RUSH: Towner, North Dakota. This is Derek and great to have you. Hi, Derek. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s an absolute honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir!<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019m a 30-year-old Millennial. I have my own business. I am a devout Catholic. And I am a conservative. Now, that being said, I know that I am in the minority of my generation. Now, my two questions for you: What\u2019s the future look like? And how outnumbered are we actually, Millennial conservatives?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Millennial conservatives, you know, you probably are somewhat outnumbered if you\u2019re gonna compare yourself to a universe of Millennials, universe that is college educated, you\u2019re certainly gonna be outnumbered there. But the thing that a lot of young people don\u2019t know and haven\u2019t lived long enough to know it, is that their attitudes are gonna change as they grow older. You can\u2019t help it, yours too. You can\u2019t help it.<\/p>\n
As you live longer, you experience more. And you keep learning. If your mind remains open, you\u2019re gonna continue to learn and experience things. And you\u2019ll modify certain beliefs that you have. So where you might be the minority now, it\u2019s impossible to say that that\u2019s gonna remain constant and static, because we don\u2019t know what events are gonna take place and what effect they\u2019re gonna have on people in terms of unifying what could be a cataclysmic event. It could be any series of small things.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, but as of right now, I mean, what do you think? I mean, what is your opinion that if something like that doesn\u2019t happen, where are we at? Do I have to look for my kids, Generation Z?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I know. Look. Hang on. Well, keep the radio on. I\u2019m gonna have to answer this in the top of the next hour because we\u2019re simply out of time right now. But don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m gonna address it when we get back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So our last caller, 30 years old, Millennial, devout Catholic, obviously a self-identified conservative, and he wanted to know what the future holds for him, people his age. And, you know, these are tough questions. I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019ll tell you why they\u2019re tough, is because, on the one hand, I and a lot of people — I don\u2019t have kids; I know a lot of people that do, who are scared to death of the future simply by watching the news, by watching the portrayal of people on the left, Democrats, and what they are doing to culture, to education and the fact that they have zero tolerance for anybody that doesn\u2019t think like they do.<\/p>\n
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And that they now have control of much of pop culture, which is media, music, movies, TV shows, and so forth. And all the things that accompany that. And, on the other hand, here this is the United States of America. And it\u2019s not going anywhere. There\u2019s always gonna be an America. What kind of America it\u2019s going to be is the question.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019ve been around, as founded, for over 200-some-odd years. And there are challenges every year. There are constant challenges to this country\u2019s existence from within our own borders. And a lot of people try to address this reasonably, without being overly reactionary. And a lot of people think things are happening today that they haven\u2019t seen happen in their lives, meaning the drift to the left by so many people.<\/p>\n
And that drifting leftward incorporates a lot of people who are violent with their intolerance, and they\u2019re making no bones about the fact that they don\u2019t like America, as founded, and they don\u2019t like anybody who\u2019s had anything to do with being the majority in this country since the days of its founding and that those people have become targets and those people are held up as those responsible. They\u2019re blamed for all of the so-called injustices that are being chronicled in America.<\/p>\n
Pessimism is a natural thing. You have to fight it. I have to. Pessimism, I think, is a natural human emotion that doesn\u2019t take much to trigger it. And pessimism can easily dominate optimism.<\/p>\n
Naturally, optimism is something that even itself can be ridiculed. If you\u2019re in the midst of a period of time or events where it seems hopeless or things are just trending in the worst direction and somebody comes along and is optimistic, they\u2019re ridiculed for not being realistic. They\u2019re ridiculed for not being able to see the truth of what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve found that pessimists want to be joined in their pessimism, and so optimism is not, in many cases, welcome. But I naturally tend toward optimism, and I have some quaint old beliefs that right and justice will triumph in the end. But there are more and more people that are losing faith in all of that because they see the cultural disintegration that\u2019s taken place, and it\u2019s being sponsored, it\u2019s being promoted.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a political party that has now as its political agenda the transforming of America away from what it was founded to be. And mystifyingly, that political party seems to be picking up a lot of advocates. It seems to be getting a lot of people voting for it, which has a lot of people scared because it doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n
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Why would you want to tear this country apart? Why would you want to rip it to shreds? Why would you want to blame this country? Why would you want to open the borders of this country and let anybody in, especially those who are not going to assimilate, who are not going to try to become Americans and promote America for what it is? Why do you want to open the borders and let people in who may not like America either and have as their objective to change it or what have you.<\/p>\n
And will that prevail? Is that ultimately gonna be our demise? And there\u2019s just no way of knowing, except if you look toward the past, it hasn\u2019t happened yet, despite a long trend line. If you want to judge where America\u2019s going and what country it\u2019s gonna be by virtue of election results, it looks bad. There is a map that is becoming increasingly blue, it\u2019s become increasingly blue on our southern border and in all of our major population centers, the big cities. And there\u2019s a genuine and true cultural divide where there is no overlap where people have things in common.<\/p>\n
If I asked you to name something that unites all of us as Americans, what would you name? Where do we overlap with our political opponents? And I say political because part of the battle is that the Democrat Party and the American left are politicizing everything. They are politicizing leisure activity. They\u2019re politicizing hobbies. They are politicizing things that have nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re turning every aspect of American life into a political issue and death fight and they are demanding acquiescence to it. They are demanding that you agree. They are demanding that you not even oppose. They\u2019re simply demanding that you accept whatever it is they want, they demand, or they say. And it has people nonplussed, and it has some people angry because it\u2019s not something we\u2019ve seen before. The politicization of everything. Because the politicization of everything leads to the corruption of everything or of many things.<\/p>\n
