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RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number five.\u00a0 Mister Broadcast Engineer, I often don\u2019t do this, but as a prelude to delving into the Stack of Stuff I have here from the Brexit vote — and it\u2019s from all over.\u00a0 It\u2019s from many people in America, like CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour.\u00a0 By the way, do you know her real name is Christiane Amanpour, but it\u2019s like Joe Montana\u2019s name was not Joe Montana.\u00a0 Was Joe Montana, just one, it\u2019s Christiane Amanpour.\u00a0 And it takes a highly trained broadcast specialist to be able to say that.\u00a0 That\u2019s why when you watch CNN you\u2019ll hear them refer to her as Christiane because you add the Amanpour on there as one name, Christiane Amanpour, just putting a bunch of syllables together.Anyway, she\u2019s out there saying that the Brexit vote was a victory for xenophobia and a blow to the liberal world order, just making no bones about it.\u00a0 But what I want to do, I want to go back and replay a somewhat lengthy portion of a monologue of mine.\u00a0 You know, I\u2019ve played sound bites of myself in the past, but rarely of such length because I think it\u2019s, in some cases, it\u2019s a cop-out.\u00a0 In many cases just say it again.\u00a0 But, in this case, I was quoting from a piece I\u2019d found in the American Spectator by Professor Angelo Codevilla. It was called America\u2019s Ruling Class — and the Perils of Revolution<\/a>.\u00a0 It was July 19th, 2010…I remember reading this piece and being so jazzed after I had read it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of these pieces that every sentence of it you\u2019re going, “Yep, right on.” Every sentence just exactly what I think, I just never put into these kinds of words.\u00a0 The whole piece.\u00a0 Professor Codevilla eventually made a book<\/a> out of this, for which I was asked to contribute a foreword, which I graciously did, eagerly so.\u00a0 This is the entire political establishment around the world, the Drive-By Media, all of the smart people have just this weekend been awakened by the Brexit vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Again, one of the themes of the whole Stack I have today is how shocked, how stunned the establishment, the ruling class around the world was at this vote.\u00a0 They really didn\u2019t have any idea.\u00a0 So in advance of getting into that and setting it up, I want to read — I spent 25 minutes on this.\u00a0 I\u2019m not gonna do the whole thing.\u00a0 This about two and a half minutes, maybe 2:45, again from July 19th, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE:\u00a0 We, in what Mr. Codevilla calls, the country class, meaning not the hick class, but the country, we are the country. The ruling class is a minority, and I have touched on this. We are being ruled, i.e., governed by a minority. Less than 10, 15% of Americans agree with the thought process, the philosophies, the goals and objectives of the ruling class. And we in the country class, we believe in merit. We rise or fall based on merit. We believe that a good GPA is what\u2019s necessary to get you into college.<\/p>\n

We believe that performing well on the job is how you get promoted and how you get paid well. Not true in the ruling class. In fact, that is looked down upon. It\u2019s sort of like the old money versus new money business. The old money, inherited from robber barons of the past, great wealth. The people who inherited it don\u2019t do anything for it, but it has great lineage. People who have earned great wealth rather than having inherited it are shunned by the old-money people because it\u2019s working class to have earned money.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just not done. It\u2019s considered gauche, it\u2019s considered filthy. And it\u2019s much the same way with merit throughout the ruling class. You don\u2019t have to be the best. In fact, if you do the right things and say the right things, you can be an abject failure meritocracy-wise and still be promoted.<\/p>\n

This resonated with me in so many ways. I grew up wanting to be in radio, and when I moved to New York in 1988 my objective was to become the most listened to person on radio. Not top five, not top ten, but the most listened to. And I did it. It didn\u2019t count for anything with those people. And yet there are people who never have had any audience, who still don\u2019t have any audience, who are widely accepted members of the ruling class, who are considered very powerful simply because they walk the walk, they talk the talk, they kiss the right rear ends and do all of this.<\/p>\n

