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RUSH: We have a young man 15 years old on the phone from Mesa, Arizona. It\u2019s Jordan, and I\u2019m glad you called. Nice to have you on the program, Jordan. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019m wondering how I can help my youth generation realize what\u2019s happening in our nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: A couple of questions: Are your parents conservative?<\/p>\n

CALLER: My parents are conservative, and I go to a really great school.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. And so you…? I\u2019m just trying to get the lay of the land here. There\u2019s no wrong answer to any of these. There\u2019s no tricks here. I\u2019m just kind of asking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What about the kids at your school? What\u2019s the majority, conservative or liberal?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I go to a school where most of the people there are conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Teachers, too? Teachers as well?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The teachers as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. You are very fortunate, number one.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very fortunate. That would be… The main reason your liberal friends, to the extent you have them… They are not attending a school like yours, more than likely, and they are probably being presented an entirely different worldview, national view — in the curriculum, the attitudes of the of the professors, teachers, and this kind of thing. The first thing that you\u2019re going to need is patience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re gonna want to persuade them. You\u2019re gonna want them to see the light. You\u2019re gonna want them to see the light for all the right reasons. I know you want them probably to be able to experience the best the country has to offer. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want them to be prosperous, and you know that liberalism is not the answer. But, man, it is so seductive, Jordan. Liberalism is so easy. All you have to do is see some suffering and tell everybody that you see it, and that it really bothers you. Right there, you are given great credit for having great compassion, and people will say great things about you. All you have to do is notice it. You don\u2019t have to offer solution. If you do offer a solution, say, “The government ought to do some,” then they\u2019ll really, really love you. <\/p>\n

Liberalism\u2019s easy. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why a lot of people end up going there, is no resistance to it. It doesn\u2019t take any kind of thought because it\u2019s all based in emotion, and thinking is harder than feeling. Thinking\u2019s an applied process. So the thing you have to be is patient. Then, if you\u2019re really serious, you\u2019re gonna encounter circumstances where you try to persuade, and you\u2019re going to fail, and you\u2019re gonna wonder why they\u2019re not hearing you. I would use those episodes as opportunities to develop techniques that you think would be comfortable to you, to use in order to try to get people to look at things a different way. And maybe that would be the objective. Don\u2019t actually go over the idea you\u2019re going to change their minds. All you want to do is maybe have them look at things a different way. One of the ways of doing that is just ask them questions — questions to which you know the answers, by the way, so you\u2019re setting them up, but they don\u2019t know that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you\u2019re basically asking them… Take a general subject like dependence versus self-reliance. You can ask people a series of questions: “What would you rather be in your life? Would you rather be somebody that\u2019s able to provide for yourself and therefore in control of what you end up having and doing — would you like to have the power and the ability and the ambition to be able to do things — or do you want to be the person waiting around for whatever somebody will give you?” I guarantee you every liberal you talk to will never admit they want to sit around and be given things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you\u2019ve got \u2019em. You\u2019ve just gotten them to admit — and, by the way, you will find some, “Hey, I think it\u2019s perfectly fine! I\u2019m entitled to things. I\u2019m an American; I\u2019m owed things.” You\u2019ll run into that, too, obviously. But when you pose the question the way I asked you to pose it, most people are gonna tell you, “I clearly want to be self-reliant. I mean, I want to be in charge of my future. I want to determine where I work, what kind of job I do, what I get paid.” At that point, you\u2019ve just gotten them to admit a central tenet, a difference of conservatism and liberalism. You\u2019re by no means home, but you have gotten them to admit something. So you have demonstrated to them by virtue of asking a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That way, you\u2019re not wagging your finger in their face and telling them what they ought to believe, or telling them how they\u2019re wrong. You ask them a series of questions to which the answer\u2019s fairly obvious, and they end up coming to see the light on their own. But you\u2019re gonna have to be patient because for every bit of progress you make, they\u2019re gonna go back to school and have it all erased.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s really cool, \u2019cause I used to think they would change a lot faster if I just pointed out the change. And I understand. I think I kind of used to be in a liberal school, so I kind of did that. It\u2019s gonna be like a mind-washing process, so I think I should be more patient. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It will be mind cleansing. Mind cleansing is what you\u2019re gonna be doing. They\u2019re the ones whose brains have been washed. You\u2019re gonna be trying to cleanse them. But you\u2019re actually going to be embarking on techniques that mean they will be doing it themselves. But just a series of questions. Ask them what they want their future to be, you know, with specifics. You know, give them two options with each question. <\/p>\n

