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Aug. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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At the end of yesterday's program, you know, we spent in the final hour yesterday.
By the way, the final hour of yesterday's program might be worth your while to go to Rushlimbaugh.com and revisit, listen to it, and read the transcripts.
We spent a lot of time in that hour focusing on millennials people that maximum age 30 right now.
These are these are people who in 2008 bought hook line and sinker, the entire Obama message of hope and change, transformation, utopia, perfection, the end of everything bad, and the beginning of everything good.
And of course, none of that has worked out.
It's just the opposite.
And there is this sweeping.
I keep using the word malaise or the word depression, but there may be a more accurate way to describe this.
There's just a nothingness out there.
There's just there doesn't seem to be anything solid, foundational that you can rely on to reverse course to turn this around.
I made the observation yesterday while attempting to speak positively.
I do not think that's unjustified polyannish.
There's every reason in the world to be optimistic as Americans.
There's every reason in the world not to fall prey to what the left wants people to fall prey to, and that's giving up, not using initiative.
I mean, there's there's been now that there's guilt associated with success.
There's guilt with driving a car instead of riding a bicycle.
There's guilt with anything about success or prosperity.
And even when you get it, one of the points I made yesterday, I know a lot of people that are very successful.
They've worked very hard to get there.
Even they don't feel like they thought they would feel as they were working towards it.
Even they are not robustly happy because it just doesn't seem right.
And a lot of people can't put their finger on what is wrong.
But I think one of the things I mentioned yesterday that is very troubling to me.
As I read things written by millennials, it's very depressing.
There are more and more of them having to go back home and live with mom and dad.
There aren't any careers out there.
The jobs that exist are part-time.
Health care, it just they voted for utopia, folks.
They voted the young idealistic Obama voter.
They they really believed all that hype that Obama represented something that had never before happened in American politics.
He was had the ability to unify everybody and get rid of all these old partisan arguments, get rid of racism and all these things that make the country a bad place.
And the world was going to love us.
We're going to end global warming, which millennials blame their parents for.
Millennials blame prosperity and capitalism.
That's what they've been taught.
And of course, there is no perfection, and there is no utopia, and there is no panacea.
And doubly, of course, liberalism is nothing but misery.
Liberalism doesn't even have any optimism.
Liberalism is known by the fact that it believes everything's getting worse and will continue to get worse, and only a powerful government can make life somewhat worth living.
Because on your own, you can't find reason enough to live.
It's destructive, and so forth.
And so the thing that finally hit me, and I've been on a constant quest to understand a number of things that really make me curious.
People say, you're silly for not knowing the answer to this.
Let's look at the millennials, for example.
I hear about how they're all depressed.
I hear about you know 60% of them voted for Obama.
They're all depressed.
They don't have a future.
They're not going to live the way their parents did.
You know, you've you've heard it all.
And when I first came across this, I said, well, didn't have a whole lot of sympathy.
You voted for it.
So why don't you learn from it and understand that what you voted for didn't work out and in fact has led you to feel the way you do.
And people telling me, Rush, that's silly.
They're not going to look at it that way.
I mean, look at look at the blacks in a minute again.
Democrat Party gets 90% of the black vote every presidential election, and look at them.
The Democrat Party's been promising them for 50 years to improve their lives.
And it isn't happening.
And yet they keep voting Democrat.
No matter what, they don't blame the Democrats.
Who do they blame then?
Answer in a moment.
It's not just America, it's not just Republicans.
Take us back now to the millennials.
And it's important because I think if these people could be reached, it would go a long way toward reversing the direction that we're in.
I really do.
Now it's always amazed me, so I developed the Limbaugh theorem, that after almost five years of a president with policies that have brought about this reality, this didn't just happen, but people think it did.
Obama and Democrat Party policies are largely responsible for everything that has people on easy.
No jobs, no high paying careers, no wage increases, health care a major hassle, health care as important to anybody as anything else in their life, which is, I think, a sad reality too.
But all of these things, whatever it is, no money, no job, no future, it's all the result of Obama getting 90% of his agenda.
The only thing he hasn't really succeeded here is reversing the second amendment and having gay marriage become a national reality.
Everything else he's gotten.
He's gotten all the spending he wants.
If he doesn't like a portion of a law, he simply ignores it.