But the point is these people are a minority, and they have no relationship to the rest of us in the country class. And somehow we are now being ruled by these people. We\u2019re not being governed. We\u2019re being ruled by them. And they have certain beliefs right now. Among them is that the United States is the problem in the world. Among them is that those of us not in the ruling class haven\u2019t the smarts, haven\u2019t the ability to know what\u2019s best for ourselves. They have to do it for us.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I take it back.\u00a0 I misunderstood what this was.\u00a0 I read the headline here in my own transcript.\u00a0 I thought I was gonna be reading from Codevilla.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It was the way I set it up.\u00a0 This is the monologue I started before reading from Codevilla\u2019s piece in the American Spectator back in July of 2010.\u00a0 And that went on for a while before I even got around to reading it.\u00a0 It resonated. I could do my own monologue on this piece that he did that was every bit as long as the piece that he wrote.\u00a0 It was that powerful.\u00a0 It was that right on the money. (interruption) It\u2019s the same thing.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s exactly the same thing.\u00a0 Brexit is the same thing.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not just Brexit.\u00a0 Brexit is just the latest example of what we are all up against when we consider ourselves to be the country class.\u00a0 That\u2019s Codevilla\u2019s term, by the way, versus the ruling class. Elites versus commoners, the establishment versus nonestablishment, what have you.\u00a0 And it\u2019s like anything else.\u00a0 Now that it\u2019s been discovered and has — well, not “discovered” is the wrong term — now that it has been illuminated, there\u2019s a parallel.<\/p>\n

Back when this program started in 1988 — I\u2019m going to be brazenly honest here, folks — well, I always am, but, I mean, I\u2019m gonna say something here that I haven\u2019t said very often.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said it before, but not very often.\u00a0 In 1988, everything was fine.\u00a0 There were three networks:\u00a0 ABC, NBC, CBS.\u00a0 There was PBS over there, too.\u00a0 There was one cable news network, and that was CNN.\u00a0 And that was it.\u00a0 That was the broadcast media.<\/p>\n

You add to that the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, USA Today, and all the other big city dailies, and that was the media.\u00a0 And every bit of it was left wing.\u00a0 The one exception was the Washington Times.\u00a0 National Review magazine.\u00a0 But, I mean, these paled in comparison to this monolith.\u00a0 It was all leftist, it was all liberal, but they never said so.\u00a0 They were just what was.\u00a0 They were the media.<\/p>\n

Now, everybody knew the media was left and everybody talked about liberal media.\u00a0 Don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0 My point is that they themselves always denied it, said they were objective, said they were fair.\u00a0 There was no liberal media.\u00a0 There\u2019s no bias.\u00a0 You\u2019re just a bunch of conservative crackpots or however they decided to characterize it.\u00a0 The point is, in 1988 there wasn\u2019t any national alternative media.\u00a0 Then my program started in August, and in a few short years there were other first local conservative shows, and then a couple of my guest hosts got their own national conservative talk shows.<\/p>\n

And about the early nineties, the internet exploded, with websites to be followed by blogs and a rash of new websites that were decidedly conservative\/libertarian, but alternative.\u00a0 And then in 1996, Fox News came along.\u00a0 So some nine years after I started, Fox News came.\u00a0 Then MSNBC got going.\u00a0 And so we had an alternative media.\u00a0 And my point is that with the invention, discovery, appearance of an alternative media, the existing left-wing or dominant media\/mainstream media all of a sudden began to acknowledge who and what they were and entered into an open competition with us this happen.<\/p>\n

They began losing audience, obviously.\u00a0 It became bifurcated.\u00a0 They began shedding advertiser dollars because some advertisers fled and joined the New Media.\u00a0 They all of a sudden had to compete, whereas before they had a monopoly.\u00a0 They were it.\u00a0 If you wanted news, you got one interpretation.\u00a0 If you didn\u2019t see CBS, doesn\u2019t matter. Watch NBC.\u00a0 If you missed that, doesn\u2019t matter. Watch ABC.\u00a0 If you missed that, no big deal. The New York Times and Washington Post will catch you up.<\/p>\n

The point is, it was all the same, not only what they reported and covered, but what they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 All of that changed.\u00a0 And I think it ushered in a new partisanship that was made possible, not by us, but by the left responding to us.\u00a0 The media entered the battle.\u00a0 And, as such, became even more left wing, became even more biased, became even more partisan.\u00a0 But beyond all of that, they dropped the illusion that they were objective.\u00a0 And they came to join us in open battle against us.\u00a0 Well, I think…<\/p>\n

And this has created its own new kind of partisanship; it\u2019s undeniable.\u00a0 Same thing now that\u2019s happened with the ruling class. For the longest time, they were there. They\u2019ve always been there. They have always been the establishment. It\u2019s always been a bunch of elites. It\u2019s always been a bunch of people that probably were no the best at what they did, but they went to the right schools, they had the right family lineage, they came from old money, which made them special.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve all been trained by the various educations they\u2019d had to join government at various levels and to maintain the unique position of power that the elites and the establishment had, even though they were a decided minority in terms of numbers.\u00a0 Well, now Codevilla\u2019s piece came along seven years ago, and we\u2019ve had a couple of midterm elections where the Republicans won in landslides where the Republican Party pretended it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

