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RUSH: Here\u2019s Leo in Minneapolis, as we go back to the phones. Hi, Leo. I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just wanted to get back to what you\u2019re saying about how it\u2019s dangerous and sad that people are cynical about these threats in the Middle East, and I think that that gets to a broader pessimism and cynicism in American life and culture today. Like in the economy, for instance, a lot of people either aren\u2019t looking for jobs or think that the best job they can get is the new 30-hour workweek jobs, the temp jobs and I think that that broader pessimism is the thing that\u2019s actually the greatest problem facing the country. I think people don\u2019t believe that they can make it, and that\u2019s sad, in my opinion, because America has been a great nation and can still be a great nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) All right, now, this is interesting, despite the sigh, I only sighed there because of the breathing pattern, independent of your call. It was not a sigh of frustration. Actually I\u2019m very excited about this. ‘Cause your point is that you think young people, and maybe a lot of people, have no optimism about their future in this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, especially young people.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Especially young people. Okay. Why? Now, we just had news last week, a record number of Millennials, that\u2019s the age-group 18 to 28, I think it is, are living at home, 21.5 million of them are still living with their parents.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that a lot of Millennials look at this economy and they are having trouble getting jobs either because they got a degree which is not necessarily useful in the real world or because just the economy\u2019s tight or they are living at home with their parents and they don\u2019t think that it\u2019s possible for them to be able to do well and to be able to get a good paying job and to live the American dream, essentially.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s examine this. Let\u2019s take your premise. A lot of young people, and I\u2019m not arguing with you here about the cynicism about government. I think that\u2019s real, too, but I want to focus on your theory or your assertion that young people have no optimism about their future, about their success. Why is that? Because didn\u2019t they get the president they voted for?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sometimes you get what you ask for and you don\u2019t want it, but I think that a lot of them didn\u2019t vote for Obama last year. Obama lost a lot of support from young people last year. A lot of people didn\u2019t turn out to support him, and I think that as Republicans and conservatives, we need to be the party of optimism. We need to be the party of things can be better, we can make things better, and I think if we do that we\u2019ll be able to help restore the economy and make America better because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I agree with you a hundred percent. It\u2019s called conservatism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: And there is a huge shortage of that in Washington.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Major shortage of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But it needs to be articulated like that. It needs to be articulated, “We can make this economy better. We can make America great again. We can make your life –“<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. But Obama said all of that. That was part of his campaign in \u201908, and it was part of his campaign in 2012. Look, I\u2019m not shouting at you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the Millennials voted for Obama like crazy. I don\u2019t care what their turnout was in 2012, they, as much as anybody, young people for one of the first times in American electoral politics, a presidential race, young people did show up. They elected this guy. Now, if they\u2019re sitting there all depressed over the fact that there\u2019s no economic future, how in the world do they not associate him and his party with that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because it\u2019s the Limbaugh Theorem exactly as you say. The media doesn\u2019t associate him with that, and young people, especially young people spend a lot of time on the Internet and they read various left-wing blogs and such —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that, but the guy\u2019s been president — I know the Limbaugh Theorem. Just let me walk you through it. We\u2019ve got five and a half years in, we\u2019ve got people going to school coming out indebted for the rest of their lives for their education, and as you said, some of their degrees with worthless in terms of practical application. They were idealistic. Obama was it. He was the answer. They reelected him. I\u2019m at a loss to intellectually understand. I know they go to the Internet and they see all this rampant liberalism everywhere, and I know what they think of Republicans, and I know what they probably think of conservatives, but despite that, how can they not be upset with the policy makers of the moment?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think that they\u2019re really paying attention. I think that a lot of young people don\u2019t listen too much to what\u2019s going on in politics, and they just hear someone say, “Oh, Republicans are horrible because they hate gay people” or something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: God knows what.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. Or they\u2019re opposed to gay people getting married or —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Whatever the rhetoric of the day is. And I think that part of the reason Obama won is he said those things. He was lying, but he said that we can make the economy better and that he would able to be the great unifier and such, and I think that that\u2019s part of the reason he won, is he said that and people believed him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019m gonna tell you something. They\u2019re living in a reality. If you\u2019re right, if they\u2019re depressed because they\u2019ve got no optimism about their economic future — I guess I\u2019m putting myself in their situation — in the past, you know, I\u2019ve maybe been more politically aware than people my age, particularly when I was younger, but I certainly did associate the policies coming out of Washington in the day with the economic circumstances of the country. I never thought that a president was trying real hard to fix something and it just wasn\u2019t working. I always thought the president had the ability, because my formative president was Reagan. Look what Reagan was able to do. I\u2019m bothered \u2019cause I know you\u2019re right. I know you\u2019re right, and yet these people that you\u2019re talking about are angry at people who haven\u2019t had a thing to do with their plight.