The Republicans, for all intents and purposes in five years, haven't had the power to stop anything.
And it's worse than that, aside from a couple of instances, they haven't even really tried.
And yet, as you know by now, if you listen regularly, Obama totally in this group of people, the low information voters, the millennials, certain percentage of Democrat voters, Obama escapes any responsibility for it.
Any blame.
People, this is what flummoxes me.
This is what just blows my mind.
People have lost faith in the country, folks.
They have not lost faith in Obama.
Do you understand the importance of that, the profundity of that, not at me, the reality of it.
These millennials, these young people, these disaffected Democrat voters, everybody miserable and unhappy has lost faith in the country.
They don't think the country is good anymore.
They don't think the country's great.
They don't think the country's exceptional.
They don't think it's special.
They don't think that the country holds the answers.
In fact, their misplaced faith should be exclusively in Obama.
So the damage Obama is doing is even worse than you might think.
Not only are his policies transforming this country into a country it was never founded nor intended to be, not only are his policies literally depressing people and consuming them with negativism.
Obama's existence, his presidency, his policies have resulted in people losing faith in the country, not in him.
And that's dangerous.
Because that makes it much easier for Obama and any Democrat to continue to talk about changing the country if people have lost faith in it.
And there isn't anything wrong with the country as founded.
There isn't anything wrong with the country as it existed.
What is wrong is what's being done to it by virtue of Obama policies.
Now why have people lost faith in the country and not Obama?
You know, there are probably multiple answers to that question, but I'm going to give you a big one.
The Republican Party not pushing back against this.
I mean, we can do it on the radio fine and dandy.
But there's a political party making this happen.
There's a president and a political party and an ideological movement that is causing people lose faith in their country.
And there isn't a corresponding political party saying, no, this is a great country.
This is a wonderful place.
It's no different than it ever was, and you can make it better.
You still have opportunity.
You can still write your ticket in this country.
There isn't a political party saying that.
There isn't an opposition, opposition political leader saying it.
Maybe three or four.
Instead, the Republican Party's thrown in with Democrat light.
The Republican Party has somehow has concluded that in order to be relevant and have some elections come around that they win, that they've also got to do what Democrats do.
Because that's what they think you want.
Or they people that aren't voting for them want.
Such a mess.
If there had been pushback, if there had been political opposition to Obama, if somebody had been every day explaining to the American people who Obama is, what he's really doing...
What will happen if he succeeds?
There wouldn't be this massive loss of faith in the country.
That the opposition party has been paralyzed by race and by the media.
No criticism of Obama has been permitted.
It's all called racism and bigotry and what have you.
And so people who need votes to get elected Conclude that is nothing to be gained by offending people.
Even people that are never going to vote for them.
Nothing to be gained by it.
And so while people lose faith in the country, there's nobody telling them otherwise.
There's nobody telling them, no, no, no, you do not have to lose faith in the country.
What you're actually losing faith in is socialism, liberalism, the Democrat Party's ideology.
That's what you are losing faith in.
People have to be told they have to be instructed.
There's no pushback.
There hasn't been for five years.
I mean, not at the electoral party level.
And so the idea that people can lose faith in the country isn't challenged.
I don't even know how many elected Republicans would actually agree that that's what's happening.
But you cannot disagree with the fact that there is not a robust happiness, even among those who are succeeding.
Because the country isn't.
An individual, a business, whatever, maybe going gangbusters, doing really well, but the rest of the country isn't coming along.
It's just not the same as when you're creating 500,000 jobs a month and when incomes are rising, and output and productivity is going up.
Everybody senses that.
Everybody knows that.
And by the same token, everybody knows when everything is stagnant.
So prosperity and success have become the exception, not the rule.
People are losing faith in America.
And it's sad to say this is this is almost almost the uh the Alinsky objective.
The radical leftist anti-capitalist objective is to get more and more people losing faith in capitalism, losing faith in individual liberty and freedom and prosperity.
And Obama and the Democrats are writing a script every day, and nobody is countering it.
Well, not nobody, I mean, but in the media, but that's not the same as political pushback.
I'm not in Obama's arena, contrary to what everybody thinks I'm not.
Well, I mean, I'm in the arena of ideas, but look, I don't want to go through this again.
But that media talks, yeah, Obama's really cleaning a clock here with Limbo Limbo, he's only got three more years.
