{"id":213801,"date":"2016-06-20T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/20\/how_to_convince_millennials_hillary_must_be_defeated\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:07:43","slug":"how_to_convince_millennials_hillary_must_be_defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/20\/how_to_convince_millennials_hillary_must_be_defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convince Millennials Hillary Must Be Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/71916\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<section xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/image\/\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/xhtml\/\" xmlns:custom=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/custom\/\">\n<p>RUSH: I saw a bunch of friends I haven\u2019t seen in almost a year out on the golf course &#8212; both days, Saturday or Sunday &#8212; in Los Angeles.&nbsp; And without exception, they\u2019re all for Trump. They\u2019re all Republicans; they\u2019re all getting worried that Trump\u2019s blowing it, and they wish he weren\u2019t.&nbsp; I heard once, I heard twice, three times or four times, &#8220;Why, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the inspector general report came out pretty much just nailing Hillary to the wall on these emails and stuff, why was Trump off still talking about the Mexican judge?&nbsp; Why didn\u2019t Trump pounce on that?&#8221;&nbsp; There\u2019s another question: &#8220;Why has Trump stopped doing what got him there?&nbsp; Trump\u2019s not making sense to us anymore.&#8221;&nbsp; But, then inevitably, after all the complaints about Trump came observations about how the media is likewise building Hillary up and trying to destroy Trump and this kind of thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123729\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Millennials-Ready-Player-One-Hillary.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">My point here is that pretty much everybody I ran into wants Trump to win. And I\u2019ll tell you something, folks. At least among my circle (which is pretty big), the commonality is not so much that Trump is great.&nbsp; It\u2019s that we can\u2019t stand Hillary.&nbsp; Any more of this and we\u2019re done.&nbsp; And, by the same token, everything I just said, this stuff has got to stop.&nbsp; And that\u2019s why&#8230;&nbsp; I\u2019ll tell you, I haven\u2019t&#8230; (I\u2019m going to get myself in trouble here.)&nbsp; I was prepared. Whoever the Republican nominee was, was gonna get my full-fledged support.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t care who it was, because this has got to stop. Not just the policy implementation that we\u2019re getting.&nbsp; Don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s a standalone.&nbsp; The entire Democrat Party and their supporters have become full-fledged radical leftist progressives.&nbsp; And just like this man-on-the-street stuff from Brooklyn, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s common out there.&nbsp; You know, people say, &#8220;I used to know a lot of Democrats, and none of this &#8212; none of this &#8212; would be acceptable. None.&nbsp; They would have abandon the Democrats. It\u2019d embarrass \u2019em.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reason they don\u2019t is because we are the bigger enemy.&nbsp; Conservatives, Republicans, people running for office opposite Democrats are the bigger enemy.&nbsp; And I\u2019m here to tell you, they really do. In utter defiance of all logic and common sense, they really do.&nbsp; I\u2019m talking about your average, ordinary Democrat voter, progressive, liberal, however you want to categorize it. They really do believe that we represent a greater threat to their way of life than any militant terrorist, any military enemy.&nbsp; We do.&nbsp; Because of what they\u2019ve been taught.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, what they have been taught is an absolute corruption and perversion of this country\u2019s history, an absolute perversion and corruption of what the Republican Party and conservative movements are.&nbsp; They\u2019ve been taught this from their earliest abilities to understand teaching and learning.&nbsp; And this has all been by design as well.&nbsp; Millennials are a target here. You know, people are looking at Millennials and don\u2019t understand how&#8230; When did we lose them?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, this is the first 18-to-24 generation that people can remember in a long time who\u2019ve already cashed in the chips \u2019cause they\u2019ve figured out the country\u2019s best days are behind them, and so they\u2019re willing here to become wards of the state in order eat, have someplace to live, and get public transportation. When did that happen?&nbsp; When did young people stop desiring to make something of themselves?&nbsp; I hear this all the time, and I don\u2019t know how universal that is, but economic is clearly a factor here.