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RUSH: Susie in Chattanooga, Tennessee, thanks for waiting, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just want to tell you thank you for teaching me every day. I learn from you and then I teach my kids, and they are also learning from you, and they\u2019re home today so they\u2019re getting to listen to you. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re going to get to hear the Thanksgiving story —<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: — and I feel like I\u2019m just talking to a friend because I listen to you so much. I\u2019m a 24\/7 member <\/a>and so I get your Limbaugh Letter<\/a>, and I was so excited to see that article this month with Joel Rosenberg<\/a> that you did, and I\u2019m reading his books. I do happen to agree with most of his theories. I think he\u2019s very accurate, even though they are fiction, I think a lot of what he bases it on is very accurate, and I do sometimes feel like that affects my optimism about our country although I love this country, and I think it\u2019s the greatest country in the world, how do you juggle that sometimes? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s, I think, what\u2019s affecting you about what Joel said in the interview when he writes. His books are based on biblical scripture, and he takes situations occurring in the Middle East and applies them to biblical scripture and says that there\u2019s prophecy. In fact, one of his books is entitled The Ezekiel Option<\/a>, and so you\u2019re being affected, and I don\u2019t blame you, you\u2019re free to read and draw what conclusion you want. But any time anybody starts thinking about the apocalypse, that we\u2019re in the last days, and I assure you that every generation of human beings since the beginning of time has thought that, and the last days are not upon us yet. The thing that you have to do out there, Susie is not think about that, because if it\u2019s true, there\u2019s nothing you\u2019re going to be able to do to stop it anyway. All you can do is prepare yourself for your immortality and your eternity in the event it happens, which is I\u2019m sure something you do in the course of the day to day living of your life, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right and I\u2019m not afraid. That\u2019s what I wanted to say: I have no fear because of my faith, but I have a hard time talking with people and being optimistic at the same time sometimes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, most people are not optimists in general, even without a war in Iraq and even without Democrats winning elections, most people are not optimists. That\u2019s why books on positive thinking make millions and books on how to fail are not even written, because everybody knows how to do it. We all know how to be pessimistic. It\u2019s something that comes naturally to humanity. It\u2019s one of the objects of life to learn to overcome that, but a daily awareness or consciousness of the apocalypse if you believe in that, I mean certainly it\u2019s going to — I know you\u2019re not depressed, but what\u2019s the difference? You say you\u2019re pessimistic out there; you can\u2019t live your life that way. That\u2019s living your life for the worst, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t really feel pessimistic. I just felt like I know you are so optimistic when you talk about the country and the future of our country, and then the tone of the article with your conversation with him, you seem to admit how bleak it looked, and I guess that was my question, do you struggle with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wonder how my editors edited me in that, because I don\u2019t remember sounding pessimistic. I was trying to draw Joel out on what he thought and what he was trying to say. You can look at the situation in the Middle East right now and you can be pessimistic about it. I\u2019m not always up. I\u2019m not always hunky-dory and cheery and so forth. I\u2019m like anybody else. I have faith, and maybe faith is a better word here than optimism, because I have faith in this country. I don\u2019t see any evidence yet not to. I\u2019m not going to lose faith in the country because of the election or a single election. The American people have fixed their mistakes in the past, and some of the people they employ to fix the mistakes fail them, and those people that fail to fix the mistakes — i.e., elected officials — will be sent packing. And this is one of the things that happened here. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Don\u2019t think the country\u2019s embraced liberalism or Democrats in this election. It didn\u2019t happen. The Democrats really benefited from the Republicans, basically rejecting their own voters in enough places and states to cause a problem. But I think, for example, you look at the war on terror, a lot of people say, ‘Oh, my God! Nobody\u2019s willing to fight this thing,\u2019 probably not right now. It\u2019s going to take a lot more than one 9\/11 on this land in our country for people to rally. But one thing I have learned in my short little spec of time as a human being on the planet as an American, is that the American people do respond to leadership. When the leadership is there, we\u2019ve been absent leadership at the highest levels for quite a while now on some things that are important, particularly in the House and the Senate, if you want to look to political leadership as an example. <\/p>\n

When things become obvious, the American people will rally to the cause. At the same time the Democrats are doing everything they can, the American left, to sort of destroy that spirit in the American people, but I just look at the history of the country, even my little time here as an America, and every day is a better day in this country than the day before in most respects. We\u2019ve always had cultural rot. We\u2019ve always had up and down economic times, we always win some elections, lose some, our sports teams disappoint us, then they create euphoria for us, but there\u2019s always an ebb and flow emotionally to life as a human. It\u2019s learning to manage those flows and keep the highs not as high, the lows not as low as they can be. If you look at the country in any number of ways, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, you\u2019d have to say life in America today is better than it\u2019s ever been.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Certainly the opportunity for that is better than it\u2019s ever been. Well, now, that, in terms of your kids, that ought to excite you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re worried about the future that they\u2019re going to grow up in. My parents did, too. I will never forget, Susie, my dad, after John Kennedy won the election in 1960, I\u2019m nine years old, my dad tells my brother, ‘You boys are going to be slaves if you don\u2019t stop these communists and liberals.\u2019 He feared for our future. And his formative experience, World War II and the Great Depression. It was understandable he felt that way, and as I said yesterday, he couldn\u2019t relate to my life today. He would not believe it in any aspect, for the good!<\/p>\n

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