“Do you want to be sitting around waiting for a government program for your health insurance, or do you want to be able to have enough money, have enough success to be able to choose what\u2019s best for you?” I guarantee, it\u2019s not gonna work automatically; people are gonna say, “I never had that chance! This country doesn\u2019t have an opportunity for me anymore. But look, that opportunity is gone. We\u2019ve gotta do the best we can,” and that means you\u2019re gonna have to go in and say, “No, no, no, no, no. The only way that\u2019s true is if you let it be true. <\/p>\n

“There\u2019s plenty of opportunity out there, but you gotta go get it,” and you can prove your point by just pointing them to any successful person or company or group of people you want to point to, there\u2019s plenty of opportunity. Look, it\u2019s very easy to be pessimistic, Jordan. It\u2019s very easy to be negative. People come by that naturally, and it takes no effort to be fatalistic or negative. It takes a lot of effort to overcome adversity. Not everybody\u2019s successful overnight. Very few people are. And even if they are, it doesn\u2019t last. <\/p>\n

You have to continually do the things that made you successful. It\u2019s an ongoing effort. I remember what a friend of mine once said, that any group of people that is not affirmatively conservative each and every day will eventually become liberal. That\u2019s how seductive liberalism is. So you\u2019ve got some advantages in that you\u2019ve grown up around it, and your own independent thought process has confirmed for you what you\u2019ve been told. You agree with it, and it\u2019s quite understandable that you would want others of your age and generation to agree with you because if you\u2019re typical conservative you want everybody to do well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t want it all for yourself and leave scraps. You want everybody to do well. You want your friends to do as well as you do. You don\u2019t want to leave people behind. You don\u2019t want to be left behind. And you don\u2019t want to resent people\u2019s success. So, it\u2019s just first things first. If you\u2019re really serious, do not get in their face and wag your finger and tell them things. Ask them questions, simple questions to show what the common sense answer is, and have them demonstrate to themselves that they\u2019re really not the liberals they think, but realize it\u2019s much easier being a liberal.<\/p>\n

As a liberal, they\u2019re never gonna be made fun of in the media. They\u2019re never gonna be made fun of for the people they vote for. The peer pressure on a conservative is far greater, and it\u2019s more hurtful and damaging. It takes a lot of fortitude to hang in with it. But we need people like you willing to try. I\u2019m glad that you — and another thing, if I may be so bold. If the people that you were talking to have young brothers and sisters who are eight, nine, or 10, by all means recommend my books. The Rush Revere Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans books<\/a> — and I\u2019m not kidding. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I know it sounds like a shameless plug here. But if your friends that are your age, 15, 16, 14, have young kids that are eight to 10, you tell them to have their brothers and sisters start reading those books, because they need to learn the truth about the founding of the country which you have the benefit of knowing because, as a conservative, you\u2019ve been taught it be you have been exposed to it. Many people haven\u2019t. They\u2019re getting lied to every day about what a rotten country this is and how racist and sexist the Founders were and all that, and the Rush Limbaugh Rush Revere Time-Travel Adventure Series<\/a> will be a great corrective measure. And then after you do all that, stay in touch with us here, Jordan. Is there…? I\u2019m kind of giving you a long answer here. Did you have any other questions or any clarifications you need?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s amazing. I\u2019ve actually read some of your books. I really like the story and how you really bring out what happened in our past. I love what the Founding Fathers did, and I like to really understand how the country started —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a miracle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and how the country was really supposed to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is a miracle. To think that in the entirety of humanity, whatever length of time that is — whether it\u2019s 10,000 or 10 million, whatever number of years it is — there\u2019s never been before it a United States. There has never been a country governed on the premise that it\u2019s the people who are free and that it\u2019s the government subservient to the people. That had never been that. In all of humanity, Jordan, in the entirety of the human race, it had never happened. <\/p>\n

Not only is that unique, it\u2019s miraculous. And the battle is ongoing to preserve that, and the battle we have is among left and right. People on the left who want to tear down the entire concept of the founding and establish the fact that the only fair, decent way to govern a people is with a big, oppressive government managing people\u2019s lives. Because they, Jordan, believe that people are not capable of living their own lives on their own. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have faith in people\u2019s intelligence and their character. They do not believe people… They look at people with contempt. They do not think people will do “the right thing” as they define it. That\u2019s why they want to control as much of life as they can. And to do that, they create as much dependency in people as they can — dependency on the government — which creates loyalty to the government, which equals votes to big government. That\u2019s what you\u2019re up against. I\u2019m really grateful that you want to tackle this, and I hope you do. I hope you succeed at. Just stay in touch here and let us know how it\u2019s going.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. That\u2019s Jordan in Mesa, Arizona, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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