RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have received the thoughts of a professional who asks to remain anonymous, a professional in analyzing the personalities, mind-set and so forth of people like our shooter here in Las Vegas. And I just want to share with you his thoughts. He\u2019s requested anonymity, and I\u2019m happy to offer it and provide it. You might have heard of him. He\u2019s a writer. But he has researched this for his work.<\/p>\n
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And basically he thinks that an element of this, not the explanation total or complete, but an element of this is that too many people in our society do not take responsibility for how their lives turn out. It\u2019s not just they don\u2019t accept personal responsibility. It is they don\u2019t think they have anything to do with how their lives have turned out, and they become embittered.<\/p>\n
He says, “I have studied these cases. Clearly this was premeditated slaughter. If the pattern holds — and we don\u2019t know yet that it will — but if the pattern holds, we will likely find out this guy\u2019s life was coming apart, that he scapegoated society or others for his problems and failures and his hopelessness, and that he decided to get even and go out in a blaze of glory. It\u2019s the same nihilistic evil again and again, blaming others for your problems and seeking to sow destruction in revenge against the unfairness and injustice of it all.”<\/p>\n
This sounds like it would apply to the guy that shot the Republicans practicing for baseball, Steve Scalise and others. He was embittered and enraged. He says, “I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll ever be able to stop people from seeing themselves as victims of society, who then get angrier and angrier and want to strike back. But a healthy society does not encourage an outlook of grievance and helpless victimization, but ours does. People who take personal responsibility for their lives do not these kinds of things.”<\/p>\n
These are the thoughts from my expert and I think there\u2019s a lot of truth there. We know that we live in a grievance society where grievance has become its own form of politics. It\u2019s spreading. Grievance is taught on many college campuses. Grievance is always treated as justified. Well, I take that back. If you are a white male or white Christian, your grievance probably will not carry the weight of others. But for the most part, those who have grievance and incorporate politics into their grievance generally are always said to be justified.<\/p>\n
In fact, I might say that one of our political parties has actually, as a matter of strategy, tried to create as many victims of whatever as they can, and this party has then presented itself as the solution, the answer. And of course the problem with victimology, the problem with victimhood is once you adopt it, once you accept that you\u2019re a victim, a lot of things happen.<\/p>\n
You are immediately, in your mind, you are free of blame. You are free of responsibility. And you also are free in believing you don\u2019t have a chance at succeeding or achievement or accomplishment because the deck\u2019s stacked against you. ‘Cause you\u2019re a victim. It\u2019s-a-made-to-order political profile for a political party which seeks to gain power on the backs of such people. “It\u2019s not your fault. We\u2019ll fix those who did this to you. We\u2019ll get even with those who did this to you.”<\/p>\n
So you adopt that you\u2019re a victim of something. You are a generational victim of slavery. You\u2019re a generational victim of masculinity. You are a victim of male patriarchy. You are a victim of extreme right-wing politics. Whatever. Once you adopt it, once you accept it, once you yourself admit and acknowledge that you\u2019re a victim, you are immediately saying you have no responsibility for yourself, and you have no ability to triumph, because no matter how hard you try and how hard you work, the deck is always going to be stacked against you.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a very artful and, for the Democrat Party, it\u2019s a very successful political strategy to create as many victims as you can and then group them and then acknowledge their grievance and then promise to get even. Here\u2019s what happens, though. They somehow never get the satisfaction of whoever it is that did whatever was done to them, there never is any revenge. The party claims they\u2019re gonna get even, but it never happens. The people you end up blaming continue to live and continue to live prosperously or happily or whatever ways in which you don\u2019t live, and so your anger festers and your resentment festers.<\/p>\n
And all of that is used as a political advantage by the party which encouraged you to accept the fact that you\u2019re helpless and not responsible because powerful forces have been arrayed against you. It\u2019s a recipe for unhappiness. It\u2019s a recipe for what is said here. Scapegoat society for others, for your failures, your hopelessness, and it builds and builds and builds and builds and builds to the point you gotta get even, and you take mental instability and throw it in the mix. “Well, then, Rush, why doesn\u2019t everybody grab a gun and start –” The point here, not everybody is unstable.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, well, well, well, well. The Daily Caller with an interesting dispatch here. The shooter\u2019s name is Stephen Paddock, P-a-d-d-o-c-k. His brother is Eric Paddock, lives in Florida, says this is horrible for them, had no idea, please don\u2019t blame my mom. But the shooter\u2019s brother said that their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI most wanted list.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got a copy here of the actual most wanted list profile of Patrick Benjamin Paddock, and it says at the bottom of it that he was psychopathic. The brother says that Stephen Paddock wasn\u2019t religious, wasn\u2019t political, he wasn\u2019t anything. We don\u2019t understand this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here is Christine in Nashville, Tennessee. Welcome. Glad you called. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. I know you touched on this earlier about the left winger who went and shot up the Republican baseball players. Being from the Tennessee area, knowing a lot of country music fans, overwhelmingly country music fans that I know — can\u2019t speak for everybody — are either conservative or Blue Dog Democrats who would have voted for Trump. Just putting that out there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you mean — wait a minute, now. Wait, let\u2019s define terms. ‘Cause some people use Blue Dog Democrats affectionately and some use it as a derision. How do you mean Blue Dog Democrat?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think they\u2019re more conservative, more fiscally responsible.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so we call \u2019em Reagan Democrats.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, Reagan Democrats.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So gun control has fallen off the media scope. This guy coming in here using this automatic weapon, he pulled that back in, and he\u2019ll get to take out some conservatives and Reagan conservatives, Reagan Democrats. I know his brother said he wasn\u2019t political at all, but obviously he didn\u2019t know him very well. So that was a thought I had. