, the gang member, the drug dealer, the pimp, became icons of sensibility and success.
Then the attitudes of pimps took a high position, the pornographic version of hip hop, in which women became indistinguishable bitches and hoes made a full court press on the rap aesthetic.
At the TV studio, as I watched and listened to those young men, each of whom seemed to be auditioning for a lifelong part as a man child, I discussed this phenomenon with a black woman in her forties, who's a writer.
She had worked for rap magazines, magazines that had focused on black women and in black television.
Her analysis was quite direct and could be profoundly true.
Her profession and being the mother of a teenage daughter has made her pay close attention and forced her to give these issues a good deal of thought.
The way she understood it was that these young black men don't see growing up as having any advantages to it.
One is either current or one is either old fashioned and outdated.
The only success they can think that they can believe is in hand is by either athletes or rappers, young black men, so they hold on to adolescents and adolescent ways as long as they can.
She also said, I'm sure many knew of Ed Bradley, but they didn't identify with him.
He was too sophisticated.
They identify with the overgrown boy who's everywhere and who's getting over.
He's got a lot of cash, plenty of girls, lots of jewelry, an expensive car.
To them, that's the world, or that's the world they want to be a part of.
So what could be done to make adulthood seem attractive to young black men?
That's a good question.
From one end of the country, listen to this now.
From one end of the country to the other, adults sleep in the street for nights on end, as though they are homeless, in order to have choice places in line when playstations go on sale.
That alone gives us more than an indication of how great a problem we find ourselves facing.
And that, you couple this with the OJ thing, the infatuation with uh with pop culture, you look.
I mean, come on, mention the names.
Lindsay Lohan, who cares?
Paris Hilton, who cares?
Who is it that people are aspiring look like and be?
Now you can say, Rush, this has always been the case.
The Beatles and this and that, but but previous generations, and maybe the sixties have all grown up and grown out of it.
Even I, ladies and gentlemen, I remember when I started in Radio 60 as a disc jockey.
And, you know, I like top 40 music of the day.
I think it's fascinating to go back and listen to Beatles' music.
And my parents were a all of my friends' parents.
They were beside themselves.
It was the end of society as we knew it.
And it was simply the long hair.
And the jiggling around, and of course, later on the rumors of uh drug use and this sort of thing.
But if you look at the lyrics of early Beatles music, I want to hold your hand, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um I saw her standing.
It was the most innocent stuff.
And it was also uh uh performed by orchestras, the melodies were just beautiful, the Holly Ridge strings, I remember had a couple of albums on Beatles music.
That's when my mother liked it.
But at the same time I'm listening to all this stuff, she's got Frank Sinatra and the King Sisters, and I said to myself, I am never, I am not going to become an old fogey.
I'm gonna be listening to my music for as long but I grew it in the 90s when I became 40, what became top 40 and what became popular music left me behind.
So we all grow up is the point.
We all get beyond it.
Crouch's point here is that certain people among us aren't, because for whatever reason they don't want to live long, Or they don't think they will, and so they have to get it all now.
You want to talk about this in great detail.
Why is that?
Is it really fair to blame rap music?
Or is rap music just a symptom?
How about if you were an impressionable, susceptible young black person in this country the last thirty years, and your parents happen to think Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and the civil rights movement are to begin an end of the world.
What do you think you're going to hear growing up about your country, about your past, and about your future?
And you think you might have a little anger and rage?
And do you think, well, I can't get what I want going to college?
I can't take the prescriptions that this country is offering for everybody else because I'm going to be beaten down and I'm going to be stopped by racism, and I'm going to be my my there's going to be a cross burning in my front yard or what have you.
So the path of least resistance is what you see on TV.
Well, hey, these guys have made it, and they've made it as a counterculture act.
Rap, gangster rap, and so forth, so it becomes uh, you know, a sick form of uh I don't know motivation, inspiration uh for people, and they seek that route as a way again, because they don't think they have a chance of getting here any other way.
Which takes us back to conservatism and liberalism.
Um I I've I tell you folks, I don't know too many conservatives, if any, who daily inculcate their kids with the idea they can never make it in this country.
Now I know some parents are you know conservative not everybody's ideological, and I know some parents don't do it right, and I know some parents constantly beat on their kids and tell them they're never gonna amount to anything.
Um in a static circumstance, just for general principles.
Some people are mad, some people are not good people.
But in the if you if you get into these households for ideological identity is a factor in the family identity, I'll guarantee you that you'll find far more often than not in these liberal households, be they union households or whatever, you'll find more negativism, more despair, more predictions of doom and gloom.
You'll never gonna make it, son.
There's people out there that aren't gonna let you.
Unless you become rich, whatever whatever the stereotypes are.
But on the conservative side, uh that is where you'll find people who are educated and uh and raised to be the best they could be.
It is what families want for their kids.
I think actually that's universal.
I think I think most parents with these rare exceptions want the best of their kids, but some of them, in the process of wanting it, get treated to a bunch of negativity from drive-by media and other activists, and they themselves come to believe it's not possible in this country.
And that's what they teach uh and what they inculcate.
And it is at this point that the alternative method I mean, Ronald Reagan got 49 states, I don't know what percentage of black vote he got.
And I keep I look, when I hearken back to Reagan, I'm not wanting to go to the past.
