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<\/a>RUSH: A friend of mine sent me a quote last night from John Adams<\/a> in a piece he wrote, ‘Thoughts on government,\u2019 from 1776. It kind of got my attention. I want to read this to you. ‘Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.\u2019 Now, I\u2019ll tell you why this struck me, not only because it\u2019s brilliant, and not just because it\u2019s right. All speculative politicians agree, the happiness of society is the end of government. Hello liberals and a lot of Republicans. It\u2019s our job to make people happy. We\u2019ve gotta come up with programs to make people happy. But moral philosophers, others agree that happiness of the individual is the end of man. It\u2019s up to us to be happy. Can\u2019t make anybody else happy. Government CAN\u2019T make makes us happy. We have to do it ourselves. <\/p>\n

So, the conclusion is, ‘a form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.\u2019 Not the one that will win, but the one that is best. I remember back in the 1980s during the Reagan years, I remember so many people — and I got back into broadcasting in 1983 — I remember hearing people say Reagan made \u2019em feel good about themselves. Reagan made \u2019em feel good to be Americans, coming off the malaise of those four disastrous years of Jimmy Carter, made people feel good, made people feel happy. Reagan himself was optimistic and of good cheer, and inspired that. According to John Adams here in thoughts on government from 1776, that kind of government\u2019s best, not the one that always wins. Contrast that with Democrats, the Democrat Party today and the American left. The word happiness is not in their vocabulary. They are not happy. They don\u2019t want you to be happy. They are constantly angry and enraged. In fact, their anger and rage has become the way in which they connect. It\u2019s become a virtue. It\u2019s how liberals identify themselves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sort of like emperor penguins, they all look alike. Emperor penguins mate, and then the female lays the egg, and the male warms the egg while the female goes miles and miles and miles and miles away to feed because she\u2019s been starving. She comes back and those males are all huddled with the eggs, the females come back and the only way they can recognize their mate is by the individual sound the mate makes, and that\u2019s how liberals end up identifying each other. Rage is the mating call. Anger, irrational hate is the mating call. They share it with as many people as possible. They are miserable people and they want you to be. They are trying to keep this country in total chaos and tumult with the never ending Drive-By Media reports of every disaster that is happening 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Everything is another disaster; everything\u2019s falling apart; everything\u2019s going to hell in a hand basket, from global warming to the war in Iraq to the Bush administration, everything is apocalyptic. There is nothing happy. There is no happiness in the left. They don\u2019t exude it, they don\u2019t inspire it, and they don\u2019t try. In fact, they don\u2019t want people to be happy because they think angry and rage and fear are the way they will get elected. And it may be. They succeeded in November in congressional and Senate races. So the antidote to all this rage and anger is good cheer and optimism. Some people don\u2019t have the guts to be optimistic because the daily bombardment of the apocalypse from global warming to the war in Iraq to the war on terror to we\u2019re spying to we\u2019re torturing to whatever, you hear this enough and you start half believing it if you\u2019re not strong.<\/p>\n

So a candidate comes along and says, ‘You know what? I\u2019m going to start talking about how great the country is. I\u2019m going to be optimistic and positive. Well, maybe not because it\u2019s so unrealistic nobody will believe it.\u2019 So they get cowed by the, again, false image and so forth that\u2019s been perpetrated by these lies coming daily from the Drive-By Media and the American left. But I just want to tell you, folks, there\u2019s no sin in happiness. A lot of people are afraid to be happy when they think there\u2019s so much misery. A lot of people are afraid to have a good time or feel guilty when they do because they think so many people aren\u2019t. I don\u2019t know if you know this or not, watching television, but there\u2019s a horse stuck waist deep in mud somewhere in Texas. They\u2019re out there trying to rescue the horse. Human beings are. Do you think the horses are going to stop eating today because one of their own is stuck in the mud? Think the horses are going to be depressed? No, they\u2019re horses. We are not horses. Sometimes people just have a fear of enjoying themselves when they think other people aren\u2019t. It\u2019s like you talk to people about the economy, ‘Oh, yeah, yeah, I\u2019m doing great, but I\u2019m worried about my neighbors, though. I keep hearing on the news that people are going to lose their jobs.\u2019 They don\u2019t want to act happy, and so, doom and gloom, pessimism, they are infectious, too, and they more than that are limiting. They limit people\u2019s ability to feel happy and so forth or to exude it, anyway, because they think they\u2019ll offend somebody who\u2019s not happy, and the libs count on this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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