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RUSH: Let me go back to Jack here in Miami. Jack, welcome back to the program, and thanks again for holding on.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s okay. How you doing, Rush?<\/line>RUSH: Very good, very well, just as good as the last time I spoke to you. Now, you\u2019re 20 years old, you\u2019re a Rush baby, and I have been the one constant voice in your life, I believe you said.<\/line>CALLER: Yes, that is true.<\/line>RUSH: You feel helpless? Describe this to me. What do you mean, helpless?<\/line>CALLER: Well, I kind of feel bad for saying this because I feel like I should know what to do, but as I\u2019m getting more into the, quote, unquote, real world, I\u2019m just being confronted by people that just in normal, every day discussions, that have the stupidest ideas about money, economy, law, power, and I try to explain it to them, and I don\u2019t even try to explain it to them by using, you know, simple facts. I break it down as much as I can. Yesterday I was in a huge argument with my boss about why oil companies should have tax breaks. They can create more jobs with the money that they don\u2019t have to pay to the government, obviously. I tried breaking that down, and no matter how hard I tried, it wasn\u2019t even going in one ear to go out the other, it seems.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, I understand that. I have encountered that, as we all have, all of us who are conservative encountered this all of our lives. But just to give you some optimism here, despite the fact that we\u2019ve been encountering it all our lives, you\u2019re only 20 years old. I was born in 1951. There was no such thing as — well, there was conservatism, but nobody knew yet. There were people like Bill Buckley<\/a> and Russell Kirk<\/a> and a number of others who were building a foundation. Barry Goldwater<\/a> came along and Ronald Reagan<\/a>, I\u2019m sure you know enough recent history. The lesson here is that despite what you see as something hopeless, tremendous progress has been made and is being made. And you find yourself now, you\u2019re young and you\u2019re learning and you feel like you\u2019re armed with information that\u2019s correct; you\u2019re surrounded by people who not only don\u2019t get it, they\u2019re not interested in it, and it frustrates you.<\/line>The one thing that you have to understand about all this is you have to understand the makeup of many liberals — not all of them. Some of them are thinking people, but you have to understand liberalism itself. It is a feeling. It\u2019s an emotion. It\u2019s not based on things that are reasonable. It\u2019s based on a whole bunch of things that are really designed to make them feel better about themselves. I don\u2019t want to get into too much discussion of liberals because you\u2019re the focal point here and your helplessness. You should not give up trying because in the process of trying to talk to these people, what you\u2019ll do is help yourself. You will learn to express your thoughts better, more coherently and more persuasively, the more you do it, and you can look at this as somewhat of a challenge. Do not get frustrated when they don\u2019t hear it, believe it, or accept it, although you\u2019ll find over time that some of them will – but not in your presence. <\/line><\/p>\n

They will never allow you to know that you\u2019ve changed their mind. What you\u2019re going to have to do is take comfort and solace, as we all do, in your own sense of self-achievement as you get better at understanding, articulating, and explaining these things to people. So at the end of one of these typical conversations that you just described with your boss, you ought to learn to walk away from it feeling very good because you expressed your position cogently, you expressed it artfully, you expressed it persuasively. If he didn\u2019t get it, that\u2019s not your fault. In the process of doing all this, what\u2019s going to happen is you\u2019re going to influence far more people than you know. We all do this. We all have far more impact on far more people than any of us are ever aware, even if you\u2019re looking for that impact. I know a lot of people who are looking for evidence that they\u2019re having impact. They\u2019re never satisfied, and that\u2019s because they\u2019re looking for others to provide personal feedback. Learn to provide your own satisfaction yourself. You\u2019ll know when you\u2019ve done a good job of this and when you haven\u2019t, and those times where you haven\u2019t will spur you to do even better the next time. <\/line>In the process, you\u2019re going to meet like-minded people. You\u2019re going to meet people who agree with you, who understand what you\u2019re talking about, and those people will become your circle of friends. It\u2019s not to say you can\u2019t be friends with liberals, because you can, but not if every meeting with them is combat or argument or mild confrontation. There\u2019s more to life than politics and ideology, and you need a well-rounded life as well, but in the process of being who you are, you\u2019re going to attract people like you, which is what you want. You\u2019re going to attract friends, you\u2019re going to attract business associates, and in the process you\u2019re going to feel far more confident as that begins to happen. And you\u2019re going to get a sense here that you\u2019re not alone, that you\u2019re not lost, and that you can, if you want to use this phrase — I\u2019m not crazy about it, but you can make a difference. The point is you\u2019re going to make a difference far more than you know. You\u2019re not married yet, are you?<\/line>CALLER: No, I\u2019m not.