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RUSH: Ryan in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, nice to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks a lot, Rush, thanks for having me on. I\u2019m late for my next class so I\u2019m going to make this quick. I\u2019m a 22-year-old college student majoring in criminal justice and I apologize for getting off topic, but I wanted to tell you I\u2019m really sick and depressed about the liberal ideology pumped into my classmates constantly on a daily basis. Rush, these professors are teaching one side and they\u2019re building an army of left-wingers and feminazis. I mean, it\u2019s really ridiculous, man.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: They are not teaching; they\u2019re indoctrinating.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They are indoctrinating. And you know what they call me in my sociology 205 class? They call me the island boy, because I\u2019m isolated with my conservative values and beliefs. They should call me Leonidas. I feel like I\u2019m battling 20,000 Persians on a daily basis or something, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, let me ask you a serious question. Aside from depressing you, what other effect on you does this have? Let me make it specific. Does it make you want to throw in the chips and say, ‘Hell, it\u2019s not worth it,\u2019 or does it steel your resolve even more?<\/p>\n

CALLER: To be honest, Rush, this semester seems like it\u2019s been the worst, and for the first couple months I was fighting strong but, you know, it\u2019s hard. You\u2019ve got a classroom full of liberals that just all hop on the bandwagon. It\u2019s like they\u2019re mindless, and the professors up there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are mindless. They\u2019re not thinking at all. They are the true mind-numbed robots sponging up orders, and their indoctrination, and they\u2019re using their feelings. This is a lament that by no means, are you the first student to encounter this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Real quick, before I go, I want to say one of the things that they teach, which really makes me sick. They say, liberalism, this professor that I had, sociology 205, liberalism\u2019s linked to education so basically she\u2019s saying that if you\u2019re educated, you\u2019re probably going to be liberal. And then she goes on to say that conservatism is linked to a lack of education and simply like speaking to the teachings of the Bible, that\u2019s how the conservatives think. You know, it\u2019s stuff like this. And then you go to science class and you got them teaching about global warming. I feel like I\u2019m going to vomit, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019m 57, and I felt that way a lot. Now, I went to one year of college, and I left not for reasons that you have mentioned, I just wanted to pursue my career. But I would urge you to hang in there, and this is only going to make you stronger.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really now, Ryan, it\u2019s important that you stay there, stay in school and continue to expose yourself to this stuff, because in the process of exposing yourself to it, you\u2019re going to learn how to refute it and how to deal with these people if you want to and how to argue with them and have fun in the process rather than get mad about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, and I listen to you to help me with that, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not talking about your professors, they\u2019re the authority figure in there and when you\u2019re in that position, the authority rules. But with these idiots that are in your class, I mean you can end up having a little fun with this. And you, you know, are you the only conservative in these classes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, if I\u2019m not, the others are just laying low, because they don\u2019t want to be isolated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s what\u2019s sad. You need to find out and get these other people confident as you are. But the main thing here is, you know, you need to look — I know it\u2019s serious stuff, what you\u2019re seeing in there, and it\u2019s frustrating, and you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I feel like it\u2019s a problem for our future. I really do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I guarantee you it\u2019s been this way in the college classroom for 50 years, even longer. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, really?<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have survived it. And some of these kids when they get older are going to wise up, as you already have, they\u2019re going to start thinking on their own. They\u2019re highly impressionable right now and the liberal professor is an authority figure, is making them feel good about themselves for what they think and what they feel; not challenging them intellectually.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the point is, this could all be overcome and it has been constantly, but it\u2019s a battle that has cycles to it, and that\u2019s why we constantly need people to realize it\u2019s an ongoing, never-ending battle. You\u2019re going to have kids of your own someday, they\u2019re going to face the same thing you face and you\u2019re going to need to give them the same foundation your parents or whoever has given you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the meantime, learn to have fun with this. When you step back, if you can separate yourself for a moment from the dire consequences of these little nerds ever coming to power anywhere, you can separate yourself from that, laugh at the absolute shallowness and at the lack of curiosity. They\u2019re Stepford people!<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s so true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just laugh. Don\u2019t do it in class, but when you have conversations with them and they start talking, just shake your head and laugh and chuckle, rather than getting upset, and they\u2019ll say, ‘What are you laughing about?\u2019 ‘I don\u2019t believe what I\u2019m hearing. Have you ever thought about anything?\u2019 ‘What do you mean? I think!\u2019 ‘No, you don\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: She asked me that the other day. She said, ‘Ryan, is it jumping out at you, are you getting it?\u2019 And I looked at her, and I shook my head, and I said, ‘It\u2019s really not. It\u2019s really not.\u2019 And she was just like, you know, she was just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen. The teacher is Bill Clinton. Because what they say about Bill Clinton is, if he\u2019s in a room with a hundred people, he will find the one or two that hate him and focus on them and do anything he can to make them love him. And he\u2019ll take for granted all the people that like him. So you stand out like a sore thumb in this classroom, and these teachers are going to focus on you. You are going to become a project. They\u2019re going to start doing everything they can to get into your head.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I got news for you, it affects your grades, too, because when I write conservative answers, for the short answer responses, they tend to take more points off. But if I sit there and I go left or liberal —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re in Myrtle Beach, what is this university you\u2019re going to?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m a visiting student at Coastal Carolina University, and I\u2019m also going to Horry-Georgetown Technical College for electives there also, but that\u2019s because I\u2019m in my last year now, and I just need electives to get my bachelor\u2019s degree —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a senior? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I am a senior.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, Ryan, zip the lip. You know, you\u2019re over 90% of this. Get outta there. I thought you were a freshman.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m a senior.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was trying to guide you through four more years of sheer terror.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m a senior.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you have navigated this minefield, you\u2019re about to get out of there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I know. But I\u2019m nervous. As I\u2019m getting ready to leave, I\u2019m nervous, you know, because I see what\u2019s going on in these schools and it\u2019s everywhere in the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got people working on it. Find David Horowitz. David Horowitz is doing great work, FrontPageMag.com<\/a> is his website. He\u2019s doing great work publicly chronicling the stuff that\u2019s happening to you in the classroom at major universities all over the country. A lot of other people are focusing on this, and there are numerous — not a lot of them, but Hillsdale College is a great one, a number of liberal arts universities springing up here that don\u2019t have this kind of liberal identity to them. But, look, you\u2019re on the cusp here, getting out of this prison, and you have survived it, and you\u2019ve triumphed over it. You know, this is not the place for your battles now. This place is almost in your rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The focus is to get it fully in the rearview, to get outta there, and you\u2019re going to find a different world outside the classroom.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I hope so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You will, trust me on this, especially when you\u2019re able to listen to this program every day. It will change your mind. And if you turn off the television three or four days a week that will help, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. All right, well, thanks for having me on, Rush, I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Ryan, hang in there. We need people like you. You are part of the proverbial ‘future generations.\u2019 This stuff gets passed down from generation to generation, and you\u2019re going to be more important in all this than you can even imagine now. You have survived the attempt of the propagandists to turn your skull full of mush into a little Trotskyite. Everybody in this audience is proud as they can be of you. You keep it up. Do not change a thing, just get outta there, and your real life will begin soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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