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RUSH: Mt. Clemens, Michigan. This is John. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Twice today and in previous shows you\u2019ve mentioned some Republican strategy of waiting until this thing is implemented, letting it fail, be a boondoggle, overpriced, incompetent. And at that point Republicans can say the Democrats did it and they take the blame. Is that not one strategy?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The theory, and I\u2019ve got a sound bite coming up, yeah, let it implode. I think McCain says it. I\u2019ve got it somewhere. It\u2019s going to implode, when it implodes the Democrats are going to get blamed, Obama\u2019s going to get blamed because, yeah, it\u2019s their idea.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I submit to you that if that were the criteria for a federal program falling apart, all we would have existing at the federal level is the United States military because that is by definition most federal programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the department of education. Not only do those things not go away when they prove themselves to not work or be incompetent, if a Republican dares to try to tweak it to make it work, like George W. Bush on Social Security, Paul Ryan, not only is it deemed to be anti program, it\u2019s deemed to be anti the people it\u2019s supposed to serve. So if we try to tweak Social Security, what do we get called, Rush? We hate senior citizens. We try to tweak Medicaid. We hate poor people. So you put this thing in place and you don\u2019t take it apart now, you wait until it\u2019s in place, we have history to show what that strategy gets us.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re right, but let me give some differences here. In the case of Social Security, everybody gets their check. As far as they\u2019re concerned, it works. Whether the system\u2019s broke, they don\u2019t care as long as they get their money. Medicaid, ditto. Education, schools are open, kids are going, they\u2019re being fed, it works. The difference in Obamacare is it isn\u2019t working. You can\u2019t sign up; it isn\u2019t going to be easy to sign up. When you do sign up, you\u2019re going to pay through the nose or the IRS is going to come find you. These are the things that the advocates of this philosophy believe. They believe that it\u2019s going to be so bad at implementation that it isn\u2019t going to have time to settle in and start working as the others are perceived to work. But look, I\u2019m like you. This idea of sit around, let this happen, it\u2019s no different than saying, “Rush, let\u2019s elect Clinton in \u201992 and let\u2019s let people see how bad the Democrats are.” And Clinton got re elected. You sit back and you let this thing happen and you let them tweak it and fix it to the point that it does appear to work, then it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So your point is well taken, because you\u2019re right, I don\u2019t know in a historical sense of a government program that the people demanded be taken away because it doesn\u2019t work. Seasoned citizens and Dan Rostenkowski, that was an outlier, it was one example, but that was before it even was implemented. Seasoned citizens were told this was back in the eighties that their, I think it was Medicare, or maybe it was their Social Security, something was going to cost them additional $7 a month or something. They just had a fit and they attacked Rostenkowski\u2019s car on the street in Illinois with him in it. And then they went back and they cancelled the program.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think in terms of a major, major entitlement, maybe prohibition. Maybe prohibition. But again, that was denying people something. That wasn\u2019t giving them something or even appearing to. I don\u2019t know of an entitlement program that the American people have demanded be taken away from them. Oh, I know who it was. Cookie gave me a sound bite of Ted O\u2019Baxter advocating this on his TV show last night, that\u2019s who it was, that it\u2019s going to implode. You know, focus on something else because it\u2019s going to implode and it isn\u2019t going to work. And you don\u2019t need to do anything. Anyway, John, I appreciate the call. Plano, Texas, this is Bruce outside Dallas. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Great to be on. Glad I got through.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll get straight to the point. What is it that makes people gravitate towards liberalism or conservatism? We both know that there are smart stupid people on both sides, but I guess to be more precise, why would an intelligent person buy into liberalism and all its stupidity? I think it has to do with motivation. That conservatives, we\u2019re motivated, we\u2019re truth lovers. We have a burning desire to know what is truth, what is actually happening in the world, how things really are. With liberals I think they\u2019re motivated by a deep emotional investment in seeing the world the way they do. It has to be this way and to them that means more than the desire to know the truth. The truth is an obstacle.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s look at it in your terms because I think you\u2019re onto something here a little bit. Basically you\u2019re saying conservatives deal with reality. Truth is reality, it\u2019s what we deal with every day. That\u2019s our world. Liberals see an imperfect world. They see an unfair world. They see an unjust and immoral world, and they think it can be perfected by them because they are better people. I have often said that liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice you can make because all you have to do is look at suffering and say how much you hate it. You don\u2019t even have to fix it. You just get to say, “Oh, that\u2019s so horrible” and you automatically are said to care. And caring, see, conservatives don\u2019t care, precisely because they\u2019re rooted in reality. And if you\u2019re rooted in reality, you see all the horrors out there. But you don\u2019t care because they don\u2019t move you.<\/line><\/p>\n

But liberals, everything is imperfect, it\u2019s unjust, and there\u2019s so many psychological explanations for this. They\u2019re looking to make themselves think they\u2019re better people or look like better people, or in many cases there\u2019s a different reason for every person. Some, they just want to be close to power. For example, I always ask myself, how does a smart, as you say, brilliant CEO of a modern entrepreneurial company sign on with a bunch of statists?<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s an answer. The answer is: As long as they get close to the statist, they\u2019re close to power, and maybe the statists will leave them alone or grant them favors from the state. Most favored nation status or what have you. But it\u2019s about power, it\u2019s about status, and it\u2019s about being near it, and the implicit promise that the statist will leave you alone if you happen to be on his side. Then the other factors come into play.<\/p>\n

“Well, as a liberal, that means I care about people. I have compassion! I\u2019m for gay marriage. I\u2019m for equal rights, and I want to save the planet, and I want to protect the stupid whales and seals — not “stupid,” the smart whales and seals — and the dolphins. And you other people, you don\u2019t care!” Liberalism does not involve thinking so much. Conservatism does. I\u2019ve always thought it\u2019s an intellectual pursuit, even though people live their lives that way.<\/p>\n

My dad had a good way of explaining it. He said, “Son, it\u2019s always amazed me here in the neighborhood. There isn\u2019t one person here in our neighborhood, son, that will go knocking on doors and ask for money for whatever reason. Kid needs it. The kid needs to go to school. Somebody needs to go to the doctor. There\u2019s not one neighbor in our neighborhood who\u2019ll come knocking on our door or anybody else\u2019s and come asking for money, but they will vote for people who will do it for them,” and it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

The point is that most people actually do live their lives as conservatives. And, of course, liberalism has that really added benefit that all of this compassion and magic always happens with somebody else\u2019s money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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