{"id":7026,"date":"2015-02-20T18:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-20T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:39:54","slug":"a_liberated_former_low_info_democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/20\/a_liberated_former_low_info_democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Liberated Former Low-Info Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Midland, Michigan. This is Tim. Tim, great to have you with us. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I wanted to call and let you know I\u2019m an exception to the Obama economy rule. In the last six years I have more than doubled, almost tripled my income, and it has nothing to do with Obama. It all has to do with something you said in a tirade a few years back. I was an uninformed Democrat. I started listening to you because my car only got one station and you were on it. And you were on a tirade about if you want to improve yourself, don\u2019t wait for the government. Take care of business, get off your butt and educate yourself. It just clicked in my head. So I must call and thank you for changing my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate you saying that, sir. I really do. You know, it\u2019s all about challenging conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is a powerful thing and it doesn\u2019t just have to be conventional wisdom in the news. It\u2019s amazing the motivational things that work on people. For example, if you were to say to somebody, “Create your own circumstances. You don\u2019t have to live under the circumstances that dominate your life right now. <\/line><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t?” <\/p>\n

No. Create your own. People fall into — you know the old phrase change is hard? Most people don\u2019t like change? They don\u2019t, because it\u2019s new. Everything about change is new. And people, they get comfortable. They get comfortable in routine and it\u2019s oftentimes safer to just stay within the friendly confines of routine. To go outside that is to really upset apple carts. It\u2019s change and sometimes it\u2019s scary and that can freeze people and keep them from doing things that are in their best interests. But all it would take is change your own circumstance. If they\u2019re going to have a recession, I\u2019m not participating, any number of things. So whatever it was, it got to you, and I\u2019m glad that it did, because now you have independence. You don\u2019t have to depend on what they\u2019re doing in order for your livelihood, more than likely, right? <\/p>\n

CALLER: That is correct. I was blaming my boss. I was blaming the rich people. I was blaming the Republicans. And once I started blaming myself and taking care of my own business, I have truly freed myself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is great. By the way, you weren\u2019t uncommon. Most people will gladly accept an excuse that doesn\u2019t involve them. That\u2019s one of the reasons why liberalism sells so well. Liberals gladly tell you, “You have nothing to do with your own failure. You\u2019ve got nothing to do with how screwed up you are. You have nothing to do with how odd and weird you are. It\u2019s somebody else\u2019s fault. It\u2019s the Republicans. It\u2019s the conservatives. It\u2019s Wall Street. Whoever.” <\/p>\n

Somebody can come along and convince you that in your misery you are fine, that your misery is owing to somebody else. And the Democrats, we\u2019re going to punish them for you. We\u2019re going to raise their taxes. We\u2019re going to increase regulations on them. We\u2019re going to make their lives miserable, too. Yours isn\u2019t improved, but you think they\u2019re getting the shaft a little bit so you\u2019re supposed to be happier. Liberalism is a real easy sell. You\u2019re not responsible for anything. It\u2019s always somebody else\u2019s fault, and as an added bonus, whoever\u2019s fault it is the libs are really going to punish. <\/p>\n

But even after all that, the people the libs punish, at least economically still seem to be doing okay. After all that, you\u2019re still miserable. After turning your life over to the left to get even with the people you think are screwing you, nothing changes. You\u2019re still miserable. You\u2019re still blaming the same people until you get hold of things and realize you have much more control over your life than you believe, and the real key to it is there\u2019s nobody. It isn\u2019t Ted Kennedy. It isn\u2019t Barack Obama. It isn\u2019t Hillary Clinton. It isn\u2019t Bill Clinton. There\u2019s nobody who cares as much about you as you do. <\/line><\/p>\n

But you may have been taught that it\u2019s selfish to care about yourself. You may have been guilt tripped into believing that acting in your own self-interest is selfish. That acting in your own self-interest is leaving other people out or taking advantage of other people. You may have been led to believe that staying miserable and average is fair and nice, because it doesn\u2019t humiliate anybody else. All you\u2019re doing is allowing other people to determine your lot in life, your position in life, and they never make it better. Not appreciably. Liberalism\u2019s life changing impacts are almost always negative. <\/p>\n

Pick any abundantly wealthy person, outside of someone who inherited their money, and try and figure out what it was about liberalism that did it for them. I acknowledge there might be some things. If you were able to form a crony relationship with government and your business benefited and you as the owner benefited, yeah, that can happen. But you know how many people that really affects. You can put them in a thimble, compared to the population. Compared to the number of people who rely on themselves, invest in themselves, take control of their lives and become whatever, that\u2019s where the big numbers are. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s change. It\u2019s risky. And if you listen to too many liberals, it\u2019s unfair because you might have more advantages than other people. You might be better at something than somebody else is or you might be a little smarter, and it\u2019s not fair that you should have more. They guilt trip people every day. It\u2019s part and parcel of liberalism. It\u2019s just easy. Nothing\u2019s ever your fault and whoever is to blame for where you are in life, the left is going to punish them for you. Very seductive. I\u2019m glad you called, Tim. Thanks so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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