{"id":292666,"date":"2018-11-21T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=292666"},"modified":"2018-11-26T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:47:25","slug":"why-i-remain-bullish-on-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/21\/why-i-remain-bullish-on-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Remain Bullish on America — Despite the Unrelenting Negativism of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s Thanksgiving, and I remain ebullient and optimistic and very bullish on our country and our future. I really do, and I want to spend some time talking about that today. That\u2019s not to be blind; don\u2019t misunderstand. But I am struck by a couple of things I\u2019ve encountered the past two days, and it\u2019s really nothing new. It\u2019s out there every day. I see it every day. But, for some reason, I want to spend some time on this today. As a setup, I want to remind you of the call we had last week from the 13-year-old girl that was in Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Her name was Delia and she wanted to know from me if I thought… This was a school project. It was last Thursday, and she had a project for the next day, which would be last Friday. She wanted know if I thought that it should be difficult to become a citizen via legal immigration. I told her I thought it should be because it\u2019s worth it and that everything worthwhile is hard, takes application, takes focus. In the process of answering her, I spelled out why I think it\u2019s worth it (i.e., why America is singularly the greatest nation ever in the history of humanity and why it should be preserved).<\/p>\n

Many of you… I\u2019ve never gotten more feedback. Well, it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve had as much feedback to anything that happened here as I had on that call. So, if you heard that and you remember the elements that I explained to her about the greatness of the country, that\u2019s the foundation here. Despite the ups and downs that we experience and feel on a day-to-day basis, the United States of America remains the United States of America. It\u2019s very risky. We are precariously balanced.<\/p>\n

We are under assault from within by the American left and the Democrat Party. But we persevere, because there are still more of us who treasure the United States of America as founded, there are more of us than there are of those who wish to undermine it. But their numbers are growing. We know it. I\u2019m not sitting here denying it. I\u2019m not getting all Pollyannaish on you. But I want to focus on, “Why are so many people so down on America?” How it has happened, what the shame of it is, why it\u2019s so totally unnecessary, and why it\u2019s destructive.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A. As you know, I have a hobby, and that is technology and staying up to speed on it. It\u2019s one of the ways that I use to escape all of this so that my mind doesn\u2019t fry with constant exposure to these things like these two things I mentioned today that literally tick me off. I mean, I\u2019m not like the left. I don\u2019t want to go through every day, all day, enraged, angry, outraged, loaded for bear. So I have outlets that de-stress. Golf is one. Staying up to speed on tech and gizmos and gadgets, learning how to use them, getting the most out of them.<\/p>\n

These are sybaritic pursuits of mine. In the process, I have to read a lot. So I have access to an omnivorous selection of blogs and websites, and these are all populated by 30-ish-year-old Millennial types, male and female. It turns out they represent a case study on what education has done to our country, what your kids entering the education system are facing, and at the same time illustrates the task we have, \u2019cause these people\u2019s minds have literally been corrupted and poisoned. They have been indoctrinated. They\u2019ve been perverted. They have been propagandized.<\/p>\n

I never want to mention the name of a specific blog or writer because they\u2019re all the same. They\u2019re all identical. I mean, they don\u2019t differ. This is another… Whatever blog and website you go to, if they\u2019re talking about Apple, they all think the same thing, with rare exceptions. If they\u2019re talking about climate change, they all think the same thing. So it doesn\u2019t matter the name, and I\u2019m not… I don\u2019t want to focus attention on any one person to have them react to it and have a phony feud created. I want to focus on the actual substance or content.<\/p>\n

If you go look it up and find it, which will not be hard, feel free. Have at it. But my point here is not to do what is popular here in media, create these phony personal feuds which seem to be a staple of so much programming. But here\u2019s the headline: “The Worst Year to Be a Human on Earth Surprisingly Isn\u2019t 2018.”<\/a> (interruption) Now, see, everybody on the other side of the glass is laughing. I used to laugh, but you read this stuff every day and you find out they really think this.<\/p>\n

These are 30-, 32-, 35-year-old people that really think this. How must it govern the rest of their lives? How must it govern the way they vote, what they think of other people, how literally brain-dead they are, and what they\u2019re missing? Can you believe the thing that really troubles me about this is that it is one of the greatest privileges — it is one of the greatest opportunities as a human being — to be an American. To be alive today, and especially in the United States of America, is to live like no other human beings before us even had the chance to live.<\/p>\n

Despite the political disagreements and the angst, the human life expectancy has never been better. The standard of living — not just in America, but around the world — has never been higher. One aggregate on average… You can always find pockets of despair and poverty that disprove it. But on balance — and if you want to just talk about the United States, it\u2019s not even close — life is better today than it was yesterday, than last year, than last month, than last decade.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the fight is: To keep that fact alive, to keep that going. Everybody wants their kids to have a better life than they had, and America has been the place for that to be possible. And it still is, and it\u2019s still happening. Medical discoveries. Yeah, we got expensive prescription drugs. You can always find something to be mad at. You can always find something to be angry at. Always find something to be depressed about.<\/p>\n

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But if you step back, there is no way anybody alive today who thinks about it would trade life today for life before the automobile, for life before electricity, for life before airplane flight, before life before space exploration. There is no way anybody would trade it. Some way they would, but they didn\u2019t actually live it. You want to go back to the Old West where the streets were dirt, filled with horse manure? Talk about sanitation? There simply is no way to compare and think that today things are worse than ever.<\/p>\n

