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March 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, back on uh March the 7th, it was uh five days ago, as I was uh deep into show prep, I ran across this stuff fascinates me.
Uh and I think a factor in explaining it is getting older.
I've always wanted to be older.
Well, as a teenager, I wanted to be 21.
I never have wanted to be my age.
Because the way I looked at it, the older you got, the freer you got.
The older you got, the more independent you became.
And obviously the most the more self-reliant, but the more successful you became.
It just seemed that that, and it life seemed to be more fun.
I'm not one of those people.
I didn't go to college, four years of screwing around and all that.
I worked, and I worked every summer in in high school.
And so I've always been focused on work and oriented towards it.
Rather do that than anything else, but at the same time.
Uh the idea of having fun was something that was always deferred to me.
Something that you did later on.
Aside from liking the job, I'm talking about Syberitic pursuits, uh, not professional career pursuits.
And in my case, that is my first love, and that is what is most fun for me, is doing this.
But still, I've always wanted to get older.
Now that I'm older, I'm 63 now.
Now I'm I'm I have a different opinion of younger generations than I had when I was in the younger generation.
Not negative or positive, just different.
And I I find it fascinating because I care about future the country, and so I'm always interested in learning what the future of the country thinks.
Like the people for whom I'm writing these books, they are the future of the country.
And I don't mean in a commencement address kind of sense, they really are.
And like I told you yesterday, a friend of mine became a grandparent for the first time and sent a note, this is why we care.
And I know exactly, that's exactly why people care.
Kids' future, you want the circumstances to be the same or better for your kids and grandkids than you found them when you were their age and growing up.
So, since the future of the country is so dependent on the younger generation, the value base, um, their their intelligence, their uh level of knowledge, all that.
I find it fascinating now.
It's all part of growing, and it's it's all part of um continuing to expand my mind.
Even though half of it remains tied behind my back, the half that I use still has lots of room to be filled.
Now, for some reason, the millennial generation is intriguing to me.
I don't know why they're more intriguing to me than Gen X was, is maybe that I'm enough years older than millennials, and the millennials are also coming of age, they're
They're reaching adulthood at a truly unique time, unique era in the nation's history vis-a-vis citizens' view of and relationship to government.
And it is my hope that younger generations will decide on self-reliance and individuality and success and not turn to others for those things.
And by that I mean not turning to government, not becoming a ward of the state.
So that's why it interests me.
So whenever I run across a story, and I some people, I don't want to hear about damn millennials, Russia, just a bunch of kids, and they're going to make all those kid mistakes, they're going to figure it out.
Don't worry about it.
And some people say, don't talk about them.
You're just going to give them the big head, and you're going to make these 25-year-olds think they're more important than they are.
And that's not my intent is to assign to them the officious future of the country.
I'm just trying to get a handle on things.
Where we think younger generations are headed is where the country will end up, if at least if we can get as close as we can to knowing it.
So I found this story Business Insider, and the headline hooked me immediately.
Millennials are deeply confused about everything.
Now, I will admit, when I saw the headline, that buoyed me.
That headline encouraged me.
I would hope people are confused by what's going on now.
So then I say, okay, well, let me read it and find out what they're confused by or about.
Millennials or Generation Y, which by varying definitions includes you if you are between 14 and 34.
That's the rough lines of demarcation for generation Y or the Millennials if you're between 14 and 34.
And these millennials are the subject of constant obsession and worrying from the managers trying to hire them, the marketers trying to sell to them, and the parents and grandparents trying desperately to get them to call once in a while using the phone feature on the smartphones.
So what can we possibly learn that's new from the massive Pew Research survey that was released back on March 7th about the millennials?
The author of this piece, a man named Derek Thompson, and he says, actually, we have many things to learn, and mostly contradictions, which is about right when you're trying to sum up 85 or so million people in a handful of adjectives.
This generation, the millennial generation, is getting totally screwed by the economy.
But this is an illustration of the contradiction.
The millennial generation is getting totally screwed by the economy, yet they are the most optimistic generation in the country right now.
Now that stands to reason when you are in your twenties, just coming out of college and you're all fired up and ready to go, you are naturally optimistic.
Tradition has been that's when you're optimistic because now you're finally on your own, you've moved out, those who have, uh and here comes adulthood.