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that you especially probably paid lot better attention to this than most people of your age. I think there are people my age who I know who do pay attention to this and do understand. It\u2019s just that unfortunately there are not enough of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How old are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m 18 years old.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry. I thought you were in your forties.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m a young person. I\u2019ve been listening to your show for a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All right. For some reason, I just assumed you were a dad, I don\u2019t know why, it\u2019s the sound of your voice, it\u2019s nothing more than that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you\u2019re actually speaking for yourself and for others —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019m speaking for what I see among my peers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Well, don\u2019t you just feel like wringing their necks when they start talking this way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it just bothers me, and no matter how much I try and explain it to them, I often feel I just can\u2019t get through, they don\u2019t seem to understand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What kinds of things you tell \u2019em?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I try and explain to them how the economy in the past has always been grown by capitalists, essentially, by people who had a great idea and didn\u2019t listen to people saying they couldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you ever told \u2019em, “Hey, there\u2019s a recession, but you don\u2019t have to participate. You can go out there and make anything you want, hard work, get out there and try”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I have said that. I didn\u2019t necessarily use those words, but I have said that hard work and effort —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What kind of reaction you get? They\u2019re cynical about it, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: A lot of people agree with me. Some of them say no, it\u2019s pointless, because I think they\u2019re cynical about everything and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I gotta take a break. I want you to hang on, Leo, because I\u2019ve gotta take a break. It\u2019s frustrating because these people are voting for the people that are doing this to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back with Leo in Minneapolis. Leo is 18, and I didn\u2019t know that when we started the call. You\u2019re very articulate, Leo, and the quality of your voice sounds to me like you were a father talking about your impression of young people rather than one of \u2019em. I\u2019ll tell you what I think just in a really distilled way to explain this. I think the young people you\u2019re talking about who are depressed, have no optimism about their economic future, I think they hate the Republican brand more than they might blame Democrats for whatever\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you on that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: That\u2019s what you\u2019re talking about when they read the blogs and they read everything on the Internet and all this leftist, never-ending assault on what they think Republicans are. Republicans are anti-woman, they\u2019re anti-gay, they\u2019re anti-gay marriage. They\u2019re anti-young people doing what they want to do. They\u2019re anti-marijuana legalization. They\u2019re no fun. They\u2019re a bunch of stuffed shirts, fuddy-duddies, you know, old-fashioned, rich white guy racists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you. That\u2019s exactly what I see. And I think getting back to what you said earlier, when I tell people or when someone tells someone that they can in fact make it, I think it\u2019s easy for them to listen to that and say, “Oh, yeah, that might be right.” But when it comes down to doing it, I think that hearing it and doing it are two entirely different things for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is such a key. I don\u2019t know who these people are because we\u2019re talking about them in a very broad generic sense —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I don\u2019t want to use any names, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Not asking you to. I just think that these people that you\u2019re talking about, many of them have been propagandized or brainwashed, whatever term you want to use, toward liberalism for most of their lives and really in their classrooms beginning in, oh, probably elementary school, all the way up to junior high, middle school, high school, and certainly into college, and they\u2019ve had all of this propaganda thrown at them, and they\u2019re living under people they voted for, but they do not associate the people that they voted for as the problem. It boggles my mind intellectually. But then when you tell \u2019em hard work, see, I think some of them have been conditioned against even that. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what percentage it is, but it\u2019s fairly large, young people have an awfully high expectation of having what they want really soon in life, and if they don\u2019t see it happening, then they get a little down in the dumps over that. And your notion about the concept of hard work and fighting against the odds and not depending on others, plus these people have been drilled through their whole lives with this conflict resolution stuff, being nice, don\u2019t be aggressive, always be tolerant and understanding of the failures around you, and don\u2019t try to be better than anybody else, don\u2019t keep score in softball or baseball, whatever, it\u2019s a whole collection of things that has \u2019em beat down.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. And that just seems so foreign to me personally. I look at life and I say, “I can do something. I can do something great because I have skills and I can learn things and I can work and I can be successful.”<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: And you\u2019ve got passion, and you have a positive attitude about your future.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And I think that — just getting back to the thing about the Internet, I wish that more Republicans would be able to figure out how to more effectively message on the Internet, because I know a lot of conservatives look at the Internet and say, “Oh, all these things going on on the Internet are stupid.” I think that it really just reflects the user base so much as — I think if Republicans could use the Internet more effectively to communicate their message, that it would work. And I think that a lot of Republicans aren\u2019t doing that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know how you feel. It\u2019s almost analogous to the — let\u2019s say in your case the Republicans are your team, you want \u2019em to win, and you want to be proud of \u2019em, and you want to see them doing things that you would do, and you don\u2019t. You don\u2019t see any of that coming out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to see that because it\u2019s good for America. It\u2019s not just I want to see Republicans win \u2019cause they\u2019re Republicans. I want to see Republicans win because that\u2019s good for America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s the thing about conservatism. Every speech I make, and so often on this program, every opportunity I get when it comes up, I do my best to explain conservatism at a base root level. We love everybody. We want a great nation. We want everybody to do well. We don\u2019t see “black female” when we look at people. We don\u2019t see groups. We don\u2019t see victims. We don\u2019t judge people by the color of their skin. We don\u2019t make judgments on them on that basis. We see people. We see human beings. We want to see people, as many as possible, pursuing excellence. <\/p>\n