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123737\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DemocratPlaybookSHORT.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">The government\u2019s taken more and more of what we call the economy.&nbsp; The pie that everybody hopes to have a piece of and expand is getting smaller \u2019cause government keeps taking big chunks of it, like for health care.&nbsp; They\u2019re trying to usurp the entire energy sector now.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t work.&nbsp; It has never worked.&nbsp; Socialism, communism, never works but people are willing to invest in it rather than let the Republicans get the White House.&nbsp; It boils down to, &#8220;The Republicans hate people.&#8221;&nbsp; That\u2019s just what I boils down to. &#8220;The Republicans don\u2019t like people!<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t like immigrants, they don\u2019t like women, they don\u2019t like the poor.&#8221;&nbsp; And you have a bunch of people believe it.&nbsp; I have a friend who has a Millennial daughter, so he studies them.&nbsp; His daughter and their friends.&nbsp; Let me see.&nbsp; He sent me a note based on his observations of what\u2019s important to them and how to reach them based on what he just heard them talking about.&nbsp; And he says that one of the big deals about Millennials&#8230; See if this sounds familiar, if you have a Millennial kid, or if you know a bunch of them. He said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let me just read his note to you.&nbsp; &#8220;I just had a weekend interacting with dozens of Millennials, Rush.&nbsp; And after listening to a weekend of it, in my opinion if Trump simply explained how his policies and proposals are sustainable and how Hillary\u2019s are not, I think he\u2019s go a long way to making significant inroads with them.&nbsp; If you own sustainability, you could end up owning Millennials.&#8221; And he sent me a study from Business Insider that buttresses the point made by what he heard, not just this weekend.&nbsp; His daughter\u2019s been a Millennial for a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been studying her and her friends.&nbsp; He says the underpinning of the Millennials he knows &#8212; and he\u2019s careful not to say that this represents all of them. But the underpinning of their philosophy of life stems from their views on the environment and food.&nbsp; The &#8220;mean&#8221; versus &#8220;nice&#8221; narrative will be Hillary\u2019s angle and the media\u2019s gonna play along.&nbsp; We\u2019re mean; Democrats are nice.&nbsp; We don\u2019t care about people.&nbsp; We don\u2019t love.&nbsp; They do.&nbsp; He says, &#8220;I think Trump can do an end run and talk directly to the Millennial audience.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, he has his own message, but I think it the dovetails with his core message.&nbsp; Obamacare\u2019s not sustainable, for example.&nbsp; They need to be told, because apparently he hears them, that word &#8220;sustainable&#8221; is apparently something that this group of people he\u2019s been studying has been taught. It\u2019s been drilled into their heads: Sustainability.&nbsp; The food supply, the environment, what have you.&nbsp; So the message needs to be transmitted in their terms, such as Obamacare isn\u2019t sustainable; open borders are not sustainable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123738\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GUN-fREE-sIGN-2B.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Gun-free zones are not sustainable.&nbsp; Women and women\u2019s rights and gays and gays rights are simply not sustainable in a country with a strong Sharia population.&nbsp; An emasculated military can\u2019t sustain a nation in freedom.&nbsp; It goes on and on.&nbsp; This is what they care about, Rush, propose as his note to me says.&nbsp; We\u2019re losing the country because liberalism isn\u2019t sustainable, and these kids don\u2019t know it.&nbsp; They think it\u2019s the exact opposite.&nbsp; Now, I don\u2019t know if that reflects similarly with things that you hear from Millennial-age people.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>But the study here, Business Insider: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-important-is-sustainability-to-millennials-2015-10\">An Emerging Retail Trend Is Key for Attracting Millennials <\/a>&#8212; &#8216;The [M]illennial generation has a wider range of choices than any generation before them,\u2019 Steve Easterbrook, Global Chief Brand Officer for McDonalds, told the Wall Street Journal in 2014. &#8216;They\u2019re promiscuous in their brand loyalty. It makes it harder work for all of us.'&#8221; Promiscuous meaning they don\u2019t have single choices.&nbsp; Like the rule of thumb used to be that if you haven\u2019t gotten to somebody by age 20&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Say you\u2019re selling beer. If you haven\u2019t got \u2019em hooked on Budweiser by age 20, you\u2019re never gonna get \u2019em.