And all of a sudden just as there was an actual admission that there was a left-wing media, now the establishment is admitting who they are and what they are. And they\u2019re openly flaunting who they are and what they are. And they have joined us in battle mocking us, ridiculing us.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost a repeat of what happened with the advent of conservative alternative media, what that did to the mainstream media.\u00a0 Now the elites and the establishment, however you want to characterize them, have begun to behave in way almost identical to way the Drive-By Media did when it was exposed.<\/p>\n

And that is to engage in battle to destroy us, to defeat us, in addition to whatever else they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 And this is where we find ourselves now.\u00a0 Now, that\u2019s a very, very shortened version of all that\u2019s transpired in a whole number of years.\u00a0 But it\u2019s why we have Trump.\u00a0 It\u2019s why 16 other establishment-type candidates — or 15. There was one other outsider in there who didn\u2019t make any ground.\u00a0 It\u2019s why the Republican Party is having all kinds of problems, and why George Will has quit the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because the… Well, that\u2019s its own story.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 But still, it\u2019s a result of the establishment not having anymore 100% unadulterated power over all of this.\u00a0 They now have to fight for it every day, and they don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 It\u2019s beneath them to have to compete.\u00a0 It\u2019s beneath them to have to compete.\u00a0 It\u2019s beneath them. And the Brexit vote comes along and the Trump candidacy, and all these things are illustrating in many ways just how out of touch and unconcerned about it the elites are.<\/p>\n

These are the people that were at one time considered the best and the brightest, and people looked up to \u2019em and respected \u2019em and trusted \u2019em. They trusted \u2019em to run the college education program, trusted \u2019em to run the student loan program, trusted \u2019em to run the banks, trusted \u2019em to run real estate and housing, trusted them to run the institutions that defined our greatness. And they\u2019ve done nothing but botch it.<\/p>\n

In the old days when they botched it, it was just chalked it up as something unfortunate.\u00a0 Now people have a great sense of awareness of this divide that exists: Ruling class\/country class. It\u2019s just like the divide that exists between standard, old-fashioned media and alternative media.\u00a0 And it\u2019s led to incessant partisanship.\u00a0 Not bad in and of itself, don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that critically.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now, the point is that the media now has to fight with us to win, and the establishment now has to fight with us to win.\u00a0 They used to not have to do this.\u00a0 They had monopolies. They ran it. There was nothing anybody could do to stop it. They had such power, the establishment did, that they could prevent uprisings from starting before anybody knew they were even brewing.\u00a0 But they can\u2019t any longer, and they\u2019re scared and they\u2019re mad. And these are the kind of people, folks, that are where they are not because of merit.<\/p>\n

If they lose it, they can\u2019t embark on a plan to regain it, because the memberships they have… Like, in the establishment, the network, the clubs are all the result of having the right last name, the right pedigree, any number of things like that.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with merit.\u00a0 So they lose it.\u00a0 How do they get it back?\u00a0 This is why in their minds, they\u2019ll have nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a strange world.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t… Myself, I wouldn\u2019t be comfortable in a world where merit was not a determining factor.\u00a0 I just… I don\u2019t know that I would ever feel whole.<\/p>\n

If I were part of that club and was is there for things that had nothing to do with me particularly — I mean, I had not really done anything to earn it, in the traditional sense of earning — I don\u2019t know how I could — I\u2019d never think it was real.\u00a0 I would always think it could be snatched away from me if it wasn\u2019t based on any kind of substance.\u00a0 And I think that\u2019s where they are now.\u00a0 And they\u2019re not gonna let it go.<\/p>\n

