{"id":5302,"date":"2015-09-23T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-23T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:52:21","slug":"newly_converted_former_lib_on_trump_carson_and_the_millennial_generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/09\/23\/newly_converted_former_lib_on_trump_carson_and_the_millennial_generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Converted Former Lib on Trump, Carson and the Millennial Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Scott, San Clemente, California. Welcome, sir, great to have you with us. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime listener, second generation caller. For those of you in Rio Linda, San Clemente is just south of you guys not too far. Rush, I grew up listening to your program, and I have to admit I had absolute disdain, absolute loathing, I could not stand anything that came out of those speakers. And, you know, you didn\u2019t catch me before I went away to college to properly fill my mind full of mush.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until, you know, I got out of college and realized that I really didn\u2019t have anything to offer and only took a bunch of general electives that were kind of imposed by, you know, the state institution. And I was now in my profession that I\u2019m in now, and that works under mobile homes — well, I work under mobile homes, and we would have your program on. It was syndicated after a popular station in Los Angeles, and I didn\u2019t have the ability to turn it off, and eventually you resonated with me. <\/p>\n

The point of my call is that I\u2019m finding what you say and what Donald Trump and Ben Carson are doing as very synonymous, in that you stand by your guns. And when I tuned in yesterday and I learned that Ben Carson was doubling down about, you know, a Muslim being president and basically he just wanted to make sure they were gonna adhere to the principles of the Constitution, I was elated. And to me it was no different than what Trump\u2019s doing, and the fact that he\u2019s doing it and there\u2019s voices like you and Donald Trump, it\u2019s not that they\u2019re partisan. The reason I think Donald Trump is resonating is that he\u2019s not political. You know, I mean, yes, he\u2019s political, but he has built an institution and he\u2019s willing to call it the way it is, and that\u2019s what people want.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, he doesn\u2019t come across as a politician when he is doing politics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, he\u2019s in the political arena, he\u2019s running for office, he\u2019s in politics, but you\u2019re right, he does not sound like in any way, shape, manner, or form a politician. When Trump speaks, you don\u2019t ask, “Okay, what\u2019s he really trying to pull here,” or “What\u2019s he really saying or what\u2019s he not saying.” It\u2019s right out there, you hear what he\u2019s saying and you have no doubt about it. So there\u2019s no attempt at subterfuge or say one thing and mean another. It\u2019s just right out in the open. And that is why I think a lot of people are glomming on to this, \u2019cause it\u2019s perceived as real, genuine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the other point you were prefacing in terms of Los Angeles combating the homeless issue<\/a>, that\u2019s exactly what I found. I was in an institution, a college institution, and I was a complete liberal, man. I mean, I believed nothing but what they fed to me. And only until I got out in the real world did I find that conservatism is the true practiced method, and if you want to ever make something happen in your life, you gotta get down and do it yourself. Nobody\u2019s gonna do it for you. And so, amen, brother.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s awfully — that\u2019s heartwarming. This is a great call. Can I ask you a question before you go?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Please.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m genuinely interested in this, \u2019cause I do not think of myself, and nor does anybody who knows me, think of me as hateful in any way, quite the opposite. Yet you admitted that in the early days of listening to me, you loathed what you were hearing. And I\u2019m curious how that manifested. What was it that you hated? What got you so worked up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, honestly it was my mom\u2019s disdain, so I think it was her voice — (laughing) — that outweighed kind of what your message was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And until it was just you, me and you and I heard your voice talking directly to me, was it that, “Oh, my gosh, this guy makes sense,” and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah. So there was no filter prejudging me or characterizing me before you listened. I get it. Okay. Well, that\u2019s helpful. I appreciate that. So you\u2019re in San Clemente. Now, how old are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thirty-three. I can explain why the Millennial generation is so embittered too, but that\u2019s for another discussion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, give that a shot. I\u2019m fascinated in the Millennial generation, just as they\u2019re fascinated in themselves. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, exactly. I believe that we were sold a myth, and our parents didn\u2019t know any better, and, you know, I come from the Baby Boom generation, and they did, they truly wanted the best for us, and so that\u2019s precisely why they made such an aggressive and fervent push for us to attend higher institutions of learning. And we really thought that we were gearing ourselves, us, Millennials I\u2019m talking about, to just come out into the world with nothing but success. And we have found that that is not the way it is. And so we think that we were so entitled to everything and that we were gonna have such abundance at our feet and so many opportunities that now we realize that is nothing but a fabricated myth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, help me again. Why did you think that, because that\u2019s how your parents prepared you or did you just think that\u2019s what your education was guaranteed to provide you. Or were you told that this is what the country was obligated to do for you? Why, \u2019cause that\u2019s a much starker difference. When I was coming out of college — well, I didn\u2019t go to college. When I was that age that you\u2019re talking about here, I didn\u2019t think anything was guaranteed to me. I didn\u2019t think anybody was gonna give me anything, and I didn\u2019t want them to. My whole attitude was that I was gonna have to earn everything that I wanted to spend, and then some. So where did that come from? In your opinion, \u2019cause it\u2019s a generational, attitudinal thing. Where did this almost immediate gratification expectation come from, for Millennials?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, we saw generations of success. I saw my grandmother, you know, both of them from World War II, there was not a guaranteed success, and they ended up being very wealthy and did very well, one of them. But that was never indicative of, you know, anything that was gonna come to us. But I guess what I\u2019m saying is that it was sold that — the idea of education and somehow a degree was gonna empower —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — you to be better. I\u2019m an English major, but I went into my parents\u2019 construction business, but I\u2019m making it happen. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that\u2019s it. I think you\u2019re exactly right. I think a college degree was so promoted, so hammered, so built up, that it almost was heard by your generation as a guarantee. “Get this, and the world is your oyster,” just because you got that. And I can understand that. The way we sell education in this country and the way we sell and promote college, which is itself a profit center, make no mistake about it, that makes total sense to me. <\/p>\n