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m just way too paranoid.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Wait a minute. I want to understand what you\u2019re actually saying. Are you saying — correct me if I\u2019m wrong here — are you saying that the audience, the crowd was at a country music concert, and therefore most of the people were probably conservative or lean to the right or, as you call them, Reagan Democrats. And so you\u2019re looking at this as a bunch of those kind of people get shot at a country concert, and so you\u2019re thinking, “Well, the shooter might have a bias or an animus against such people?” Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That these people were targeted because of their perceived political preferences? Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Possibly. Possibly. That was a thought I had, because that\u2019s how the media has pushed everybody. Nobody can be just American anymore. You can\u2019t be American anymore. You either have to be conservative or liberal. And if you\u2019re conservative, you\u2019re wrong. That\u2019s how I see it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If you\u2019re conservative from the South, like country music, you\u2019re all kinds of potential wrong.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You sound like a hick. You came from states that had slavery. That\u2019s your point, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s my point. And it may be off the wall, but that was one of my first thoughts was, “uh-oh.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, they\u2019re saying they haven\u2019t got a motive yet, so your theory is as good as anybody else\u2019s, until we know for sure. I just to want make sure I understand. You\u2019re thinking that this guy actually might have targeted people because of what he thought their political beliefs would be, which would then say that he obviously has some political —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — leanings even though his brother says that he wasn\u2019t religious or political at all and this is a total shock —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, he doesn\u2019t know his brother, obviously doesn\u2019t know his brother. If he knew his brother, he\u2019d have seen all the red flags going up.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You think so?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I hope that if I was in the situation where someone I was close to was going off the rails, that I would notice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, the brother lives in Florida.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Didn\u2019t he live in Florida, too?<\/p>\n
RUSH: For a time, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, we need more backstory on this —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You\u2019re also saying that you don\u2019t think a guy who seemed perfectly harmless and normal one day picks up an automatic gun, slaughters 50-plus people, that you would know if somebody is —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, he\u2019s obviously nuts. But there could be more motivation to it than that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s my thought.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. It\u2019s fascinating that you\u2019re linking the kind of concert, you know, country concert with the audience you would assume gathered —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. And he waited for the — wasn\u2019t Jason Aldean the final performer, the big headliner?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Waited for him to come on so that the crowd would be at its largest.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. There was a lot of thought put into this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So it\u2019s meaningful that the guy didn\u2019t try to take out people attending a rock ‘n\u2019 roll concert, you think the —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, to me, yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. We\u2019ll put that in the hopper. Christine, I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no. Seriously. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Donna in Winter Haven, Florida. I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next here on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you. I\u2019ve listened to you speak my mind for years, and I thank you from all of us who agree with me. The main reason I was calling was to say if the shooter lived, he would have received his rights. The dead and injured would have no rights. I think it\u2019s best that we kill the shooters because it should start making them think twice. They\u2019re not gonna get any publicity, and they lose their life. I\u2019m sure that this shooter probably had some kind of a disease or something and he was a victim, he wanted to get even with the world for the fact that he got, what, cancer, something like that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it a minute. Do we know that he had cancer or are you just speculating?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I\u2019m thinking they ought to do an autopsy and find out if maybe Soros or the liberals paid him off and he took the money because maybe he was dying. Figured he\u2019d go take somebody with him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m fascinated here how people think. One thing here. You think that the shooters knowing they\u2019re gonna die would maybe provide a little bit of incentive for them not to do it, that they\u2019re not gonna get any fame. They\u2019re gonna get fame. Fame is a poison to people who don\u2019t have it and want it. Do not doubt me on this. It is such a poison that some people will die to get it, and they will tell themselves over and over before they die, before they do what\u2019s gonna get them killed, “I\u2019m gonna be famous. People are finally gonna know me!”<\/p>\n
Killing them, I think many of them are prepared for that, are willing to die if their grievance is such that they want it known and they want it known that they\u2019re getting even and if they\u2019re gonna become famous. A lot of profilers, professional profilers will say, “No, no, no, we want to take these people alive because we want to get to the motivation. We want to understand why they did it.”<\/p>\n
Now, a lot of people, the hell with understanding why they did it. It doesn\u2019t matter. They did it! There\u2019s no justification. If you want to know why for scholarly research, fine. But if you want to know why for remedial purposes in others, don\u2019t waste your time. Because some people just can\u2019t accept that there is natural evil. A lot of people think everybody is innocent and clean and pure as the wind-driven snow until something poisons them or ruins them. And that\u2019s not true. There is pure evil, born that way and there\u2019s nothing you can do about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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