You give me three trillion dollars to buy listeners with.
You give me three trillion dollars to buy love where I can do it.
I can't compete with the Democrat Party.
I can't give them a phone, 99 weeks of unemployment, a flat screen TV, food stamps, I can't give anybody anything.
It's just the opposite.
My success is determined by how many of you spend money.
Obama, the Democrats couldn't score one day in my world.
And yet I'm lumped in theirs as losing.
Okay, to the phones we go, Python New Meiko.
Python, New Mexico says, Jay, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an honor.
I've been working at this deal for 25 years trying to get through to you.
And I just I told Mr. Snerty, I promised him I'd get right to my point, and I'm not gonna let him down.
And I just want to tell you, Rush, the American dream is alive and well.
And I want to encourage those people out there.
I can call them kids now because I'm I'll be 56 years old tomorrow.
Yeah, you're a spring chicken.
I I know it.
And I feel that way, Rush, because I got fight left in me.
And I wake up every dead dumb day ready to fight.
And it's not a negative thing, but it's just in me to move forward And pick myself up when I get knocked off and get back on the track.
And not to be afraid to change direction.
Yeah, but see, not everybody can do that, Jay, and therefore it's not fair that you can.
And you are people like you, look, I am not exaggerating.
People like you are guilted in school.
If you get better grades than somebody else, there's a guilt trip on you.
If you earn more money after graduating, there's a guilt trip placed on you.
If you go buy a car, they guilt trip you for that because you're destroying the planet.
You're using gasoline.
You ought to be riding a bicycle.
The Wall Street Journal has a a uh is it the Wall Street Journal uh I can't find it.
Um there's something out there today that that that uh uh an article on on millennials, the NPR NPR celebrating the fact that millennials are not buying cars or any of the material things that their parents thought important.
And it never occurs to NPR they can't afford to buy these things.
Buried down in the article, even NPR admits the millennials want what their parents had.
But the article is all about celebration, how wonderful, what wonderful people the millennials are for foregoing the material things.
They are praised for buying bicycles and giving up cars.
This is exactly what they face.
Seeking success is impugned, wanting what your parents had and more is guilted.
The opportunity still's there, just that the reluctance to seek it is what's changing.
Talent on loan from God.
And I have it, folks, right here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
This is an article from NPR.
And I would think a lot of millennials listen to NPR.
They've been conditioned to.
Well, that's the elite and uh well, their professors all did.
Did anybody make a big deal out of what?
Uh well, no.
In fact, when when I was in my twenties, nobody was even willing to take you seriously until you were 40.
You hadn't lived long enough to know enough to be trusted with enough when I grew up.
But you can't, Sternby, you can't if things change.
There used to be some things that were time on it.
I mean, the idea that you were really not going if you were in a in a situation situation where you're being paid by somebody, in other words, you're not an entrepreneur, you were not gonna really start getting high up on that ladder until you hit 40.
And it wasn't arbitrarily chosen.
It was the result of decades and decades of experience.
That it taught management people you have to live that long, that much experience.
You had uh you had to live that long to prove you stuck with things, that you didn't quit, that you didn't give up, that you didn't mind competition, that you could be trusted with more responsibility and uh and you were worth earning more.
There's an instant gratification that exists now and has for a while.
No, when I was in my twenties, nobody gave a rat's rear-end what I thought about anything.
Whether I was happy or not, whether I had heartbreak or not, nobody cared.
And Snurr, I know what your point is.
Why are we worried about these punk kids?
I know it's generation, it's Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z, Generation Zit, and now it's generation millennial and so forth.
There is a reason for it, and I will explain it to you.
We've discussed it on this program before.
Every generation of people has among them a sizable percentage who think they're in The last days.
Every generation has a sizable percentage of people who believe that times have never been worse.
Remember, most people's historical perspective begins when the day they were born.
They know from that day forward, backwards and forwards.
But things that happened before they were born depends on what they're taught.
Not important.
And so things might have been much worse in a civil war than they were today.
But nobody knows that because they weren't alive then.
Doesn't matter.
They're really bad now, Rush.
I'm changing.
This is it.
Well, I happen to think that this is somewhat important because the difference, snerdily, is that this generation is being told they got no hope.
This generation is being told they got no hope.
My generation, we were inspired.
We were pushed.
We were put through the ringer, the competitive ringer, it was tough.
