{"id":32227,"date":"2009-04-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:19","slug":"did_obama_s_election_permanently_change_the_american_way_of_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/04\/21\/did_obama_s_election_permanently_change_the_american_way_of_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama\u2019s Election Permanently Change the American Way of Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Lincoln, California. Jan, hi. It\u2019s nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jan? <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thirteen trillion or 4,000 billion mega dittos to you, Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: I\u2019m calling about a recent American Thinker article entitled &#8216;America\u2019s November Revolution.\u2019 I think it totally encapsulates everything Obama has done thus far and plans to do to us in the future, and I\u2019m interested in what you think.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I haven\u2019t seen it. You know, I normally read the American Spectator website every day, but I have not seen it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Or American Thinker.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, American Thinker. I haven\u2019t seen it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8216;America\u2019s November Revolution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Could you summarize it for me?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Basically he\u2019s comparing it to the Russian Revolution in 1917, although that was violent.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Last November\u2019s election he\u2019s comparing to the Russian revolution?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Though it\u2019s not obviously violent, but&#8230; I mean he goes into &#8212; John Griffing. It\u2019s done by John Griffing. He goes into all the things that Bush set up for him. This is the Patriot Act; the Military Commissions Act; the Posse Comitatus Act, revisions to that. And then he goes on to&#8230; Let\u2019s see. &#8216;But Obama\u2019s strategies go far beyond mere economic control. We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we set. We\u2019ve got to have a civilian&#8230;\u2019 Well, he talks about a civilian national&#8230; Anyway, he goes on to, &#8216;The president has become an aggressive campaign against free speech. He wants to ramrod a bill through to nationalize the press.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, now I get it. I get it. So the question is: Does Obama\u2019s election change the American way of life? (snorts) Forget the election. Yeah, you can maybe draw similarities. Look what the hell is happening! I mean, yeah. (sigh) Folks, do you realize Obama has even created czars? I mean, if we want to start comparing Obama to the Russian revolution, he\u2019s got czars! Only the Russians had czars. For every cabinet level he\u2019s got three czars that run herd over the cabinet level people. I\u2019ll read the piece. I\u2019ll find the piece. This piece obviously I haven\u2019t seen it, it has to be written from the standpoint that individual liberty and freedom under assault here at the expense of big government. <\/p>\n<p>Tony in Middletown, Delaware. It\u2019s nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush, Tony. Listen, just a quick&#8230; I\u2019ve been struggling with this paradox that I understand that the Founders were diligent in crafting the Constitution to balance of it and powers and prevent the very situation we\u2019re now facing, so how did it happen and why can\u2019t we invoke the Constitution to stop or reverse this?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, uhhhh. (sigh) At some point hopefully we will. These things happen in stages. How did it happen is simple. It\u2019s been developing over 50 years are. You dumb down the education system. You stop teaching American history. You teach the Constitution as a constraint and limit rather than what it really is: a limit on government. You teach the Constitution as something that keeps the government from doing even greater things for you. And then you eventually nominate a candidate who\u2019s a demagogue, who can create, among his followers, a cult.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: People who are emoting, not thinking. And people who are so fed up with what they see as constant bickering, somebody can come along and say, &#8216;Okay. The old, tired ways of the past, we need to get rid of them, and we\u2019re all going to get along.\u2019 You promise people you\u2019re going to pay their mortgage. You promise people they\u2019re going to have health care. Really, it\u2019s the easiest thing in the world to do, is tell people you\u2019re going to give them everything, because the liberal Democrats have created more and more people who think that that\u2019s their entitlement as American citizens. So it didn\u2019t just happen overnight. It has been building and the lack of an opposition to it, I think, is probably due to the fact that the Washington-New York elite culture &#8212; from the Ivy League schools down to the halls of government, to the lobbying places &#8212; are all made up of people whose jobs resolve around government, and the bigger it is, the richer they get. And the more power government has, the more power they have. So we just, you know, turn the meaning of the Constitution and the founding of the country upside down. But at some point there\u2019s going to be a younger generation pop up that\u2019s just not going to take it. They\u2019re not going to accept the 70% taxes to pay for all this, and they\u2019ll throw these people out. They\u2019re going to be your kids and grandkids, once they discover how indebted they are on the first day they\u2019re born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Lincoln, California. Jan, hi. It\u2019s nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. 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