&nbsp; Beer advertising has always been aimed at young, just-arriving consumers. You don\u2019t have advertise for people their thirties and forties.&nbsp; They\u2019ve made their choice. They\u2019re set. This guy is saying that Millennials are not wedded to a single brand like previous generations have been, and that\u2019s what &#8220;promiscuous in their brand loyalty&#8221; means.&nbsp; It means that there are so many choices, so many fast food places, so many different kind of cars, so many different, that they don\u2019t just end up choosing one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123728\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HillaryMillennials-Clintons-2a.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;Many of the world\u2019s most successful consumer product companies freely admit they\u2019re struggling to bond with [M]illennial consumers, the 18-34 year olds now moving into their prime spending years. Today there are roughly 75 million Millennials in the United States.&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; We recently conducted a series of focus groups seeking insights into millennial consumers\u2019 beliefs and priorities. In the course of these sessions, [M]illennials told us they can strongly identify with consumer brands &#8216;&#8230; that have a status, or advertise the lifestyle that I like to live by, or that I would like to live by&#8230;\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Millennials also said they are drawn to brands that reflect their deeply held personal values,&#8221; and here is a consensus thought from two different Millennial focus groups. &#8220;&#8216;I like to think forward. For me, sustainability trumps convenience.'&#8221;&nbsp; So what this guy\u2019s hearing with his daughter and her friends in the Millennial, sustainability seems to be relevant.&nbsp; &#8220;To delve deeper into the value [M]illennial consumers place on sustainability, A.T. Kearney and The NPD Group conducted an online survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 200 hundred [M]illennial told us which (if any) of a company\u2019s sustainability practices are most important to them when purchasing an automobile, food, personal care products, consumer electronics, apparel, and household cleaning products.&nbsp; Our findings suggest the time may be ripe for consumer companies to take a fresh look at the value propositions they offer [M]illennials. For example, when marketing to young adults, many companies tout their commitment to corporate social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the tangible impact of this strategy is limited because while Millennials clearly do want businesses to be a force for good in the world, many seem to view CSR as mere table stakes.&#8221; Here\u2019s the pull quote: &#8220;Millennials\u2019 demand for sustainable products, not just socially responsible companies, represents an important shift in consumer priorities.&#8221; Now, what is this?&nbsp; What is sustainable product?&nbsp; Note would you off the top of your head, what are we talking about here?&nbsp; Millennials\u2019 demand for sustainable products.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, &#8220;[f]or example, when asked specifically about purchasing an automobile, the Baby Boomers we also surveyed most frequently said they would prefer to buy a car that is &#8216;made in America\u2019 &#8230; In contrast, [M]illennials most often said they want a car that &#8216;uses little to no fuel and is good for the environment&#8230;'&#8221; I\u2019m just telling you, they have bought climate change through and through.&nbsp; I read the first couple of chapters of a book that is huge among young people, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307887448?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307887448\">Ready Player One<\/a>. (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of it?&nbsp; It is eye opening.&nbsp; What we\u2019re up against with Millennials, what they think, what they\u2019ve been taught. They\u2019re not thinking. What they have been taught. This environmental, global warming, destroy the planet. They bought it &#8212; they have &#8212; hook, line, and sinker.&nbsp; It\u2019s not a question anymore.&nbsp; It\u2019s an ontological, certifiable truth full of currents.&nbsp; It\u2019s happening each and every day, and guess who is seen as not caring about it?&nbsp; (interruption) The Republicans.&nbsp; Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123739\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BookReadyPlayerOne.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:&nbsp; No, I\u2019ll tell you who told me about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307887448?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307887448\">Ready Player One<\/a>.&nbsp; Joel Surnow.&nbsp; I was playing golf with Joel on Saturday.&nbsp; He said, &#8220;Have you heard of this book?&#8221;&nbsp; I said, &#8220;No.