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RUSH: Gary in Acton, Massachusetts much the hello, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to offer a hypothesis about why the left is so hostile to traditional religion.<\/line>RUSH: Go ahead.<\/line>CALLER: The left has prospered controlling information flows, primarily through the old media and the government schools. Traditional religion doesn\u2019t pass through those filters which makes it very difficult to spin or to fit into a template. If you want to coin a phrase (cell breaks up).<\/line>RUSH: No, you\u2019re absolutely right, and I think this was never brought to the forefront in more vivid terms than during the funeral week of Pope John Paul II. Would you look at the abject fear that was throughout the leftist secular community in this country over the outpouring of love and adoration around the world for that man — and what I found just delicious about it was that that outpouring of love and devotion, that tribute, was brought to the world via the cameras of the secular left. They were looking through their lens finders and they were seeing their version of hell, and their lens finders and their cameras were bringing to the world the truth of a large body of people on this planet. And I said then, “You know, it became crystal clear to me. The Catholic Church is a competing Supreme Court to the American secular left. The pope is a chief justice they can\u2019t control, and the Catholic Church and all of Christianity is a court that they can\u2019t pack and they can\u2019t infiltrate and they can\u2019t change. Yet they keep trying.” The pope dies, what\u2019s the focus of the mainstream media and the American left all week? “What\u2019s the church going to do to modernize to let us become members? Or, “What\u2019s the church going to do to modernize to become more liberal so that we will like them?” It\u2019s not the church\u2019s mission. So they look at modern religion as a competitor. It\u2019s a threat, folks. It is a threat because it can\u2019t be controlled and it can\u2019t be changed. It can\u2019t be reordered. I mean, these are all examples. These are all examples of who the left is, but explaining the “Why?” That\u2019s probably going to escape me my whole life. Intellectually, it will escape me. <\/line>Now, you can say, “Okay, you have two worldviews, capitalism versus socialism, slash communism,” and the American left looks at socialism\/communism and says, “You know, we want to cast our lot with that.” You look around the world where that lot has been tried and you see utter misery. You see murder, mass killing, walls built around countries to keep people in. You see economic disparity like you\u2019ve never seen. You see poverty. You see environmental destruction like nowhere else in the world, in communist\/socialist countries. You see unemployment; you see no initiative. You see absolutely no vitality whatsoever — and yet you still see that as the dream when you have this other example, capitalist America — right in your backyard, probably making you very affluent as a liberal — and yet you look at this the rest of the world where socialism and communism rules and you see a greater opportunity. So what is it that causes that vision to occur? <\/line>“Well, there\u2019s a better way, Rush. It can be better for everybody.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, you know, that\u2019s Utopianism. That\u2019s just fantasy, and maybe they\u2019re all fanaticizing. Maybe they\u2019re unable to deal with the hard, cold realities of the human existence. They\u2019re unable to deal with the hard, cold realities of life. I mean, folks, it gets absurd. Here: How much money…? I want to add it up. I want a research project for somebody on my staff because Bush and Blair have just come up with another 600-plus million? Six-hundred-some-odd million, okay, to Africa — and Blair says, “We gotta do this,” and Bush says, “We gotta do this.” Now, I want to know how many billions <\/emphasize>this country in foreign aid through the UN, whatever other agencies, have been sent to that country, or anywhere else. It\u2019s not folks in Africa per se but Africa is the focus today because Bush and Blair are going to send a bunch of money over there. Sending money over there is not the answer — and, in fact, the left today is making fun of the amount. “Oh, it\u2019s too small. It won\u2019t matter,” and then they come out and say, “That\u2019s less per capita than what the Netherlands sends.” No matter what we do it isn\u2019t good enough. No matter what how much we do it isn\u2019t good enough. The left is in such a contradictory position. They used to always stand for freedom from oppression. <\/line>They used to always stand for human rights, and yet they are perfectly content for Saddam Hussein to remain in power: raping, murdering to the tune of three to 500,000 people because they hate George Bush so much. Intellectually it is inexplicable. I can\u2019t understand it. Emotionally you can, and then for those <\/emphasize>people who have these convoluted views, and no matter what news this countries makes they always see the bad side of it, the negative side of it, they\u2019re always quick to criticize this country. This country is first to the blame list for them. You just have to wonder, where does this come from? And these are people that are very affluent themselves. I know there\u2019s guilt associated with all this. There\u2019s a whole lot of psychological explanations for this, but intellectual, I just can\u2019t see them. There is so much contradiction. There\u2019s so much hypocrisy. There is so much, like I say, redefining terms. A “minority” used to be a loser when the Republicans were the minority. Now the minority is the winner. The minority rights constantly redefining terms so that they remain in their own minds the majority and the ones with primacy, superiority. Jeff in Detroit<\/a>, welcome to the program, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Ah, Rush, great to be with you. It\u2019s quite an honor. I appreciate taking the call.