Here comes the things that everybody associates with with adulthood.
And most reasonably adjusted people are optimistic because most people think they're gonna make it.
Not everybody.
Most people think they're gonna be a success.
Some in the millennial generation expect it rather than thinking they have to work for it, but still there's optimism.
Yet they're optimistic while they're getting totally screwed by the economy.
So that makes sense of this.
And what does that mean?
Well, there aren't any jobs.
No matter what their degrees are in, there aren't any jobs.
They are faced with mountainous student loan debt.
They are faced with runaway costs for necessities.
The odds are that they are not gonna be able to afford the things they want anytime soon, which is standard operating procedure.
But remember, these people have expectations of getting what they want a lot sooner than you and I did.
I mean, even though I wanted to get older, even though I couldn't wait till I was 21, I didn't expect, this is just the way it was when I grew up.
I didn't expect to actually quote unquote make it until I was 40, because the culture, the society just didn't let you outside of the exceptions to the rule, the inventors, the entrepreneurs, and what have you.
But if you were salaried and working as an employee climbing a ladder, you had to have enough time in to prove your worth, reliability, and all that, and that took you to age 40.
This generation expects it much sooner than that, and we have an economy that's not going to be able to provide it for them.
Another report that came out, uh Bureau of Labor Statistics found that uh unemployment rate for young people is still way above what's being reported for the national average.
These people, unemployment rate 13.5% between people between 15 and 24, 12 percent unemployment between ages 20 and 24.
It's just awful.
So why are they optimistic?
And they're they admit they say they're optimistic about their finances.
And of course, one of the answers is they're young.
As I have explained, they are also the most technologically connected generation in modern history, and also another contradiction, the least trusting.
Now, on the surface, this doesn't make any sense.
Here's a generation that trusts its peers enough to meet random strangers in bars, are on websites, ride in cars with strangers, get on a train with strangers, or get in an Uber car with somebody that you don't know.
Visit a stranger's apartment that you've just met on Craigslist.
You're totally confident, sleep on their beds, do whatever you want.
But you don't trust them.
You still do it, but you don't trust the people that you are opening up to.
Again, a huge contradiction.
Which to me means that they are ripe for being reached in a cultural and political sense.
The millennial generation also has record numbers of single parents.
Another contradiction, they also have, according to the Pew Research, the most negative attitudes about single parents.
That stands to reason.
Maybe it's not a contradiction.
This generation has a record number of single parents and doesn't like it.
That's on one hand a contradiction.
On the other hand, it's good.
Single parenthood is a it's an economic death sentence for the vast majority of people involved in it.
It's just a ticket to nowhere.
So this is ultimately a potential positive.
Forty-three percent of millennials are non white.
That's higher than any American generation on record.
But since the slim majority of newborns in America are non white, also, it's much more fair to say that millennials are the most diverse generation of adults.
They're the only the most diverse generation in the country if you decide not to consider people under 14 a generation.
So it's there are all kinds of things happening for the first time to this generation.
All kinds of uh consequences and facts that they are dealing with that are happening to a generation-wide group of people for the first time.
They also are the most educated generation ever, and they are The most in debt because of it.
And this education isn't leading them anywhere because there aren't any jobs.
Go back to the unemployment rate for people in this age group.
There aren't high, in fact, it's not just that there aren't jobs, there aren't any career openings.
And yet they followed the rule.
Go to college, that's the ticket.
If you don't do that, you don't have a prayer.
They've done it.
They've gotten their parents in debt.
They're in debt.
They've invested all of these years in it.
Now they come out.
They're highly educated formally.
We don't know what kind of common sense they have yet, but they're formally educated, but they're in debt to the tune of being faced with a lifetime of paying it back.
The U.S. economy has never been bigger, but it is now accurate and truthful to say that it has never been harder to live better than your parents did.
This has been a concern every generation of parents has had.
Every generation of parents wants their kids to live better, to do better, to have more, to be smarter.
And it doesn't matter what demographic group you're talking about.
That is a standard wish every parent has.
Grandparents, too.
This the millennials think, and they're right.
This is it, it's that it's we have got to the point where it's not possible.
It's harder than it's ever been now to do better than your parents.
So the confusion continues.
Millennials, according to the Pew survey, are less likely to self-identify as Republicans or Democrats.