&#8221;&nbsp; He said, &#8220;Well, let me tell you something, Spielberg&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp; He listed off a bunch of names of people getting ready to make the movie version of it, and it\u2019s the creme de la creme of Hollywood producers.&nbsp; I\u2019ve forgotten some of the names.&nbsp; And since I have, I don\u2019t want to guess.&nbsp; But I do remember he said Spielberg. They\u2019re all looking at producing it.&nbsp; Folks, I bought it on the golf course.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>I bought the e-book version on the golf course. It was on the 16th hole when he was telling about it, and I had some time Saturday night.&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; I started reading it.&nbsp; I read the first four or five chapters.&nbsp; I\u2019m gonna&#8230; I think I\u2019m gonna read an excerpt to you in the segment next hour before getting full bore into the Trump stuff.&nbsp; But it\u2019s from 2011.&nbsp; It\u2019s not a new book.&nbsp; It\u2019s five years old.&nbsp; It\u2019s fiction.&nbsp; It\u2019s dystopian.&nbsp; It is the opposite of utopia.&nbsp; It\u2019s&#8230; It\u2019s&#8230; Let me just tell you.&nbsp; The guy that wrote the book is Ernest Cline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 it received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association, which means it\u2019s aimed at kids, Millennials and young people.&nbsp; Spielberg is doing the movie adaptation.&nbsp; Production is starting in the fall.&nbsp; Most people in this novel&#8230;&nbsp; Now, it\u2019s sci-fi, understand all that, but don\u2019t forget the influence here.&nbsp; Most people live in what are called The Stacks.&nbsp; This is after global warming has destroyed everything.<\/p>\n<p>All the fossil fuels are gone because we did not start alternative energy soon enough, and so now what people live in are mobile homes stacked on top of each other 20 and 30 feet high in the suburbs of cities that are gone.&nbsp; They are wastelands.&nbsp; It\u2019s The Stacks, and these RVs in order to use up less land, these mobile homes.&nbsp; And the description of life in these things is absolutely horrid.&nbsp; But it\u2019s&#8230; As I say, it\u2019s science fiction, and that\u2019s the thing. Young people are gonna read this, and they\u2019re gonna combine it with everything that they have been taught so far and think:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the natural conclusion of where we\u2019re headed if we don\u2019t get a handle here on climate change and stop using all this fossil fuel, start getting into alternate energy.&#8221;&nbsp; Now, for the longest time they\u2019ve thought all this stuff was so ridiculous that people would be laughing at it like we did.&nbsp; But no. They\u2019ve been Hoovering it up as though it\u2019s gospel.&nbsp; So I think I will read just a little. This is what we\u2019re up against, folks.&nbsp; That\u2019s why this Trump versus Hillary? It\u2019s anybody versus Hillary.&nbsp; The Democrats have got to lose.&nbsp; They\u2019ve got to. This stuff has to be stopped, or&#8230; Well, there\u2019s always gonna be an America, but it may not look like one that you\u2019ve recognized.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, what I\u2019m doing here is trying to keep you up to speed on what younger generations are considering important and who they listen to, what influences them and leads them to vote the way they do.&nbsp; And it\u2019s always tricky because younger generations, by definition, are not as knowledgeable as their elders.&nbsp; They haven\u2019t lived as long.&nbsp; They don\u2019t have as many experiences. But that doesn\u2019t matter \u2019cause they don\u2019t believe that.&nbsp; They think they know everything, which we all did when we were their age.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But never mind that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that they are targeted by advertisers.&nbsp; They are targeted pretty much by every consumer group &#8212; movies, books, newspapers, music, you name it. They are the targets, because it is felt that by the time you get to 45, 40, you pretty much have made your consumer choices in terms of product, even though the vast majority of disposable income is in the 48-to-54-and-up demographic.&nbsp; There\u2019s far more disposable income there than in the Millennial group.&nbsp; The choices have been made, in large part, by the quote\/unquote adults.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the key to this is to remember that Hollywood\u2019s political, and Hollywood is a primary tool that\u2019s used, and the same thing with the entertainment industry wherever you find it. In books, TV shows, it\u2019s part of the whole agenda-advancement apparatus of the American left. It\u2019s the pop culture, where you don\u2019t find conservatism much all.&nbsp; So I\u2019m on point, is the thrust of my comment.&nbsp; I\u2019m not veering away from what\u2019s important here.&nbsp; Quite the contrary.