Nothing, no road was paved.
I mean, it was it was I don't want to use the cliches, but I will dog eat dog and so forth.
But it's exactly, it was expected.
But there were pockets of people, I mean, everybody has uh failures around them that tell them they can't do this or do that.
But I know I wanted my own place, I couldn't wait to get out of home.
I wanted my own apartment, I wanted my own car, I wanted all that.
Now that's my point.
I got a story NPR, celebrating the fact that millennials don't want to own a car.
See, it's a good thing.
This is exactly my point.
The wrong things are being praised and celebrated and being said to be inspirational.
Back when when I grew up, there were just a bunch of givens.
You wanted to do better, you wanted to have a great life, you wanted to lived in America, it was possible, depending on how hard you wanted to work at it, what kind of ambition you have, you go for it.
Um it was hard, you're gonna fail along the way, everybody did, and some are going to do better than others.
Country was going to be fine, this is the way we live.
That what the the problem now is the reason that I am focusing on this, just to be selfish about it, we've got a whole generation of people here who don't believe in that America anymore.
You know, I was when I was growing up, all the things I was told about America and about myself, hard work, prosperity, whatever that meant to people.
Some people it means material things, other people it means you know, being the best at what they do.
Um, everybody defines happiness a different way.
But whatever it was, it was a given that it was possible.
It was up to you to get there.
Today, they're not being told that it's possible.
They're being taught that it isn't.
That's why it's important.
And furthermore, in addition to kids being taught that it isn't possible, they're being taught that if they do make it that there's something wrong with them, that they've cheated somebody, or that they've stolen, or that they've broken the rules or done something.
There is a stigma that is attaching to success today.
Wasn't the case when I grew up, and I you know, do not folks call me an old fuddy duty.
I'm not, this is not a walk to school and ten feet of snow story.
There is a genuine transformation coming over there.
This is a different country today.
We're no longer talking about people in terms of theory and warning them what will happen if the left continues to succeed.
It's not 20 years ago, 25, 30, 40 years ago, where we are warning them what'll happen, say if the communists succeed around the world.
It has happened.
We are living it.
It's no longer a prediction.
Now it's reality.
The left owns the culture.
They own academia, they own the media.
And they're doing everything they can to cement their hold by depressing every inspiration and hope among young people.
Nobody wanted me to lose faith in America.
I mean, the establishment.
Let me there was an establishment.
This may be a better way to say it.
In the 60s, 70s, there was an establishment, and I wanted to be a part Of it.
That's why I didn't wear blue jeans.
I didn't protest the war in Vietnam.
I didn't want to identify with the kids that were perceived as a trouble.
I wanted I wanted to be in the establishment.
I wanted to succeed at it.
Well, today, who's the establishment?
The establishment is the anti-America as we knew it.
The America is over.
The America is unjust, the America ill immoral, unimproperly founded.
That is the establishment today.
And there are people that want to be in it.
Everybody wants to be in the established whatever it is.
But I was the idea that was other than pockets, you know, individuals here and there, the idea, I mean nobody had lost faith in America, other than your random leftist here or there, your college professor or what have you.
It was still a minority view that the country was unjust and immoral.
It was a minority view that the country was improper and bogus.
I was never, at any point in my life, When I had a setback, I never blamed the country.
And I never once thought that the country was standing in my way.
I never once thought that the country was an obstacle.
And my point is people, kids are being raised today and being told today by people they admire.
So many rotten things that they haven't lost, they have lost faith in the country.
That was not a reality when I was growing up.
Nor any other generation.
I'll tell you, World War II, the Great Depression, there was no thought of losing faith in the country.
It was all about saving it, all about preserving it, all about growing it.
It's not the same today.
The left has had way too much success.
The people that don't like this country happen to be running it.
The people that don't like this country happen to be controlling education.
The people that don't like this country happen to be in charge of many elements of the pop culture.
And those are highly influential.
So you can sit in there and you can get mad that we're focusing on this group of young people and that group of young people when in the past they were on their own, and if they made it fine, and if they didn't, that's fine too.
It was up to them.
Nobody was coddled.
That's really what you're upset about.
You think they're being coddled today.
I'm not coddling them.
I think I think the very lifeblood's being sucked out of them, they don't even know it.