And they also have the highest approval rating of Congress.
They rate Congress approval higher than any other group of people.
Yet they don't self-identify as Republicans or Democrats.
That's rooted, I am convinced, in the idea of being an independent is somehow to be smarter and less uh closed-minded.
Uh more open-minded and more malleable.
They probably are more one or the other, but they don't want to admit it.
They oppose benefit cuts to Social Security, but they don't think there's going to be any for them.
Not sure about that one, but that's what it says.
And they voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
They want universal health care.
They're fine with bigger government, but they oppose Obamacare just like everybody else does.
Now they voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
They want univers this is this is a product of their education.
This is exactly what they've been taught.
And I'm I contend to you that when you strip all this away, the way they've been taught, the education they've gotten, the curriculum they've faced, that's why they are endlessly confused.
And I'll give you an example in a second.
I've got to take a break.
But one final thing.
These people, the millennials, the 14 to 34 demographic, do not give a hoot, according to the Pew survey about the environment.
They could not care less about it.
Global war how many of you believe that?
Most people think these are the people leading the charge.
They don't care about the environment as a political issue.
They are less likely to consider themselves environmentalists than any other generation, including seasoned citizens.
So I got to take a break.
I'll come back and get this the typical story about education in America today that would lead you to conclude why so many of them are confused.
Don't go away.
Okay, from collegefix.com.
Here's the headline: Feminist Studies Professor accused of assaulting teenage pro-life demonstrator.
A department of feminist studies professors been accused of going berserk after coming across a campus pro-life demonstration that used some extremely graphic displays, leading a small mob of students to chant tear down the sign before grabbing one of the signs, storming off with it, and then allegedly engaging in an altercation with a 16-year-old pro-life professor.
All of this was recorded On a smartphone, and the professor at the heart of this is named Mirelle Miller Young.
She's an associate, and get this.
Associate professor, whose area of emphasis is black cultural studies, pornography, and sex work.
And that is according to her faculty web page.
So what do we have here?
We have hyphenated name check.
Teaches multicultural nonsense, check.
Attracted to perverted and worthless areas of academic emphasis, check.
Instinct to lash out violently at those who disagree with her, check.
Resorts to violence when she doesn't get her way, check.
Logical conclusion, she is a mad cap leftist.
She has tenure.
She is teaching young skulls full of mush, inculcating them with this worthless dribble that their parents are paying through the nose for.
Now you might say, Russia's always gone on.
Not to this degree, folks.
The higher education curriculum has been in the process of being corrupted by militant feminazis for I don't know how long, but it is continuing to normalize what 10 years ago were the extremes.
The extremes ten years ago are the normal.
The extremes 15 ago are the normal.
A professor teaching a course in black cultural studies, pornography, and sex work on her faculty web page.
You don't think people being educated with this kind of dribble are not going to come out of school confused and thinking they've actually learned something?
And it's this is just one professor at one school with one particular area of the curriculum, and it's happening in all history.
They're corrupting everything.
And it's only the real world, can it fix them?
That's the question.
Now just one more thing on the pew center of people in the press on the millennials.
And don't get all bent out of shape about this.
The Pure Report finds that this millennial bunch are the only generation that prefers big government and more services to small government and fewer services.
However, there's a caveat.
And it is that research has shown that millennials don't really think of big government the way older generation people do.
And the conclusion here is what is important.
And that is that the millennials, and this is, I think this is common.
I don't think this is exclusive to them at all.
This comedy young people.
They don't like what they're hearing from either side.
They're smarter than everybody.
They don't like what they're hearing of the Democrats and like what they're hearing from the Republicans, which means that they are up for grabs.
And they can be, they can be uh persuaded.
Um but the the big government, it it what it equals charity, folks.
It equals caring for people, even caring about people.
And this is the, you know, I get hearken back to the exit polls from the 2012 election when I saw that in that first wave, cares about people like me, 81% Obama, 19% Romney.
I mean, that's it in a nutshell.
We talk about a Republican brand and where it's gone wrong.
Um then, of course, still blame the economy on Bush as a real political issue.
But leadership, the first presidential election in exit polling history where best leader did not win, cares about people like me did.
Challenge.
Here's Tim in Nina, Wisconsin, not far from uh Appleton, right?
Yes, that's correct.
How are you, sir?
