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RUSH: Lana in Greeley, Colorado, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Hello, Edward.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Historically, what nations have managed to pull themselves back from the brink of internal self-destruction? I don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet, but we seem to be sliding in the wrong direction. What did it take, and what can we learn from them, historically?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that we\u2019ve learned<\/emphasize> anything. We learn it, but whether we apply the lessons is another thing. If I may be so bold, let\u2019s talk about Ancient Rome. Is that something on your mind?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, that\u2019s what I meant. <\/p>\n

RUSH: The rise and fall of the Roman Empire. They didn\u2019t see what was coming and they couldn\u2019t save themselves. It happened to the Greeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The only thing that gives me comfort, is it took Rome quite a long time to fall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it did. In terms of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, there\u2019s a huge series of books about it, massive, massive volumes, and the history on this is very extensive and complicated. It would be impossible to simplify. Suffice it to say that most people, with their limited historically perspective, believe that Rome — the Roman civilization — was destroyed from within, the debauchery, perversion, the general lack of any kind of surviving morality, a court system for justice right and wrong and power run amuck and so forth. That\u2019s what most people believe. It would be difficult I think to compare Ancient Rome to the United States case by case. One of the reasons why, is I simply don\u2019t know if there were people in the Roman society in a political sense that wanted to bring about the destruction of Rome as it existed for the express purpose of reordering it in such a way that would have made it less grandiose and less powerful than it was. In this country, that\u2019s what we face. I\u2019m not talking about the rank and file. There are a bunch of people that are participating, just for the sake of discussion here, in a series of activities that are bringing about a crumbling of the moral code, a dilution of the sense of right and wrong and all that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what I\u2019m referring to then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: The controls will happen if global warming people get their way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, I was going to go a different way with that. This group compromises at least, and maybe more, subdivisions. At least two primary groups. The one group is the leadership group, and they are actively seeking the destruction of the United States as it exists. They don\u2019t like capitalism. They don\u2019t like free elections. (They lose them.) They are attempting to insulate their ideology from election results, by putting activists in courts and on the bench, the Supreme Court, federal judge, appellate judge, these sorts of things. They are populating the bureaucracies of government with career people who will be there regardless who wins elections, and they are not willing to risk elections. They\u2019re trying to insulate themselves from the voice of the people, so to speak, to continue to try to remake America in their own image. What is it about America they don\u2019t like? What they don\u2019t like is this sense of inequality, the so-called income gap, the wage gap, the wealth gap, the discrimination, the unfairness, the fact that some people are better than others. You can see this in every walk of life. You can see it in the school system. You can see it in government. You can see it legislation that elected Democrats propose. That\u2019s the leadership group. The other side — and that would include people that are trying to use global warming or any other environmental issue as a means of destroying capitalism. You\u2019re very perceptive if you recognize that, because global warming is simply the latest acid rain. It\u2019s simply the latest. It\u2019s no different than the Soviet nuclear threat back in the seventies and eighties. We all had to live in perpetual fear that we were going to be destroyed primarily because of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was irresponsible, he was going to put his finger on the button and wipe out the Russians, going to cause massive retaliation and we\u2019re all vaporized.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that could go back to the fifties. I remember the fifties.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, exactly. But the point of this was to keep the American people frightened and scared and thinking that they were responsible for this chaos and for this looming destruction. Global warming is just the latest issue. I\u2019ve always said the militant environmental movement is the new home for displaced communists once the Soviet Union fell by the wayside, as it was known then. It may be making a comeback under Putin under a different name, but we\u2019ll talk about that in due course. But it has all of the elements. The elements are: ‘We\u2019re destroying the planet. We\u2019ve got a limited amount of time to save it. We are responsible for it. We need to pay higher taxes. We need bigger and stronger government to fix these problems that we are causing. The Chinese are not causing the problems. The Indians are not causing the problems. The poor in the Third World are not causing the problems. Castro is not causing the problems. Hugo Chavez is not causing them. It\u2019s the United States. The focus of the world, via the UN, is on us and reordering our way of life. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re too big. We\u2019re too big a superpower. We mistreat. We discriminate. We oppress peoples of the world with our imperialism. All of this stuff. Now, the other group is the sad sacks who believe it. They are not activists. They\u2019re just average citizens. For whatever psychological reasons, they buy into this. In the first group I was talking about — you\u2019re worried about the moral decay and the vanishing line that demarks right versus wrong — there are a lot of people who are not activists in this, but they\u2019d love to go through life not being judged. They\u2019d love to be able to do whatever they want to do and not have one light of judgment rain down on them. These are people, by the way, that don\u2019t believe in God, otherwise they couldn\u2019t possibly live in an existence where they think they could escape it. (Judgment, that is.) So they\u2019re just the serfs and they serve the leadership well. They soak up all this stuff and they end up living it, and then some of them actually join activist movements and protests designed to bring about through government or force, these various changes. You could list all these social upheavals that are underway right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What turns it around?