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RUSH: I was perusing various websites, conservative websites. (I\u2019m not going to mention the names; it doesn\u2019t matter; they\u2019re a dime a dozen now.) But I ran across some guy in a little post on his blog say, ‘You know, conservatives have got to change with the times. This is not Reagan anymore. They can\u2019t keep talking about Reagan. We\u2019ve gotta modernize. We\u2019ve gotta adapt.\u2019 You know, the problem with this is… Let me make it as simple as possible. It has nothing to do with Reagan. It has nothing to do with cult-like devotion to Ronald Reagan. It has to do with the fact that personal freedom will never go out of style and personal freedom is at the root of conservatism; personal freedom and liberty and holding on to it and maintaining it. And that\u2019s what conservative is, and that\u2019s never going to go out of style, and I don\u2019t know that we have to adapt that to anything other than what needs to be adapted and changed and stopped is the ongoing movement found in way too many parts of this country that would infringe upon individual liberty and freedom and yet we\u2019re told, ‘Come on! You gotta adapt, you gotta modernize. You gotta understand where we\u2019re headed here. We got a new set of problems and so forth.\u2019 That\u2019s just it. There isn\u2019t a problem in the world that doesn\u2019t have as its best start in solving it freedom, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Northbrook, Illinois. Darren, hi. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: O\u2019 captain, my captain. Rush, what an honor it is to talk to you again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re doing a great job. Don\u2019t let the turkeys get you down. I know there\u2019s a lot of people asking you to do more, and I just gotta say: Since Buckley\u2019s death, you\u2019re the greatest philosopher and pamphleteer we conservatives have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate it. The pioneers take the arrows. I can handle it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Indeed. Indeed. Rush, it\u2019s a truth today that if conservatives are going to beat back the socialist looters, we need to get back to basics. And, you know, there\u2019s a three-step process for building a conservative political movement — any political movement — and it starts with the philosophers. And conservatives are lucky because we already have had our philosophers. Some 50 years ago we had guys like Russell Kirk and Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, Fred Meyer, and Irving Kristol, who gave us these timeless, permanent principles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget Edmund Burke.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I edited him out due to time, as a matter of fact. (laughs) Edmund Burke is obviously a great conservative philosopher that we need to pamphletize his philosophy today. The philosophers are saying something that are making a lot of sense, then the pamphleteers grab that and they distill down those ideas for mass consumption. And once those pamphleteers create this greater seabed for a political movement, then the politicians follow. And what\u2019s happening today is the politicians have gotten away from those permanent principles, those principles ratified by the entire human experience. You know, conservatism doesn\u2019t go out of style because human nature is not going to change. And, like I say, our politicians today aren\u2019t articulating the conservative principles. Nobody is making a principled case against socialized health care, for example.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you are singing my tune, which basically is: We have defeatists who do nothing but accept every premise offered by the left. I have been part of a discussion before the program today — well, I have been a witness to a discussion, one of these chat things, in a chat room on a blog — amongst conservative intellectuals on global warming (conservative intellectual pamphleteers as you would call \u2019em) and they\u2019re all saying, ‘Well, of course it\u2019s happening, manmade global warming. What we have to do is accept the premise and then go in there and tweak it and make sure that what they fix is doesn\u2019t cost a lot of money and ruin the economy.\u2019 So this is what\u2019s happening in way too many instances. We accept the premise because it\u2019s easier to do that than to fight the premise. It\u2019s precisely what American conservatives want from their leaders, though, is to fight the premise of all this; to fight the premise of socialized health care; to tell people how it\u2019s going to cost them more money and reduce the quality of their care, and the availability of it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s so frustrating because it\u2019s happening all across the world, where they\u2019re trying it. Canada, the UK. There is a great column in the op-ed section of the New York Post today about the kind of care Ted Kennedy got for his brain tumor and the surgery to remove it, versus somebody who has the same circumstance in the UK. Yet the same people who are benefiting from the greatest health care system in the world are those who want to destroy it in order to put themselves and the government in charge of it — and it\u2019s a pure myth. It is a myth that they want to do this because they feel sorry for poor people. It\u2019s because they want power. Liberalism is oriented around a series of false promises and fallacious premises. And one of the primary things that drives it is this whole notion — and we have talked about this before, and it\u2019s the root of class envy — is the equality of outcomes. It isn\u2019t fair that some people should have more money than others, bigger houses, nicer cars, better neighborhoods, better schools. It isn\u2019t fair. And America will not be a just nation until all these inequities have been rectified to where everybody is the same. Well, the only way everybody can be the same is if a tyrannical despot dictator takes over the group and forces misery on them all, because no two Americans are the same. Aside from physically, look at the psychological. Look at the differences in ambition, desire, abilities. And you\u2019re absolutely right: Conservatism is nothing more than natural law, and at the root of it is freedom. And they tell us conservatism needs to reform and adapt to the times? Nope. Because personal liberty and freedom is for all time, and it\u2019s the foundational building block of what we believe in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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