We believe, conservatives believe — and this is gonna be laughed at. You wait, you\u2019re gonna see this quote on the Internet, Leo, it\u2019s gonna be laughed out of the ballpark. But we conservatives think these Norman Rockwell portraits are possible and that there\u2019s nothing wrong with \u2019em. We want solid neighborhoods. We want solid community, and we want people working together in them. That\u2019s how it all works. We want a strong moral fiber. We want an emphasis on right and wrong because it\u2019s the best for people. It\u2019s really a frustrating thing to see it mischaracterized. <\/p>\n

While I\u2019ve got you, go back and grab sound bite number one \u2019cause I want to play this sound bite of Dr. Benjamin Carson<\/a> \u2019cause this is what the Republicans are up against, Leo. He was on C-SPAN yesterday, and the caller called and asked him his opinion of me, and then he asked Dr. Carson whether he thought I was a positive or negative impact on society. And he said something that is really insightful. Here it is again. <\/p>\n

CARSON: I think Rush Limbaugh serves a very useful purpose in our society because he breaks things down. He looks at things, he analyzes it. You know, some of his analysis, you know, I might not agree with, but a lot of them I do agree with, and because a lot of people have tried to demonize him, people look at what he says in light of that demonization as opposed to the merits of what it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against, Leo. What he\u2019s saying is, I can come out and I could have the most brilliant, correct, a thousand percent correct analysis of something, but the left would say, “Well, Limbaugh, he\u2019s a racist, he\u2019s a sexist,” and would discount everything I said because I don\u2019t have the credibility to say it. Whether it\u2019s right or not doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ve been demonized and my credibility has been destroyed among the media and the Democrats and the people that see this and think I can\u2019t be right. It\u2019s not possible because I\u2019m such an evil person. And this is what they\u2019ve done. This is what the left does to any credible conservative — Marco Rubio, you name it, Ted Cruz. I mean, the names never end. Sarah Palin, they pop up. The left, anybody they think is effective, they will set out to destroy. And this in turn makes Republicans afraid to pop up, get their necks chopped off, their heads chopped off. So the Democrats have perfected this thing and the Republicans don\u2019t know how to deal with it, Leo.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: You can have the best rational and successful argument, but if there\u2019s a good emotional argument to counter that, people would be more persuaded by the emotional argument because a lot of people have strong emotions. I think that that\u2019s part of the problem, is the left primarily uses emotional arguments, which work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And conservatism is based on intellectual and rational arguments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And people are less willing to listen to that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: As I\u2019ve always said, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit, and liberalism is the easiest choice you can make. I use this example. You\u2019re walking down the street and there\u2019s a homeless guy pushing a shopping cart. And the liberal goes, “Oh, that\u2019s so horrible. We\u2019ve got to do something!” Wonderful person, compassionate, caring. Conservative sees that person and says, “Hmm. We\u2019ve gotta find a way to get that person working.” And that\u2019s considered mean.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s considered mean to say that people can do things for themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s really sad. I want to be able to do things for myself, personally. I don\u2019t want to have to be dependent. I want to be able to be successful and wealthy on my own. I don\u2019t want to have to depend on government for my prosperity.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Leo, hang in there. Whatever you do, don\u2019t let \u2019em — you don\u2019t sound like you\u2019re the kind that will, but don\u2019t let \u2019em intimidate you into being silent, because you\u2019re 18. It\u2019s gonna be people like you that are going to be the hooks for turning this around. I don\u2019t mean to put pressure on you, but people like you are going to be crucially important in helping others who don\u2019t to see the light. I\u2019m really glad you called. I thank you a lot. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, I think kids today have very good reason to be depressed, given who they voted for. The amount of the national debt that they owe, given how few of them are supposed to support as many who are gonna be retired. Wait \u2019til these young people, they\u2019re already depressed, wait \u2019til they find out what their health care costs are gonna be and why. Wait \u2019til they figure that out. And then watch \u2019em try to blame that on Republicans, too. I know about the Republican brand and all that stuff, but they still voted for this. They voted for it. You know, so dig in. <\/p>\n

You know, Steven Rattner the other day was talking about Detroit, the guy said (paraphrasing), “Aside from voting in elections, the people in Detroit had nothing to do with –” BS! Precisely because of voting in elections Detroit is the way it is. Rattner was trying to exempt the population of Detroit of having any responsibility of what happened. They own it! They voted for the people that destroyed that town. And it\u2019s the same thing here. My sympathy level is not all that high. The little twerps voted for this stuff. Okay, learn it, love it, live it. But Rattner said, “Aside from voting in elections, the people of Detroit have no responsibility or culpability –” That\u2019s 90% of it! They got exactly what they voted for. Liberals always do. They get exactly what they vote for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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