&nbsp; I\u2019m using this as an opportunity to inform you of things that, otherwise, you wouldn\u2019t even know were going on.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123741\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RushLiberalismVsAmericanismRushDittocam2.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Unless you are parents and you stay closely involved with your kids to understand what they believe and why, particularly if it differs from the way you raised them.&nbsp; They are being bombarded by every potential industry that wants their business.&nbsp; And the Democrat Party is an industry that wants their business.&nbsp; Their &#8220;business&#8221; equals &#8220;vote.&#8221;&nbsp; And they have many avenues to reach them, and entertainment and pop culture is near the top of the list, if not the top.&nbsp; Education is another area that has been corrupted by the left for the express purpose of demonizing and destroying Republicans, conservatives, anybody that\u2019s not a leftist.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>So I was told about this book on Saturday and that Spielberg is producing the movie adaptation\/production starting in the fall.&nbsp; Now, normally people would be saying, &#8220;Come on, Rush, you gotta be&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp; They all liked the Beatles at one point; then they grow out of it and so forth.&nbsp; I don\u2019t look at that.&nbsp; I think it\u2019s important. This stuff\u2019s important.&nbsp; You want to figure out why they vote, why they think what they think.&nbsp; More importantly, you want to know what they think.&nbsp; So when I was reading this book, I had no idea what it was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When it was told to me, it was, &#8220;Rush, I can\u2019t explain it.&nbsp; You\u2019ve just gotta read it. But you\u2019ll be dazzled by the writing and so forth.&#8221;&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; So Ready Player One is from 2011.&nbsp; It\u2019s science fiction.&nbsp; It\u2019s dystopian.&nbsp; The author is Ernest Cline.&nbsp; It\u2019s gotten all kinds of awards.&nbsp; Let me just read to you an excerpt, because the book, I think, is a representation of what people already think &#8212; and to people who don\u2019t already think this way, it is going to be a huge influence or probably has been.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know how many young people have read it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s popular enough that Spielberg is making a movie out it.&nbsp; So here\u2019s the excerpt. This is Chapter 4, I think, if I recall.&nbsp; See?&nbsp; Did it mention that when I printed it out?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Chapter\u2019s not mentioned.&nbsp; But it\u2019s early on.&nbsp; It\u2019s as far as I\u2019ve gotten.&nbsp; The lead character and narrator is named Wade, and he\u2019s a nerd and a geek and an outcast.&nbsp; He has been laughed at and made fun of his whole life.&nbsp; He doesn\u2019t have any friends except fellow geeks, and really only one or two.&nbsp; Virtual reality is how they live.&nbsp; They never leave their homes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They go to school in virtual reality.&nbsp; Nothing is real.&nbsp; Everything is a VR headset.&nbsp; That\u2019s how they travel.&nbsp; It\u2019s how they go to school.&nbsp; It\u2019s how they date it happen they don\u2019t leave home.&nbsp; Everything is a VR headset.&nbsp; Because the real world is so bad, they have had to create fantasy lives and fantasy worlds.&nbsp; And this guy is&#8230; At this point in the book, he\u2019s lamenting that nobody told him the truth earlier in his life, the real truth about humanity and life and America. &#8220;I wish somebody had just told me&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123742\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LiberalRushLimbaughInstituteLiberalTeachers-b.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Now, imagine your 16, 17, 18, 25, 30 year old reading this, is the point.&nbsp; And imagine watching a movie made of this.&nbsp; &#8220;I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: &#8216;Here\u2019s the deal, Wade. You\u2019re something called a &#8216;human being.\u2019 That\u2019s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we\u2019re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you\u2019ll learn more about it later. &#8230; That story you heard?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total [BS]. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling to one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Oh, and by the way[,] there\u2019s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also [BS]. Sorry, kid. Deal with it. You\u2019re probably wondering what happened before you got here. An awful lot of stuff, actually. Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals so we didn\u2019t have to spend all of our time hunting. Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus. Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a &#8216;global civilization. But, honestly, it wasn\u2019t all that organized, or civilized, and we continued to fight a lot of wars with each other. But we also figured out how to do science, which &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;But that\u2019s where the bad news comes in. Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you [were born, Wade], and now it\u2019s pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we\u2019ve had to cut back. Big-time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it\u2019s been going on for a while now. Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we\u2019re still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be, in the Good Old Days, back before you were born. Things used to be awesome, but now they\u2019re kinda terrifying. To be honest, the future doesn\u2019t look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in &#8220;decline.&#8221; Some people even say it\u2019s &#8220;collapsing.&#8221; You\u2019re probably wondering what\u2019s going to happen to you. That\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123743\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RushEndISNotNear.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;&#8216;The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You\u2019re going to die. We all die. That\u2019s just how it is. What happens when you die? Well, we\u2019re not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You\u2019re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you\u2019re not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called &#8220;heaven&#8221; where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Also total [BS]. Just like all that God stuff. There\u2019s no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you\u2019re going to die someday and disappear forever. Sorry.\u2019 OK, on second thought, maybe honesty isn\u2019t the best policy after all. Maybe it isn\u2019t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he\u2019s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. I discovered all of that gradually over several years, and it still made me feel like jumping off a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily, I had access to the OASIS, which&#8221; is the virtual reality video game that everyone lives in in this book. &nbsp;The book\u2019s about the guy who created it and who died and left a giant game.&nbsp; Anybody who figured out the answer to his game would get his $240 billion fortune.&nbsp; So the book is about people that try to figure out the game, which is a&#8230; I haven\u2019t got far enough to know exactly what it is, but it\u2019s like deciphering a bunch of computer code to get to the end of the giant puzzle, and the story of the book is it\u2019s so hard, it\u2019s impossible to do. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, &#8220;The  kept me sane.&#8221; (summarized) &#8220;The video game allowed me to think I was living life.&nbsp; The video game allowed me, by virtual reality, to go to school, to learn history and so forth.&#8221;&nbsp; Anyway, it\u2019s just pessimism and it\u2019s dystopia, all rooted in the fact that global warming destroyed everything.&nbsp; And, of course, all of the traditions and beliefs that propelled and guided humanity were all a bunch of lies.&nbsp; Now, I know it\u2019s entertainment.&nbsp; I know it\u2019s a book.&nbsp; I understand all of that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But how many people already believe this stuff?&nbsp; You know as well as I do it\u2019s a huge number.&nbsp; How many people are already being taught this stuff in their classrooms?&nbsp; One of the most puzzling things for me is, when you have this contest between liberalism and conservatism, liberalism is doom.&nbsp; It\u2019s pessimism.&nbsp; It is the end of everything.&nbsp; It\u2019s how you\u2019ve been lied to; it\u2019s how you have no chance.&nbsp; The only prayer you have is voting for Democrats and relying on the government, because everything else is a fraud that will use you, eat you up, chew you up, and spit you out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liberalism is the most pessimistic thing I have ever seen successfully sold.&nbsp; Now, admittedly, it\u2019s not sold purely as pessimism, but it\u2019s filled with doom and gloom.&nbsp; Liberalism is nothing but doom and gloom.&nbsp; Liberalism is a way to justify never amounting to anything.&nbsp; Liberalism is a way to justify never accomplishing anything.&nbsp; Liberalism is what you invest in if you want to end up a schlub and have an excuse for it.&nbsp; There isn\u2019t any optimism in it.&nbsp; When you dig down, drill down really deep, there isn\u2019t any optimism.&nbsp; Everything\u2019s on the come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do this, do that, and we\u2019re gonna end up in this glorious utopia!&#8221; You talk about heaven not existing? 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