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<\/p>\nRUSH: Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelley, it\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hey!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Shelley from Charlottesville, Virginia. I\u2019m just wondering, Rush. I\u2019ve been around for, oh, about five or six decades. I\u2019ve seen a lot of politics either way, gone through a lot of presidents. I\u2019m Republican, but I\u2019ve had a lot of Democratic friends. Where do these crazy, super mental cases come from? I mean, it\u2019s like they just came out of the woodwork one day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff starts happening. When did that happen, and where did they come from?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, I\u2019m actually glad you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this reaction that you\u2019re having within three months of Obama being inaugurated. All through the Bush years, I mean, we saw radical leftists out there, the anti-war people. But it was primarily in the media. I mean, during the Bush years, we had George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was a joke running in 2004, never really seriously a contender. Our problems then were that Bush was not reacting to the media — the destruction, his attempts to sabotage his regime and the wars and all this.<\/p>\n
Then Obama gets elected, and all of a sudden it hit me the same way you just described it here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half of this country is mainstream radical left. I\u2019m saying, “Where did these people come from? Where has this been?” I had to conclude that I knew the answer, that they had been lurking out there all along. Where they came from is the American education system, primarily. There are other avenues. Pop culture. But the American education system and the Democrat Party are primarily it.<\/p>\n
And if I wanted to even get more specific, I could, because a lot of this radical leftism that you\u2019re talking about tied to Millennials is culturally as well. And I think with Obama\u2019s election, somehow it just surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction you did. For a while, I was telling myself that it can\u2019t be mainstream. There aren\u2019t enough. We can\u2019t have lost this ground. We know these people have always been there, but they\u2019ve always been considered to be a really, really small minority.<\/p>\n
Trouble-making and loud, violent, dangerous public protests, this kind of thing. But to me it did seem like the election of Obama just brought a bunch of people out from hiding, from behind the woodwork. And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many of these people were young Millennials. So that, to me, has to be the education system — and I think there are probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.<\/p>\n
I actually believe that one of the primary — one of the main issues that has led to this is the radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that shows it\u2019s not important to 10% of country. Nobody was believing it. The Millennial explosion after Obama\u2019s inauguration featured a lot of radical liberalism. But climate change, I think, was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination that was being used.<\/p>\n
Look, it goes back even to Ted Turner\u2019s Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet, a superhero trying to destroy all corporations because they\u2019re destroying the planet. And in anticipation of this subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One of them… You know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince Charles has gotta be… He\u2019s a nice guy, does a lot for charity. I understand. But the guy is a loon — and you would be, too, if you were born to be the future king and here you are 75 and your mother has no intention of getting out of the way and handing it to you.<\/p>\n
If you may die before you become king, you\u2019d have to do something to make your life meaningful too. I mean, imagine the last 50 years thinking you\u2019re gonna be king and now the last five thinking, “(Snort!) By the time I\u2019m king, I won\u2019t even know I\u2019m king. They\u2019re gonna be put me in a home.” Well, Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that thinks climate change is going to destroy us, and one year he will say, “We\u2019ve got two years.”<\/p>\n
The next year he\u2019ll say, “Hey, we\u2019ve got a reprieve! We\u2019ve got about 30 years now.”<\/p>\n
How many times in all of these recent years have we been told we got 10 years, we\u2019ve got 12 years, we\u2019ve got five years, we\u2019ve got 50 years. We don\u2019t have any time. We\u2019re beyond our ability to do anything about it. These people are all over the ballpark. Now Prince Charles, in an official speech, 18 months. The scary thing is, I can show you mass numbers of Millennials who believe it!<\/p>\n Takes me to my second story. There are actually three. This is the Boston Herald, an editorial yesterday<\/a>. \u201cCarbon emissions are soon to become the latest portal the state uses to reach the wallets of Massachusetts taxpayers. A bill is gaining momentum on Beacon Hill that would place a fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t agree with banning plastic straws, if you don\u2019t agree with banning plastic water bottles or Styrofoam, you are a climate denier. \u201cFurthermore, since climate change is purportedly the new World War II, if you are not all in you are allied with the Axis forces.\u201d You are a Nazi and a denier at the same time. The Boston heralded is editorializing against the carbon tax. And, see, I think people are tired of being bullied.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-tearaway-Climate-Depot-071719.jpg\")
<\/a>Well, now he\u2019s back. “The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders that if we don\u2019t tackle climate change in 18 months the human race will go extinct in a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from the Commonwealth. ‘I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival,\u2019 Prince Charles said.” In 2015, Prince Charles gave the world 35 years. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, “We have 12 years,” but then when people actually acted on that, she said, “Well, you know, it\u2019s a generality. It\u2019s a ballpark.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-tearaway-Boston-Herald-071719.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cExecutive Director Michael Green of Climate XChange, a non-profit,\u201d of course, \u201cwith a mission to fight climate change, countered that the study doesn\u2019t include the cost of \u2018climate inaction.\u2019 In other words, doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing and those are absolutely our only two choices. You either want a carbon tax, straw ban, water bottle ban and Styrofoam ban or you are a climate denier.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>“\u2019Climate despair\u2019 has been a phrase used at least as far back as Eric Pooley\u2019s 2010 book, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth, but it\u2019s been in wide circulation for perhaps as little as two years.<\/p>\n