When they lose faith in the country, when people are comfortable teaching them, instructing them to lose faith in the country.
The left has managed to convince a lot of people that the U.S. is not worth saving, that the U.S. is not worth fighting for.
They've had a profound amount of success at this.
And this is another reason why there is this fog of depression that's just permeating everything.
And a lot of people don't understand it other than the economy's not great.
But it's just, it doesn't feel right.
Everyday life just doesn't feel right, even among people who ought to be robustly happy by past standards.
So that's why I mean each succession of young people has gotten more self-centered because we made them that way.
Life's about them.
They're told that at graduation.
They're told that the future's about them, everything, and they they think it.
They want that to be true.
Everybody wants to matter.
Everybody wants to be important.
Human nature.
But the messages that we used to get that were inspirational and uplifting and positive and can do, all of that's now been stigmatized.
And so now let me read to you before I go to a break.
I've got to take a break here.
Let me just read you an excerpt for this NPR story.
Why millennials are ditching cars and redefining ownership.
And take Zach Brown, 27.
27, a Los Angeles artist and actor who does not own a car.
Quote, I don't feel like I actually buy things for myself.
Like people who go out and buy clothes or buy music or electronics or things like that.
Most of my spare time is spent just hanging out with friends.
You don't necessarily have to purchase anything in order to do that.
Art supplies and food, that's a majority of where my ex money that I I don't spend on a car goes.
Brown does uh Brown is friend with uh with Rosenthal, somebody mentioned earlier in the piece, who finds herself spending her spare cash less on things and more on experiences.
I love going to movies.
I like going to concerts.
I like listening to music.
I use Spotify and I listen to Pandora, things like that.
But as far as buying things, I don't do that.
Because it's been stigmatized.
That's materialism.
This is right out of the communist manifesto.
It's stigmatized.
It's filthy.
It's selfish.
It's destroying the earth to own things.
If I buy a car, I have to buy gasoline.
It means I'm I'm a polluter.
So these people are being told they are virtuous, living lives of literal averageness and no remarkability about them, no risk taking, no fun.
There's virtue in all this.
It's just it's it's 180 degrees out of phase.
Now here's the final line.
The final line of peace at NPR.
NPR.
The simple pleasures and the bare necessities.
Perhaps millennials are on to something.
This is like those articles that suddenly began extolling the wonderful benefits of unemployment.
Once Obama came into office, you remember those?
How wonderful it was to lose your job because look at all the things you got to do.
Well, you got to reunite with your family.
And you got to travel.
That trip to France you never were able to take.
You could finally find time for it.
And all the friends you hadn't seen.
It was called fun employment.
You remember that?
So here we are in an economy being destroyed by Barack Obama, and his cohorts in the media write stories encouraging the millennials to just accept the fact that all they're going to end up with is the bare necessities and then the simple pleasures, and that's as much as anyone should hope for.
Well, I'm sorry, folks, that's how they live.
Those kinds of low expectations are why around the world so many people are trying to get here.
This is disturbing.
That's why ill snerdbo, that's why I am focusing and trying to talk to these people because nobody else is giving them a counter.
They're being lied to.
They're being told that there's virtue in not distinguishing themselves.
There's virtue in uh not a not accomplishing anything.
There's no stigma attached to that.
Uh achievement, success.
Those things really, they're not fair because not everybody is, and I know, a grown man, I mean, in LA, a grown man who doesn't want to have a car.
Do you think that has any roots in traditional America?
A grown man in New York it's another thing.
But even in New York.
Drive around in the city.
You'll find fine.
A grown man, twenty seven years old in LA, an actor, what's he gonna pick up on his bicycle?
Another makeup artist.
A grown man who thinks not only he does not want a car, he thinks there's virtue in not wanting one and not having one.
That's right, Mr. Lumbo.
That's a that's the way we ought to be thinking now.
This is how we will save the planet from global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
This is how these new castrati little sissies think.
Well, I don't know.
It's just...
All I know is that this kind of stuff is not what built a great country.
What?
A twenty-seven-year-old kid who doesn't want a car.
Tell we're not talking about John Wayne there.
We're not talking Hercules.
Who are we talking about?
You know, folks, I I made a little bit of a mistake.
Zach Brown, 2070 NPA NPR story, his preferred mode of transportation is not a bicycle.
It's not a car, it's a skateboard.
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