And don't make that mistake.
I'm not I don't want to turn the clock back, as you people know, I look forward.
That's why when the OJ thing came up, it's a symptom.
I I I I don't have the energy to get upset about that and that alone.
It's what led us to the OJ system uh Simpson's circumstance of last week and what it pretends for the future uh that that more interest me.
It's just a symptom.
But when you look at Reagan and and his message, that's a message for the future.
Uh it it was a message for the future then, and it's been squandered by people who inherited it.
And it's time to claim it back for the future, because we believe it's the simple best way to organize ourselves and to uh have a great country and provide opportunity for the most Americans possible, particularly those who want it.
Uh quick timeout.
We haven't done Wrangle yet.
See, Wrangle in a draft seems so inconsequential to me right now in disgust, because I know what he's doing.
I can explain I can explain to you in in two minutes what Wrangle's doing, and it's not about having the draft back in because you want to take a bet that we don't get it?
You you want to you you think we'll have the draft?
Yeah, okay, well, if we're not gonna get the draft, well then what is he pushing it for?
That's the question, and we'll deal with that at some point before the show ends.
I gotta get some calls in next, though.
We'll do that right after this.
Okay, Ed from Wyand.Michigan has been holding here for the entire program.
Ed, welcome.
Nice to have you, and I appreciate your patience.
Thank you, Rush.
Megados from Down River WyDotMichigan.
Hey, listen, I got a question for you at Thanksgiving, about Thanksgiving.
But before I do that, can I say hello to my mega uh from to my uh nephews who are big deal fans of yours and they can understand?
Sure.
Uh Stevie and uh Dagwoods in Atlanta and my son's Nate and Doug, uh who had to leave Michigan for uh better jobs uh in Atlanta.
But um my question is are you going to tell your story, your Thanksgiving Day story?
Uh you're gonna not you're not gonna be here on Wednesday.
And I was looking forward to hearing it, so what's gonna happen?
Yeah, we'll do it on Tuesday.
It's a it's a tradition on this program, the real story of Thanksgiving.
I wrote about it in my second book.
Sold two and a half million copies, nothing comes close to selling that many these days on the nonfiction list.
Uh the books uh see I told you so.
And yeah, we'll do it tomorrow since um uh I will not be here on Wednesday.
Uh about fifty family members arriving for Thanksgiving weekend, and I gotta coordinate all that, because I can't put them all at my place.
Uh so there.
No, I can't.
You no, I can't.
I probably no, I probably couldn't wouldn't be comfortable.
Um no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
No.
Anyway, they're they're scattered uh around the island here, so what do you say, Brian?
Uh you know, I I am amazed at the personal questions I get from this.
He wants to know how do I decide which members of my family are staying on my property and which aren't.
And th there's a reason he's asking that, and and you don't know what it is.
And I'm not even gonna mention it to you.
Um just let me just put it to you this way, Brian.
I came up with a way that has people so satisfied and happy, they all can't wait to get here.
I'm looking forward to it.
They have all never been here at the same time before.
And many of them have never been here at all.
So this is gonna be cool.
You know, Thanksgiving is the family holiday, I think.
It always is.
Um here's uh Paul in Stockton, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Ross Diddles from Spanos Country.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I just want to make the point that I agree that the cultural rot has a lot to do is a symptom.
I think the real root cause or one of the one of the major root causes is just the decline and fall of responsible fatherhood.
Yeah, I'm a father of two boys at 14 and 18 years old, and I absolutely see myself as their primary role model.
And, you know, every boy that ever gets in trouble, and it's mostly boys that get in trouble and do all the things they do, uh, every one of them has a father.
And it's that fall and decline of fatherhood that we see in our society, I think is a real root cause.
Well, you know, if we start this discussion, everybody's gonna have a different answer and different theory, and they're all gonna be partially correct.
Uh and some are not gonna even accept the notion that there's a cultural rot, that this is just symptomatic of all uh American generations, that the i in every generation the uh uh the older members generation look at the younger members and look at what they're interested in and what they're heading,
and they say, well, gosh, they have no hope and they have no prayer, and yet we still haven't reached that point where a generation of children has not outperformed its parents.
Liberals have been warning of this uh ever since Ronald Reagan was elected.
We still haven't reached that point where the potential, the opportunity, I mean it it's you know, my I've mentioned this countless times.
If my father died in 1990, he would not believe my life.
He i in any aspect of it.
He could not to him, success was staying with the Kansas City Royals for thirty years, eventually earning forty-five or fifty thousand dollars a year, becoming a vice president getting a company car.
But that was his that was his um uh the formative event in his life was a depression.
And and that that is is what he envisioned as something that was that was worthwhile and and successful, and there'd be nothing wrong with that.
But he is I'm just telling you from his standpoint, he would not understand.
He'd love it, don't misunderstand, but he would not, and he'd be very proud, but he would couldn't relate to it.
Uh my mother got experienced a little bit of it before she uh before she passed away.
But uh my my point is that despite all the talk of cultural rot, it is there, um we still have an advancing society with economic opportunity for one and all.
Still, I'm not saying the problems don't exist, but sometimes they are exaggerated.
But even if they are exaggerated, they nevertheless can be improved.
And they need not be, this rot need not be as deep as it is.
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