Great to have you on the program.
I'm good, thanks.
Um, I wanted to talk about this election in Florida.
And I I find it it's there's really encouraging aspects when you look at the campaign financing that the last year it was reported that the RNC outrage the DNC.
And yes, Obama for America or organizing for action or whatever you want to call it, is outraising the Democrats.
On top of the Democrats trying to fund these campaigns.
Wait, wait, wait, I've lost you.
You're Obama's organizing for America outrage the DNC?
Yeah.
Okay.
How's that good?
Well, that's not good for the Democrats.
If they're gonna go into this midterm election thinking that they're gonna spend their way out of a out of their problems here, they're gonna have to go to Obama or for money.
And how do you not become a toxic candidate if you're getting money from Obama to fund your campaign and then running against health care?
Yeah, but I understand that.
But at the when this is one election, nip and tuck time, uh uh I organizing for America is Obama's group, and Obama's notoriously cheap and selfish.
He doesn't help other Democrats.
That's that's your point, right?
Yeah.
Uh but the Democrats, like I said, they've they've got an opening to also run against Obamacare now.
If they want to try it.
I mean, it's be much more difficult for them than the Republicans do it.
But but but they can do it, whether they've got any money or not, and they're gonna have they're gonna have money.
And look at in this race, is is your point also the RNC didn't spend a whole lot of money here?
Well, right.
They're they're sitting back on a bunch of cash yet.
Yeah, well, that hasn't usually meant anything good.
Um this again, this I'll tell you what this is shaping up to.
This is shaping up to be a 2010 election, where the RNC didn't they they were not a factor.
Now, the 2010 election was that the midterms were Tea Party, and and the Tea Party was not a big presence here, although they were demonized, but they are not a big presence in this district.
But it's similar in the sense that this was a bunch of people that got together, uh, Republican conservatives opposed to everything Obama was doing, and they stood up and stopped it.
And that's what happened here.
The Republicans remember they're just Chris Christie just went to see back and said, We've got to change the way we're doing it.
We've got to say what we're for.
We just can't keep getting along with what we're against.
Well, what happened here?
What happened here was this is totally a victory by somebody saying what he's against.
And in the process, he also identified what he was for.
The two things too do go together.
But your point about about money, you think the Democrats are not going to have enough money because if if if the DNC can't even compete with Obama's money and Obama doesn't share, then they're up a creek.
Is that it?
No, I I think they're really panicking.
And like when they had this all night get together at the Senate the other night, that's just you know, they're trying to ease other donors to get more money to them.
Well, that's true.
That global warming thing was all up again.
The global warming guys.
What was this guy's Steyr was his name?
Jim Steyr or something.
Is he said multi-billionaires, one of these Hollywood leftists, or hedge fund leftists in Hollywood.
And he um uh he threatened the Democrats look at you guys are not doing enough on environment.
You're not doing enough on global warming.
He threatened to withhold.
This guy gives them hundreds of millions of dollars in uh election cycles.
He threatened to withhold it.
So they did this talk-a-thon.
So Tim may have a point here.
I I think the the problem most everybody has is and it's unavoidable.
The media is what it is, and there's not much escape from it.
Got Fox and Talk Radio.
Everywhere else that you look, if you want to find out what happened on the Malaysian airliner, you're also gonna hear about the latest greatest thing Obama's doing.
The latest greatest thing Harry Reid's doing, the latest greatest thing the Democrats.
And you're gonna get the idea that they are swimming in fat city.
And the truth is, I think just the opposite.
But the media doesn't obviously is not gonna give any indication of that.
So an election like this comes along, and reality trumpets everything that the media has been saying and creates an entirely different uh reality for people, and everybody's shocked.
I think there is so much disfavor against the Democrats right now, among people that are not even particularly political.
This Obamacare is bigger than anybody, particularly in the media will acknowledge.
This is a total disaster.
It this The Democrats made this health care for all these years of talking about it.
They've convinced people it is the most important thing in their lives.
It's the one thing separating them from bankruptcy.
It's the one thing separating them from death.
It's the one thing separating them from misery and happiness and so forth.
And here comes this big fix, and it's nothing but cancellation after cancellation after cancellation.
People are scared to death.
And those who haven't been canceled can't afford what it costs.