<\/line>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re going to be married someday, probably. The statistics say that you are, and someday you\u2019re probably going to have children. The way you raise them, the household that they grow up in, the values that you inculcate to them. I mean, this is how these things spread. This is how your values that you consider important are inculcated to others. In this sense you\u2019re not forcing them on anybody, you\u2019re just exposing them to yours. Ah, your kids will rebel at times, that always happens, but don\u2019t feel lost and alone, particularly when your ideas and your attempts to persuade are rejected by people who really don\u2019t have half the information you have. What kind of business are you in?<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m in loss prevention.<\/line>RUSH: What\u2019s that? I don\u2019t know what it is.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s like retail, you come in and shoplift, I apprehend you.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, okay, so you basically, you go out and you — I got it. So you have a boss —<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: — and you\u2019re talking to him about these things, and he has no understanding of what you\u2019re saying because in his mind, he has been raised, he\u2019s been exposed to people who believe oil is bad.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s almost like he\u2019s saying a swear word when he says ExxonMobil. It\u2019s almost like it\u2019s evil.<\/line>RUSH: Of course. Now, you can develop arguments for this. You can say, okay, ExxonMobil had a profit of whatever — the world\u2019s largest profit ever — and this guy is probably outraged about it.<\/line>CALLER: Exactly.<\/line>RUSH: Ask him if he\u2019s concerned about the massive losses of Ford Motor Company. Ask him if he\u2019s concerned about the massive profits of Toyota. Ask questions that make him question his own bigotry, which is what this guy is, but he\u2019s been trained, he\u2019s been raised this way.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you a little story. I was out at the AT&amp;T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am<\/a> a couple weeks ago which is where I\u2019m sure I caught this mysterious ravaging virus, whatever is this disease coursing through my busy broadcast veins. There\u2019s a traditional big party every Wednesday night that\u2019s put on by one of the world\u2019s most famous financiers, and this year I happened to be seated next to a huge — not going to mention any names — liberal, Hollywood liberal. This was done on purpose by the people who arranged the party, because they were hoping for fireworks, entertaining kind of fireworks with this guy and I getting into it. It\u2019s happened before. It happened at the 60 Minutes 25th anniversary party at the Temple of Dundar at the Museum of Natural History — whatever it was — in New York. <\/line>They sat me next to Camille Paglia<\/a>, Steve Kroft did. They thought, ?Oh, this was going to lead to fireworks!? So Steve Kroft and Ed Bradley were circling the table every five minutes waiting for the fireworks. Camille Paglia and I are now best buds. This friend of this guy that I was seated next to, when he first spotted me, the first thing he said to me, Jack, “You have gotta get your mind right about oil! You know that oil\u2019s destroying this country. You know that oil is going to destroy the world with global warming.” I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019m saying this is a party, I am here for a good time. I said to him, ?Sir, I\u2019ll be glad to talk about this with you at any time other than here. I have a problem hearing when there are other people in the room, and I don\u2019t want to get into it. This is not the place for it.? In the meantime, we ended up talking about other things and he ended up inviting me to his Academy Award party.<\/line>CALLER: Wow.<\/line>RUSH: But I\u2019m sure that was just for the fireworks. ?If you\u2019re in LA, come to my Academy Award party.? I\u2019m not going to be in LA this weekend, so I can\u2019t go to the Academy Award parties, but the point is I haven\u2019t had the conversation about oil with him, but I will someday, but it\u2019s probably going to be much like — and this is a big-time Hollywood big shot — it\u2019s going to be much like you talking to your boss. But I look at it as an opportunity to hone my own ability to tell people what I think, rather than sit there. Don\u2019t be intimidated. This guy is your boss, but don\u2019t be intimidated. The point is you\u2019re on the right track here, you have every reason to feel proud of yourself with what you believe. Don\u2019t let your pride and your happiness and your self-satisfaction be determined by the fact that other people who were lesser than you don\u2019t understand what you do. Don\u2019t let that indicate that you\u2019re a failure. You have to understand that it\u2019s just unfortunate they don\u2019t get it and you keep on keeping on.<\/line>CALLER: Wow. Is it safe to say that I feel like I owe you money?<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing) No, no, no, no. Look, I love getting calls like this from people who are 20 years old. You know, this whole thing keeps going. I mean, I\u2019m 56. I was 20 once. I was where you are. I knew what I believed but I couldn\u2019t tell people why. Bill Buckley and my dad were the two people that enabled me to finally be able to understand why I felt what I felt, thought what I thought intellectually, and they were role models for me. I emulated them in their ability to articulate what they believed in a very persuasive way. You\u2019ve got a lot to look forward to. You\u2019re just on the cusp of something here, and it\u2019s people like you who are going to in ten, 15, 20 years keep the so-called conservative movement alive. You have a responsibility out there, Jack, and don\u2019t let yourself get down on yourself because these other people who are liberals don\u2019t buy what you believe. You\u2019re giving them too much power when you do that.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: All right?<\/line>CALLER: Okay, man. Thank you very much.<\/line>RUSH: My pleasure. <\/line><\/p>\n

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