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: A couple of points real quick. You know, I hear that caller earlier come in and talk about the liberal values, and I couldn\u2019t have been more happy. Finally somebody said everything and he want for one thing, socialist, and you picked that up so I appreciate that. But the one myth I want to dispel with is that, you know, conservatives aren\u2019t for the environment. That is the biggest lie and propaganda piece that\u2019s been perpetrated to people. We just try to take a sensible look at things and say, “Hey, can we operate sustainably? Can we do things in conjunction with our environment, and…”<\/line>RUSH: Now, wait.<\/line>CALLER: — you know, use a little sensibility, I guess.<\/line>RUSH: See, but you\u2019re missing the point. They don\u2019t actually believe — well, you have some liberals do, but I mean the liberals that are in charge of coming up with these arguments and these terms, the idea of presenting conservatives and Republicans as anti-environment is mainly and merely a strategy. What they try to do is inculcate fear and crisis. You know, they\u2019re results oriented. There\u2019s an editorial today in the Washington Post about the marijuana decision, and they get it all right but they have no idea why they\u2019re right. I may spend some time analyzing their position for you on it but I refuse to believe that they actually believe all these things. They say them. Now, some of the rank and file and some of the fringe kooks that have become the mainstream do believe it, but not all of them do. Nobody is monolithic. No one group is monolithic with the same set of values and views and opinions that you can attach from person to person to person within that group. But I think their strategy in describing one thing conservatives are racists, sexist, bigot, homophobes. That is clich? that has resulted from a time-honored technique of discrediting opponents because the left cannot beat opponents in the arena of ideas. The left cannot win intellectual arguments. So all they can do is discredit the people on the right who are making opposing arguments, and in the process they hope to shape the minds of those not paying close attention, and as you know as a conservative it\u2019s worked from a time over the years. How many of you have run into people and you\u2019ve announced you\u2019re conservative and they think you hate everything. They think you hate everybody. It\u2019s just a means of discrediting because they can\u2019t win the argument. But they are starting to lose the argument now precisely because they can\u2019t make it. I\u2019ve said this over and over again. I think they got lulled into a false sense of security. <\/line>For 50 years they ran the show and they had the mainstream media never challenging them but merely amplifying and echoing what they said. We on the other hand, those same 50 years, trying to gain prominence, gain a foothold and eventually become the majority. We had to learn to express our views, explain to people in a persuasive way what we believed and at the same time we\u2019re being challenged and impugned and laughed at, mischaracterized by the left and the media, and yet we forged ahead. After 50 years we\u2019ve gotten damn good at telling people why we think what we think. The left hasn\u2019t. The left can\u2019t tell anybody why they think what they think. All they can do is discredit us and try to scare people into thinking we somehow mean harm to them. They can\u2019t explain their positions. All they can do is articulate them. That\u2019s why they\u2019re losing elections. I mean none of this is particularly upsetting to me but it is an interesting intellectual exercise to try to explain them, and I defy anybody to be able to do it. I mean you can come up with examples. But to give me a reason why a 35-year-old human being in America living a prosperous life hates this country and accuses this country first, assumes this country is the enemy, I defy you to give me an intellectual explanation that I will accept. There isn\u2019t one. There are only psychological and emotional reasons and they make no sense whatsoever. You can go nuts trying to understand it. It\u2019s best to laugh at it and understand that it all means they\u2019re losing. No matter where you look they\u2019re losing. No matter where you look, other than their strongholds. But even in their strongholds there\u2019s some trouble because there\u2019s some defectors. Some liberals can\u2019t abide it anymore. We\u2019ve had their columns on this program. They can\u2019t abide the intellectual hypocrisy. They can\u2019t abide the dishonesty. They can no longer associate themselves with it. They can\u2019t explain it themselves, and they\u2019d rather not. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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