{"id":235154,"date":"2017-05-26T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235154"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:00:01","slug":"a-millennial-on-why-millennials-are-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/26\/a-millennial-on-why-millennials-are-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Millennial on Why Millennials Are Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: And we go back to the phones. Luke in Fredericksburg, Virginia, I\u2019m glad you waited. And welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega Millennial dittos and let me just say it\u2019s an honor to speak to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I wanted to offer some insight on why so many of my Millennial friends are not conservative. And I think the main reason that I\u2019m kind of seeing, at least in my small sample size is that they don\u2019t believe in pure evil. We all know you as the mayor of Realville, and I think when they\u2019re living in their parents\u2019 basement, they don\u2019t realize that when you build a border wall, you\u2019re keeping out people that are gonna harm our country.<\/p>\n

\"\"You know, when you go ahead and execute on gun control, what you\u2019re doing is you\u2019re stopping law-abiding citizens from being able to protect their families. They don\u2019t realize that in a communist or socialist situation, that you can shuffle around the money, but the thing is is that the people who are doing the shuffling are gonna take a dip into the pot, and the second point to that is it\u2019s a flawed economic system that doesn\u2019t work because it takes away from contributors and gives to people who are like our example case here, Millennials living in their parents\u2019 basement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I\u2019m not sure I got the last part of that, takes away from contributors and gives to people who are like Millennials — I\u2019ll come back to that. Your first point about them not being aware or believing in genuine evil, you may on to something. Look, we\u2019re talking about people that are technically between 18 and 34 but we\u2019re focusing on 25 to 35 here in that age-group. They\u2019re out of college, they\u2019re adults. You know, college clowns are college clowns and they\u2019re in the middle of indoctrination or propaganda. But let\u2019s talk about those that are out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That theoretically should be working and some of them may be. I think that you\u2019re on to something. I think because they\u2019re 30 — I remember when I was 30, naturally a much different outlook on life than I have now. It\u2019s not possible to equate it to, you can\u2019t possibly at 30 have the life experiences and education and understanding that you have when you\u2019re 50 or 40.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or 60. But they have had formative things happen. They do not know their country at war. When you say they don\u2019t understand evil, they don\u2019t see militant Islam as evil. They don\u2019t see Islamic terrorism as evil. If they\u2019re 30, 911, 2001, they were teenagers, there\u2019s been so much propaganda about that. The United States largely has been blamed for these acts of terror, presidents like Bush with their torture have created terrorists and so forth. They\u2019ve really been given a dose of anti-Americanism, well, I think since they first started going to school but it intensified once they got to high school and college.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the not having an evil understanding of it is true. Your illustration of not understanding that a wall is to keep bad people out, they look at a wall as keeping good people out. That what you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. It just goes to show, you know, the thing is that what they don\u2019t understand is the bad guys don\u2019t play by the rules, and they assume that everyone plays by the rules and if we just made better rules–<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me stop you there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think not only do they not understand evil, I think they\u2019ve been told the bad guys are the wrong people. They don\u2019t properly understand who the bad — you know who they think the bad guys are? You and me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. Yeah. Isn\u2019t that funny though? ‘Cause we\u2019re the ones that are paying the taxes and going to church every Sunday and that type of thing. So it\u2019s funny how that works out like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That doesn\u2019t get you anything in their world, going to church? Are you kidding? Believing in God? No, no, no, look, this is worthy of consideration, to the extent that you want to spend time understanding it. Young people have traditionally skewed left through generation after generation after generation. Exceptions to that, of course. I am one. I never have been a liberal. I rebelled against my parents, but not that way. Never been a liberal. Constitutionally incapable of being a liberal. Who knows why.<\/p>\n

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Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn\u2019t go to college. That\u2019s how I rebelled. My rebellion was telling my dad, “No, you\u2019re wrong, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s best for me. I\u2019m not gonna waste my time in college.” You know the story. He thought he was an abject failure \u2019cause he didn\u2019t convince me to go to college. I didn\u2019t rebel against my dad\u2019s economic status. I didn\u2019t rebel against what I thought were old-fashioned, archaic moral values. I didn\u2019t rebel by going out and wrecking the car and getting drunk and being irresponsible.<\/p>\n

I rebelled against their assumption they knew better than I did, what I wanted, and what I needed. I\u2019m just trying to say I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I\u2019ve never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I\u2019ve not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.<\/p>\n

Sacramento, California, which was my first big break in radio, that\u2019s after years and years and years and years and years in radio. It\u2019s finally working because I\u2019m finally being allowed to do a radio show the way I always wanted to. That was accidental too. They ended up ignoring me \u2019cause they thought they had hired something more important, which was a godsend for me. By the time I was working and paying off they couldn\u2019t dare stop it, it was too successful.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of people in that radio station, Sacramento, California, they were uber-leftists. They all invited me to dinner one night, and I thought it was a genuine legitimate invitation. And it wasn\u2019t. It was an invitation to dinner where I was essentially put on trial and mocked and laughed at and made fun of by about eight or 10 people. They were typical arrogant, condescending, smart asses that knew everything. There was a little jealousy going on because I was having some success, and it was the first time in my career.<\/p>\n

My only point is that I have faced uncounted, incalculable number of efforts to convert me. There\u2019s no college professor who could do it. In my case, I\u2019m just telling you, it would not have ever, in my life, been possible to convert me to liberalism. So I sometimes live in a little wonderment about how these persuasions to make people liberal and leftist work so easily. And it has to be something at home. Parents have to be leaning that way. I have to stop. I\u2019m right in the middle of a good part, I know, but I have no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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