See, in my generation, I\u2019ll tell you the honest-to-God truth here, Scott. For me and my friends from where I grew up in the Midwest, the center of the country, there was no expectation of anything. And in fact our reality was that we weren\u2019t going to really succeed and make anything of ourselves until we hit 40, that it took that much time and that much hard work to establish yourself as being worth whatever somebody would pay you, that you would require, define as fair and a good life. My generation had no such expectations like yours did, whether we went to college or not. <\/p>\n

\"large\"Now, our generation was told we didn\u2019t have a chance if we didn\u2019t go to college, but we were not told that college guaranteed anything. We were simply told not going doomed us. And of course, “Well, Rush, said, ‘Well, watch me, screw, you I don\u2019t want to do that.'” But my dad thought he was a failure as a father for most of his life simply \u2019cause he couldn\u2019t convince me to go to college. But none of us expected that to automatically mean anything. It might have meant a good interview, but we were under no illusions that the kind of success you expected with your degree was just at some point gonna be handed over. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that there\u2019s anything great about us compared to you. I\u2019m just chronicling or cataloging the differences for you. I remember when I was in Sacramento. It was actually my second house that I bought. I don\u2019t count the first house \u2019cause was it a shack, and I had no business buying it anyway. I did it because everybody said it\u2019s the best investment, the smartest. I had no business. I didn\u2019t make enough money to be owning a house. But Sacramento is my first real homeownership. I remember sitting at a bar at a old restaurant called Mesa\u2019s and with a guy that built homes. He was a developer. <\/p>\n

This would have been 1987, so I\u2019m, what, 36 years old? Yeah. And he says, “You know, Rush,” I\u2019m sitting here telling him how excited I am about this first house. And he said, “This house, you\u2019re gonna be looking at this house someday as a shack. They don\u2019t let you make any money, Rush, until you\u2019re 40.” And this was a guy who was old enough to be my dad. In his mind he was not condemning anything. This is the way that society worked.<\/p>\n

There were exceptions to this, but you had to spend enough time doing things well in order to get noticed and earn. And then I think your generation, these dot-com guys came out and they were instant millionaires, Twitter guys, you see examples of that, and you think what they\u2019re telling you get a degree, it\u2019s automatic. So you had some illusions that you had to deal with, too. It wasn\u2019t all faux pas. Anyway, I gotta run. I\u2019m way over time. Scott, I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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