This Brexit vote. We\u2019ll get to this Stack. They\u2019re hell-bent on redoing the vote or just ignoring it or discrediting it somehow.\u00a0 And I hope the “leave” crowd understands what they\u2019re up against.\u00a0 Because it still just isn\u2019t gonna happen.\u00a0 There\u2019s already mumblings now that there\u2019s so much guilt on the “leave” side, “Maybe, you know, we might have been a little hasty.\u00a0 Not sure we really want to do this.”\u00a0 You can even see those kinds of stories out there.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fargo, North Dakota.\u00a0 This is Dan, you\u2019re next, sir.\u00a0 Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, Rush.\u00a0 Thanks for having me on.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 You bet.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER:\u00a0 So I just wanted to touch on a point here that has a lot of aspects to it so I\u2019ll try to stay concise, but it seems to me that when the country was founded and the Constitution was drafted, there was a general more homogeneous outlook on the vision for this nation. Whereas today the nation is, for better or worse, full of far more diverse values and perspectives that create a sense of discord among the populace.\u00a0 And it seems to me that the elites and the ruling class, as you call them, actually feed off of that sense of discord, as we vote them more power day by day. So it was kind of a breath of fresh air the other day to see the Brexit vote and see that there was an entire nation, or at least 50% of a nation that\u2019s willing to step away from a centralized power like it did.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Wait, wait, wait whoa, whoa, whoa.\u00a0 Wait a minute, now.\u00a0 Boy, you got a gold mine of good points here.\u00a0 In the first place, the Brits did not renounce socialism.\u00a0 The Brits are still socialist.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t renounce that.\u00a0 I made a point last Friday of saying, even though we would love to see this as a rejection of liberalism, we can\u2019t lie to ourselves.<\/p>\n

What this was was a bunch of people saying, “We are not going to stop being Great Britain.\u00a0 We are going to hold onto our nation.\u00a0 We love being British.\u00a0 We love that there is a Great Britain, and we\u2019re not gonna let it be dissolved.\u00a0 We\u2019re not gonna let it be overrun by out-of-control immigration by people in charge of not caring what happens to British people.\u00a0 We\u2019re not gonna let ourselves be subjected to a bunch of people ruling us, who don\u2019t care that there is a Britain or a Germany or a France or whatever.\u00a0 We\u2019re not gonna be run by a bunch of people who don\u2019t believe in nations.”<\/p>\n

This was nationhood.\u00a0 This was nationalism speaking up, piping up.\u00a0 This is a bunch of people fed up like here with immigration, fed up with the attempted abolition of nationhood, which is what the EU is all about.\u00a0 The EU — I don\u2019t know, folks, if you have traveled over there, but once you enter the EU, that\u2019s the last time you have to use your passport.\u00a0 You enter the EU in France, you can go anywhere. You don\u2019t have to show your passport. You go to Great Britain, you don\u2019t need to show your passport, you go to Germany, because the borders don\u2019t exist.\u00a0 That\u2019s what they were rising up against, but they did not reject socialism.\u00a0 That has not happened yet.\u00a0 Now you had another point, but I\u2019ve gotta wait on that because I\u2019m sadly out of time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Our last caller, Adam, said that at the founding, the days of the founding we were more homogenous.\u00a0 Not necessarily so, either.\u00a0 Not necessarily so.\u00a0 There were striking similarities between then and today.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just quickly on the idea that things are tougher today. The last caller\u2019s theory was a good theory. That the reason people are turning to all-powerful government is there\u2019s so many factions, there\u2019s so many different people, groups competing for goodies that it takes a central authority to hand \u2019em all out, to pass \u2019em all out.\u00a0 And it\u2019s an interesting theory in and of itself.\u00a0 The left has succeeded in grouping people.<\/p>\n

We are less a nation of individuals today than we are a collection of grievance-related groups.\u00a0 And the grievance-related groups all think they\u2019re victims of something.\u00a0 And most of them think they\u2019re victims of white Christians.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the way it\u2019s been explained and told.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s who founded the country, it is said.\u00a0 There\u2019s so much ignorance on the founding of this country. There\u2019s so many lies and BS that have been told about it. People like Obama and the left believe that the country was set up by a bunch of rich white Christians specifically to keep themselves in the money and power, in perpetuity, and expressly denied all peoples of color and women and LGBTs to lives of secondary minority status.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve educated people that\u2019s how the country was founded.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve had, I don\u2019t know now, two and a half generations have grown up thinking the country\u2019s, at best, flawed, at worst, corrupt, and it\u2019s now time to pay back. It\u2019s time now to get even with those people who have set themselves up to always be in power with all the money.\u00a0 Rich Christians epitomized by people like Mitt Romney and Donald Trump and George W. Bush and all that.\u00a0 You get the drill.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s how it manifests itself.<\/p>\n

So we have groups, and the groups are made up of what they think are minorities, and they\u2019re all victims of something. Victims of powerful forces that are standing in their way of happiness, standing in their way of a good time, standing in their way of economic security, standing in their way of something.\u00a0 So the theory goes that with this much division and this many people unhappy with grievances that they\u2019re unable to address themselves, they\u2019re unable to overcome these obstacles, they\u2019re unable to overcome this powerful majority that\u2019s denying them everything, that they\u2019ve all turned to government two-day two things:\u00a0 Punish the majority and take everything away from \u2019em and then give it to the victims.<\/p>\n