And so in the past there were institutions that we could always fall back on and rely on to have a backbone, to have no confusion about right or wrong. And it doesn\u2019t seem like there are any or that they are deteriorating or that they are being watered down and diluted even to the point that some religions are compromising what their lifetime beliefs have been just to avoid being protested or to avoid being infiltrated or what have you, to the extent that they\u2019re losing their own identity and the things that they stood for.<\/p>\n
So it appears all around us that there is an attack, an assault on everything that we as Republicans or conservatives value and hold dear, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be very much pushback against it all. Where it leads is just a never-ending struggle. And I think that fact is what really has people — what\u2019s the word? — not despondent or depressed, but the fact that everything is gonna be hard, everything is gonna be a fight, even holding onto some of the greatest traditions and institutions which have defined the country, it\u2019s gonna be an ongoing difficulty to hold on to them, that nothing is going to be easy.<\/p>\n
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Whereas it was perceived that certain things just defended themselves, certain traditions, institutions were rock solid and you didn\u2019t question whether they were gonna be there, religion being one. He mentioned he was a devout Catholic. I mean, the Catholic Church is under assault. It has been for years. Nothing new about that. But now we have a pope who is a left-winger who is doing things and allowing things to happen in the Catholic Church that nobody ever thought would happen, and it\u2019s gotta have people upset and wondering.<\/p>\n
People keep waiting for the bottom to be hit. Because once we hit the bottom, there\u2019s gonna be, it is theorized, a majority of Americans are gonna finally have had enough and stand up and say, that\u2019s it, screw it, and start fighting back and stop taking it anymore. But that bottom hasn\u2019t been hit because that reaction hasn\u2019t happened, to whatever cultural depravity continues.<\/p>\n
So he was 30, wondering what\u2019s gonna happen to his generation. Whether he\u2019s gonna be a minority for most of his life, he probably will be, as a young conservative Millennial, devout Catholic. In terms of the way America is portrayed in the media, the impression is always gonna be that he\u2019s a minority. He\u2019s gonna think of himself as a minority because of the way people like him are portrayed, mocked, laughed at, made fun of.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s gonna require fortitude and a stiff spine to hold on to his values and maintain them and live them, because everything is in the process of being politicized for the purposes of reforming it or transforming it or changing it. But as far as where we\u2019re headed, nobody can predict the future. And people who tell you they can without any caveats really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got to keep in mind that pessimism sells like nothing. Pessimism sells subscriptions to financial newsletters. Pessimism and the end of the world sells audience to newscasts and so forth. That\u2019s why it\u2019s always constant crisis, constant breaking news. But I don\u2019t know, folks. This is not Pollyannish. I just have faith in America\u2019s resilience and in the Constitution.<\/p>\n
I think there\u2019s always going to be a large, active, sizable population that defend it, protect it, stand up to it, and will eventually emerge victorious against all of this opposition. But if you look at election returns lately and if you look at demographic forecasts, you can\u2019t see that. You see nothing but the end of America as we\u2019ve known it. Just look at the demographic changes that are happening.<\/p>\n
The media loves to tell you, they love to tell you that they era of white majorities are over and the sooner you white people figure it out the better. That\u2019s why the Democrats have abandoned the white working people because they\u2019re not the future. The Democrats are embracing this coalition of minority groups that is assumed to be growing. More minorities, more people coming in to the country from various places and that they\u2019re all gonna be supporting big government and Democrats.<\/p>\n
But somebody, the country, in order for it to be worthwhile to these people, somebody\u2019s gonna have to continue to produce. There\u2019s gonna have to be an America worth looting, if you will. There\u2019s gonna have to be something about this country that makes it worthwhile. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever gonna be annihilated. I do believe that at some point people will have their fill. I\u2019ve been hoping this for 30 years or 25, hoping to see it. But I still think it\u2019s gonna happen at some point. Can\u2019t tell you how. Can\u2019t tell you it\u2019s gonna manifest itself, what it\u2019s gonna look like.<\/p>\n
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These last election results, I can\u2019t get it through my head that a majority of people actually voted for Democrats because they liked the mobs that they saw during the Kavanaugh confirmation, for example. But it\u2019s challenging to hold on to this point of view because if you do what I do every day and you expose yourself to the liberal order and the liberal culture, if you read what they write, read what they believe, read them talking to each other, you end up feeling hopeless. You see no chance these people are ever gonna get it, no chance they\u2019re ever going to be any part of anything other than destruction of the country as is.<\/p>\n
So I don\u2019t know. I would love to sit here and tell you be confident, everything\u2019s gonna work out, it\u2019s gonna be fine because America is America, where optimism and triumph, this is the last place on earth where greatness pursued can be achieved. But I still believe that. And I really think that what most people ought to try to do is distance yourself from as much pessimism as you can.<\/p>\n
You know, I could come here every day, I could come here every day, and this show would be nothing but pessimism and doom and gloom, and all I would have to do is read headlines! That\u2019s all I would have to do! The news every day, if all you see is headlines, I don\u2019t care where you go on the internet to look at news, if you just look at headlines, that\u2019s all you have to do and you\u2019re gonna be convinced that we\u2019re doomed, that we\u2019re done for. And I could do that every day on this program. But I don\u2019t for a reason, \u2019cause I don\u2019t believe it. I really don\u2019t believe that\u2019s the ultimate fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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