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RUSH: Here\u2019s Julie in Morristown, Tennessee. I tell you, great to have you as we go back to the phones. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I appreciate you taking my phone call. I am the mother of three, a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old, and an 18-year-old. I\u2019m glad I just ordered your hardcover and your audio book and look forward to it coming so we can enjoy it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re excited about it. My husband and I, along with four other couples, about seven years ago founded in our community a K-to-12 Christian classical school. A core part of our curriculum is teaching history chronologically and accurately to our students, so they actually cycle through history chronologically three times by the time they graduate. In light of that, my oldest son, 18, graduated in May. He is now in college, and is quite skeptical. So my question for you is: How do we, as parents, practically inspire our young people?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait, wait, wait, wait just a second. I need to understand what you just said. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your 18-year-old is now in college after having undergone your curriculum?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You said he\u2019s now “skeptical.” He\u2019s skeptical of what? What you told him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he\u2019s very skeptical of having any motivation to be involved in politics. “Can we make a difference?” You come out of the school and they learn how to think critically, how to think logically. They have a love for learning, yet they look at the masses of these low-information people who vote, and say, “How in the world can we stand against that? We don\u2019t stand a chance.”<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how much we know or how accurately we think we understand history. To him, it\u2019s still like it\u2019s ideology in that it\u2019s just idealistic rhetoric; it\u2019s not reality. They\u2019ve experienced Obama and Bill Clinton. That\u2019s been the reality that they\u2019ve lived through throughout their childhood. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve seen and so there\u2019s no motivation to get involved because it\u2019s still like, “We can\u2019t make a difference. There\u2019s no choice against the masses of people who are uninformed and continue to vote.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what I would do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How do we inspire them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if it were my child, the first thing I\u2019d do is spank them for thinking this way after all that time you\u2019ve taken to teach them. The first thing I\u2019d do is spank \u2019em. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then, I\u2019d ask them if that changed their mind. If that didn\u2019t… (interruption) Snerdley says, “Oh, no you just did it. You know the headline. ‘Limbaugh Advocates Corporal Punishment.'” No, seriously, what I would do is I\u2019d sit them down and I would explain to them that this is a battle that has always gone on since the founding of the country, that liberty and freedom…<\/line><\/p>\n

Even though it\u2019s the spirit with which we are all born, freedom and liberty have to be guaranteed each and every day. It is always been the case — not always, but it\u2019s common — that the masses are uninformed or misinformed. And that should just redouble their efforts to get involved and stay involved, because it\u2019s their future, meaning your kids.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s their future and their country that they want to preserve as it is, as they grow up and as they begin to do their life\u2019s work and have their own kids. If it\u2019s worth preserving, it\u2019s worth fighting for. It\u2019s worth trying to educate the low-information people. It\u2019s exactly what it is. It\u2019s easy to be cynical and tune out, but if it really is important to them, if it really matters to them — and it should — then it needs to be something that they take on almost as a cause, in addition to whatever else their life\u2019s work is.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Say, Julie, I know you\u2019re still out there. I want to say one more thing. I think there\u2019s something key to explain your 18-year-old who\u2019s wavering. You said he went off to college. Okay, so you have treated him to an education based on your Christian and traditionalist curriculum, and then he gets to college and he finds out that it\u2019s laughed at. He\u2019s made fun of by his professors and by a lot of students, and he hears about the low-information crowd.<\/p>\n

So he thinks, “What\u2019s the point?” He probably sitting there thinking he\u2019s in a minority, and he\u2019s not hip and not cool because of all of this. So he\u2019s thinking, “What\u2019s it worth?” You cannot let the good foundation that you\u2019ve laid here go to waste. He\u2019s just at an age now — and a place, college — where what you\u2019ve taught him is under assault. Everything he\u2019s learned, he\u2019s gonna be forced to question. <\/p>\n

You need to sit him down and tell him that he\u2019s under assault in this way and that the people doing this are really afraid of people like him for reasons that he may not understand. They don\u2019t want limits on morality. They don\u2019t want anybody being in charge of what\u2019s right or wrong. They don\u2019t value American traditions, and he does. He\u2019s got to understand that, as such, they\u2019re not interested in getting along with him. They\u2019re not interested in learning what he thinks. <\/p>\n

They wants to get rid of what he believes because it constitutes a threat to the little cocoon they\u2019ve built for them to live in. His education means something, and at some point he\u2019s gonna find people who are like-minded. A lot of these students that he\u2019s with now will grow out of this. Not all of them, but a lot of them do as they get older. But, you know, motivating people is a challenging thing. It\u2019s an individual effort, really. <\/p>\n

There are some generic things you could do that would motivate and inspire people, but you know your son better than anybody else does, and I\u2019m sure you know some of the things that have worked in motivating him. But you\u2019ve somehow got to explain this to him. You\u2019ve gotta explain the value of what he\u2019s become and what he believes, to him and the country and everything else. He\u2019s gotta almost become, you know, stiff spined and an evangel about it.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all about the kind of country he\u2019s gonna grow into and have and perhaps lead one way or another, and then the best thing to do is say, “Look, I wasn\u2019t wasting my time, Son. This stuff matters. It\u2019s important. It\u2019ll stand you well the rest of your life. It\u2019s how you want to live,” and you have gotta assure him that he\u2019s gonna encounter people just like that if he doesn\u2019t give up on this. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not gonna be surrounded by people that are threatened by him his whole life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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