And the guy\u2019s point was when you have this much division, when you have this much unhappiness, this much despair, people are naturally gonna turn to government, not themselves in order to make things fair and be economically equal and what have you.\u00a0 Whereas, he said, in the days of the founding you didn\u2019t so much have this much division.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t all these grievances. And folks, it\u2019s something that\u2019s misunderstood about our early days.<\/p>\n

As vicious as you think the media is today — and it is — it was no better back then.\u00a0 And some would tell you that it was worse.\u00a0 Some would tell it was viciously worse. The pamphleteers and the — there were a lot of people that called themselves media back then that weren\u2019t, just as today there are people who do the same.\u00a0 But, I mean, the personal insults and the personal attacks in national politics were vicious.\u00a0 It\u2019s never been sweetness and light.\u00a0 It\u2019s never been hunky-dory.<\/p>\n

And, a case could be made, even though they didn\u2019t do polling back then, a case could be made that at the time of the Revolutionary War a majority of Americans opposed it.\u00a0 A majority of Americans even back then didn\u2019t want to get rid of that big teat from Great Britain.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t want to take the risk of fending for themselves.\u00a0 So we were not homogenous.\u00a0 I mean, to even get the 13 colonies to agree to form the United States, there had been all kinds of accommodations made with the Southern colonies on slavery.\u00a0 Otherwise there would have not been a union.<\/p>\n

You go back, you read John Adams and you read some of the early founders, that ripped \u2019em a new one.\u00a0 The whole slavery issue and what they had to do to found the country tore \u2019em apart.\u00a0 So what they did when they wrote the Constitution, they built in what they hoped would be the mechanisms by which the words of the Declaration and the Constitution would apply to everybody.\u00a0 And it was brilliant in that regard.\u00a0 The people that founded the country and what they put together, what they made, the United States of America, is nothing like it\u2019s being taught today.\u00a0 It was truly brilliant.\u00a0 It was magical.\u00a0 It was miraculous.<\/p>\n

It was well-intentioned and it was among the greatest feats in human history.\u00a0 And those who\u2019ve studied it have that kind of reverence for it, which is why it\u2019s so painful to watch all of these groups that run around and don\u2019t even know what they\u2019re talking about, whine, moan, complain about unfairness and so forth.\u00a0 The fact is that it was a struggle to unify this nation.\u00a0 It was a struggle to declare independence.\u00a0 It was a struggle to fight the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 It was almost lost on several occasions.\u00a0 It was never homogenous.<\/p>\n

Now, you didn\u2019t have divisions along the lines of immigration, but you stop and think of the Louisiana Purchase and then the nation moved west.\u00a0 You ever wondered, you watch these movies of the Old West and Judge Roy Bean and all these guys, it was going on at the same time on the East Coast, people were running around in kneesocks and britches and tricornered hats and so forth.\u00a0 How did those two things go together?\u00a0 Well, they did.\u00a0 The cavalry was running around as the national police force, capturing Indians and so forth and putting them on reservations.<\/p>\n

There were all kinds of factions. There were all kinds of different groups of people being swept up into this new place called America, whether they liked it or not.\u00a0 Then states came along and ratified statehood and all their diverse populations joined.\u00a0 So, no, it\u2019s never been a cakewalk and we\u2019ve never, ever been totally unified.\u00a0 We never, ever will be.\u00a0 It\u2019s a constant, ongoing struggle, and that\u2019s what politics is.\u00a0 It\u2019s not how we manage or affairs but it\u2019s the quest for power that will define what kind of country we have and that\u2019s why you hope you have representatives of your point of view willing to actually fight for it, which a lot of Republicans haven\u2019t felt for a while.<\/p>\n

The Democrats never stop fighting, just like the old communists, they never go away.\u00a0 They never give up, never accept defeat, and just like the Brexit clowns over the European Union, by no means have they conceded defeat.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna lash out. They\u2019re gonna try to punish the Brits.\u00a0 There\u2019s a faction even now that wants to kick Britain out of the EU today.\u00a0 Screw this “two years” business.\u00a0 You want out?\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 Get the hell out.\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to punish your ass for leaving us like this.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t wait to do it.\u00a0 All kinds of different attitudes about it now.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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