I'm telling you that the national sentiment against this in the Democrats is twice or more what you are going to believe if your only source is the media.
And that that is everybody's source.
The media is what it is.
I mean, there are alternative places, but they're by no means with the penetration or size, other than this program, of course, which is why they single-handedly targeted for destruction, but it failed because of you.
Anyway.
Tim, I appreciate the call.
It's a good point.
I gotta take a quick time out, folks.
Back with much more before you know it.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones we go.
This is D in Thousand Oaks, California.
Welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
I wanted to share with you something about uh my son who is 10 years old and in fifth grade.
He goes to public school here in California.
Um last month, his class put on a play called The Thirteen Colonies.
Um my husband and I went to watch the play, and we were horrified by some of the songs they were singing in the play.
It was supposed to be about the 13 colonies, but it was actually bashing white Europeans.
Um just an example.
Um one of the songs they sing in the play was called The Europeans Are Moving In.
Um, one of the lines, this was from the perspective of the Iroquois Indians, and one of the lines from the play was they're shaking our hands and taking our land.
Our patients is now wearing fin.
They unload their ships, stay back in their vans, we give them some corn, they give us the mumps.
The Europeans are moving in.
Um wait a second.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who do not have young crumb crunchers going to school and have heard me talking about the Rush Revere book series.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that I have been referencing that these kids are taught.
They're the multiculturalists have gotten hold of the curriculum and they're teaching that the Indians, the Native Americans, were at one with nature, and they were peaceful and they were here, and it was their land.
And here come.
Here came these white Europeans, and they brought all of this disease.
They brought syphilis, they brought smallpox, and they took the land from the Indians, and then they killed the Indians, and then the Indians nevertheless helped them and taught them how to eat and taught them how to grow corn, and they had Thanksgiving, and they still kill the Indian.
And this is the crap that's taught, and this is exactly why decided to do these books.
Right.
Um was this the first evidence of this curriculum that you had seen?
No, my son comes home um every day and he tells me, listen to this liberal stuff.
My teacher said today.
So all you can do to combat this is to teach your children at home, teach them the truth.
Um, luckily for Christmas, we bought him the Rush Revere on audiobook, and he's getting the sequel for his birthday.
My brother's buying it for him.
But it was disturbing to me that none of the other parents watching the program seemed alarmed at all.
Everyone's just smiling and you know, watching their kids sing these disturbing songs, and my husband and I were just horrified.
We're sitting there shaking our heads.
We we just can't believe it.
It's just Well, you know, the parents are just so proud of little Johnny.
He's actually up there on stage singing, and he's overcoming stage fright, and he's with his schoolmates, and he's in a play and isn't it cute.
And uh, what's being taught uh hell the parents may not even know.
They depending on their age, they could have been taught the same stuff.
Particularly in California, you're just you're just uh you don't know.
Thank God for people like you, and and you're you must be doing great job.
Your your your son's ten and is already able to recognize the BS.
Oh, definitely.
He hears he hears an earful every night at home.
So we're teaching him the truth.
Well, now, are you gonna do anything about it with the school?
Uh I just feel like it's pointless.
See?
See, so you ask why aren't the parents there didn't seem upset?
The parents are afraid that anything they do, any objection they raise, is gonna end up in action, punitive action taken against their kids.
Bad grades, life made difficult in the classroom, especially if you complain about a particular teacher.
I've heard horror stories that make this one seem like powder puff.
Uh and and the parents are outraged, but they're afraid to do anything about it because they don't want the school mad at the kid at their at their kids.
So they they they do what they can to counter it at home.
Ergo, again, look, I'm just this is exactly why writing these books.
It's exactly why.
It's to counter this kind of multicultural crap.
With the truth, nothing more.
And it's not presented in an overtly partisan political way.
It's just an entertaining way for kids in that age group, 10 to 13 to learn the truth.
I'm really glad you called Dee.
Thanks very much.
Well, I'm gonna tell you Snerdly get her name and address.
Don't hang up because I want to send you an audio version of the second book.
Um and heck, I'll send you the real book, too.
We'll send you the book and the audio version when Snerley gets your address.
Thanks, Dee, for the call.
Thousand Oaks, California.
That's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is it.
Over in the can, Finey.
But there's always tomorrow.
We just have a 21-hour break.
Sit tight.
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