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think what turns it around is younger generations. In this country — and I don\u2019t know how long this country is going to last. I have a feeling, though, it\u2019s going to outlast Rome. It\u2019s going to outlast all of these societies because what I think happens, I think it has happened over the course of our existence, and I think it\u2019ll happen again — at some point the children of these generations that you and I are talking about that are participating in what you and I would describe as the decay or the destruction, are going to grow up and not want to live like that. They\u2019re not going to find anything attractive about it. Imagine the generation, the first generation that grows up and is told, ‘By the way, the chance to earn the American dream is officially ended. It will not be allowed anymore because we have found out that achieving the American dream was possible for only a few. Too many were left out, and so we\u2019re going to have outcome based results in earnings and wages and jobs and so forth, and now you\u2019re going to be assigned…\u2019 The first generation that grows up and is told that or is made aware of it, as they look out on the horizon and see the evidence of what\u2019s possible in this country, they\u2019re going to revolt against it. I think these things are cyclical. The key to it all, the key to my prediction manifesting itself, is freedom, and that\u2019s why I look at global warming as an assault on freedom, and what\u2019s especially hideous about it is that it is so seductive that it convinces average, ordinary Americans to give up their freedom.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and you have the school system and parents not being parents to counter that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s another thing. The school system is another area, the public education system and the university system is where leftists and liberals are attempting to insulate themselves from election results because they run these factories that produce, interact and indoctrinate these young skulls full of mush. To me freedom is the key. The right to own private property is as important, if not more so, than the right to free speech, because if an individual can\u2019t own property, by definition who\u2019s going to own it? The government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Does this come back to, ‘I get to have some of my own toys?\u2019 I mean, is that how you reach them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the kids?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I don\u2019t have kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, like when they took away the LEGOs in the classroom because that was property. ‘Oh, gee, what\u2019s happening?\u2019 I\u2019ll let you talk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They didn\u2019t take away because it was property. It\u2019s because it was teaching a lesson on property ownership that was bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, see, I don\u2019t know what the parents of those kids, I don\u2019t know what the reaction to that was. I think there was a hullabaloo about it out there, but these things, they happen slowly, and the encroachment is gradual. But I remain optimistic predominantly because there is this new media now, call it alternative or what have you, that\u2019s fighting this never ending, incessant leftist propaganda. I don\u2019t care, even though they won the election last time around, their job is much more difficult today that it used to be. You nailed another problem, though, and that is parents who turn the raising of their kids over to the schools, because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — they don\u2019t want to mess with it. Like in my day, the school, the teachers were never wrong. I came home and complained about what a teacher said, my dad said, ‘The teacher is obviously right.\u2019 You know, respect for authority. Today, let a teacher look wrong at a kid and the parents show up and they want to get the teacher fired, and demand, ‘How the hell can you do this?\u2019 and so forth. Get this. If the school says, ‘You have to come watch Gore\u2019s movie with your kid or your kid might suffer grade degradation,\u2019 parents go!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oooh, grade degradation, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grade consequences. ‘If you don\u2019t come watch this, too, your kid may not get as good a grade in my class, otherwise the kid would,\u2019 and the parents go do it? I mean, the schools win. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re on the brink of destruction or collapse from within. Every generation, from the founding of this country, has thought it\u2019s in the last days, every generation\u2019s had people who think, ‘Oh, it\u2019s never been worse. Ah, we\u2019re going to hell in a handbasket.\u2019 I don\u2019t think that the depravity of human behavior is any different today or any greater than it\u2019s ever been. We just know more about it because of media, and there\u2019s more media and there\u2019s more movies and they\u2019re depicting this stuff. But if somebody wants to tell me, I just refuse to believe that the kind of debauchery or perversion or whatever that we see chronicled in television and movies is something new and didn\u2019t happen in the fifties with Ward Cleaver. Let me tell you what Ward and June were doing their with their neighbors. Everybody thinks that it was clean and pure as the wind-driven snow back then, and it\u2019s never been clean and pure as the wind-driven snow since Adam and Eve. You\u2019ve always had this kind of behavior but somehow in this country we\u2019ve always risen above it. Look it\u2019s this simple (I\u2019m way long in this segment and I\u2019ve gotta take a break) when it\u2019s time to panic, I\u2019ll tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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