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RUSH: Now, I happened to watch the other night… I was channel surfing around. I don\u2019t channel surf much. I was channel surfing around and I came across this show I\u2019d never seen called Chicago Med, and it\u2019s by Dick Wolf — you know, the Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Chicago PD, Chicago Fire. And the reason I stopped when I came across it was that there\u2019s a patient in the hospital who wanted his left arm amputated because he didn\u2019t feel like it was part of his body. <\/p>\n

And he was doing everything he could. He\u2019d tried to amputate it himself; that\u2019s why he was in the hospital. Of course they brought in the hospital psychiatrist to try to talk to the guy and explain what was going on, and they diagnosed him with some disease called Body Integrity Identity Disorder or some such thing. Apparently it was an official disease, and they started working with the guy in a psychological therapeutic way to try to condition him to not look at his arm, his left arm as not a part of his body.<\/p>\n

But the guy, the character, was just… I mean, neurotic. He\u2019s sick; he was angry. “You gotta cut it off! You gotta cut it off! It\u2019s not me! It\u2019s not me! Look, it\u2019s not my arm; it\u2019s not my arm.” And they wouldn\u2019t do it, of course. So they try all their medicines and they try their counseling sessions and the guy eventually makes his own makeshift tourniquet under his robe and causes gangrene, and they have to amputate his arm. And the guy is happy as he can be. He\u2019s a totally changed patient. He\u2019s content, he\u2019s happy, because this foreign…<\/line><\/p>\n

This thing that everybody said was his left arm that was not, it was finally gone and he was relieved. He was happy. He wasn\u2019t scared anymore, wasn\u2019t threatened. My point is this — and I\u2019m not advocating any of this. But just the way this was written, the shrink, the psychiatrist in the hospital said, “You know what? I blew this.” And the physician said, “What do you mean you blew this? We\u2019ve got a guy who\u2019s mentally disturbed. You didn\u2019t blow anything.” <\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t take the time to really understand his desperation. I thought I could treat this with traditional techniques, but I didn\u2019t take the time to really understand that his desperation and fear — however irrational to us — were real.” Well, I said, “Hot damn! That\u2019s a pretty close analogy to the way voters supporting anti-establishment candidates are looked at. They\u2019re just kind of kooky, they\u2019re little nuts, they\u2019re a little crazy — and to the point now they\u2019re being insulted. <\/p>\n

I mean, you have people writing pieces at various places (even some conservative blogs) saying, “Yeah, you middle class, you white people are all mad? You deserve to die! You know, you deserve to fail. You\u2019re sitting out there blaming everybody else for your problems; you deserve to fail. You\u2019re sitting there pining for industries that no longer exist. You haven\u2019t modernized.” They\u2019re being blamed for all this. Their support for Trump, they\u2019re being blamed for, for being losers. <\/p>\n

I think the same thing that was caricatured in this TV show — portrayed in this TV show — is happening here. I think a lot of people look at Trump\u2019s supporters and frankly, some of them, you know, they\u2019re saying crazy things on Twitter. But a lot of \u2019em don\u2019t do that, and I think some in the establishment and in the establishment media really haven\u2019t taken the time to think, \u2019cause they don\u2019t see the country in crisis. Like this e-mail I got from this Trump guy who was just devastated over this Colorado thing. <\/p>\n

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He says, “You gotta understand why we support Trump. We all have one thing in common. If there is a scintilla of a chance of saving our country, Trump\u2019s it. There isn\u2019t anybody else — and it\u2019s a very small chance. But it\u2019s the last chance. If Trump can\u2019t pull it off, it\u2019s over.” I\u2019m reading from an e-mail I got from a friend of mine that\u2019s a Trumpist, who does not play games on Twitter and insult people or any of that. But he genuinely believes this is it, and a lot of them do. <\/p>\n

The point is, whether they\u2019re right or wrong, the establishment doesn\u2019t see anything anywhere near like that. They don\u2019t see student loan debt. They don\u2019t see college education being worthless. They don\u2019t see the country in crisis. They don\u2019t see the national debt as something that may be an immovable impediment to their kids\u2019 and grandkids\u2019 future. They just don\u2019t see it. So they mock people who do and make fun of them, and it\u2019s driving more and more people away from them. <\/p>\n

This arrogant condescension is not the way to deal with this. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I gotta take a break \u2019cause I\u2019m out of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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