But how many young people have been taught it and thus believe it and live it, and they themselves are depressed, they themselves are despondent? Young people today believe that because of a nonexistent scientific hoax — man-made climate change — that this planet may not be habitable by the time they\u2019re 65. In many cases, that\u2019s 30 years. I mentioned the story the other day that Bill Nye — who is not a scientist.<\/a> He wears a white lab coat and appears on PBS, but he\u2019s not a scientist, Bill Nye is not a scientist.<\/p>\n

He came out the other day and he said to people (paraphrased), “Let\u2019s get serious. We can\u2019t colonize Mars. There\u2019s no food there, it\u2019s too cold, and there\u2019s no air. There\u2019s nothing to breathe.” You would not believe the rage and anger at this guy on the tech blogs, because prior to this he was a hero. I mean, these people literally think that their only hope is colonizing Mars or an asteroid. Their lives are being wasted.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re never gonna reach the potential that they could simply because they have been implanted with attitudes and lies and miseducation, maleducation, ill-education that makes it impossible for them to factually face reality and even be optimistic about things. “The Worst Year to Be a Human on Earth Surprisingly Isn\u2019t 2018.” Why would somebody think…? That\u2019s just the headline. Wait \u2019til you hear some of the details of the story. Why would somebody think that 2018 would be the worst year to be a human on earth when, by any measure you want to make, it\u2019s the best?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Young people today have been so… I don\u2019t know. What\u2019s the word? Abused. They have been so dis-serviced by media and by their education. The one human life that they all get has been shrouded in angst and fear and pessimism over politics, left-wing, liberal hoaxes. Try this headline, if you don\u2019t believe me. You\u2019ve all heard of the science magazine called Nature. Well, you may not have heard of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We quote from it here frequently. It\u2019s been around for a long time. They just ran an article and the headline of the article: “Assigning Gender by the Genitals One is Born with ‘Has no Foundation in Science.'”<\/a> In other words, you\u2019re born and the doctors look at you and they see your genitalia and pronounce you a male or female. That now has no basis in science, according to a magazine called Nature.<\/p>\n

That is accredited and has all kinds of peer-reviewed gobbledygook BS in it. Nature finds “Assigning Gender by the Genitals One is Born with ‘Has no Foundation in Science.'” All of this to make transgenders feel normal and welcome, and this is a microcosm of what\u2019s happening to all of America: Destroying institutions, traditions, scientific fact, all to make some people who have some mental problems feel not so bad.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And remember, we had the piece yesterday that Eastern Michigan University has decided to cancel all production and all performances of the Vagina Monologues<\/a>. You know why, Brian? (interruption) Because not all women have vaginas anymore. Who knew? So now Nature says, “Hey, just the genitalia your born with? That\u2019s never been the way we determine gender! That\u2019s never been the way.” Back to the story here: “The Worst Year to Be a Human on Earth Surprisingly Isn\u2019t 2018.” Here\u2019s the opening paragraph:<\/p>\n

“If you take a look at recent events you might imagine that scientists searching for the worst year of human existence would have a hard time topping 2018. I mean, there are mass shootings every other day (and sometimes every day), wildfires destroying huge areas, hurricanes wiping communities off the map, and a planet that is slowly dying because we can\u2019t stop messing stuff up.” The planet\u2019s not dying. We can\u2019t kill it. The earth is being used in greater ways than ever before for the advancement of the human condition.<\/p>\n

The standard of living, however you measure it — in economics, in prosperity, whatever — today has never, ever been better, and particularly in the United States of America. Now, this is important to me, because we\u2019re here on Thanksgiving, and we have focused efforts to destroy even that that are commonplace each and every day. One of the reasons why so many people are so negative and obsessed with this stuff is media — and education is, of course, another factor. I just hate seeing people throw their lives away.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I hate… You know, we all only get one life, and I know that we\u2019re free to do with it whatever we want, and if these young people want to buy into all of this nonsense and run around not even get close to reaching their full potential? Fine. We have the freedom to do that. I just hate seeing it. I hate seeing such blatant ignorance actually (chuckling) surviving in the guise of superior education. Here\u2019s the last paragraph: “Humans as a whole did, of course, make it.”<\/p>\n

The worst year, by the way, in this story — the worst year — was 536 A.D., with bubonic plague and all that, according to science. Scientists have determined 536 A.D. was the worst year ever. Tell that to somebody who lived under the boots of the Roman Empire. Okay. But 536 A.D. was the magical worst year ever to be a human being. So the final paragraph: “Humans as a whole did, of course, make it. We survived incredible hardships and that\u2019s why we\u2019re still here today. The Earth, on the other hand, may have preferred that we didn\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

So the earth really doesn\u2019t like us being here. Nature would be much better off, every other living organism would be much better off if we weren\u2019t here. It\u2019s not an insignificant thing, folks. All of this is an illustration of how effective the left has been in corrupting, I mean, literally polluting and corruption young minds. And then Fredo Cuomo had a show on Thanksgiving that he did. I think this was last night, and he says, “Celebrating Thanksgiving at a time of illness, depredation, like the Pilgrims.”<\/p>\n

All wrapped up into one quote from Fredo Cuomo. You know, liberals — and this is a problem. They\u2019re never happy, they\u2019re never optimistic, they\u2019re never even content. Thanksgiving and the history of Thanksgiving is routinely distorted, made filthy and dirty. Fredo\u2019s history, Fredo Cuomo\u2019s history is so perverted<\/a> he actually thinks it\u2019s okay to compare Trump to the horrors of the Civil War where 700,000 Americans killed each other.<\/p>\n