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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let me ask a question. Just to ponder a thought. What\u2019s normal? How do we define normal? I mean, you might go to the dictionary and you might look up the word and find a definition for it. But how do you define it? What is normal? And how did normal come to be?<\/p>\n
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To me, this is a question at the root of our cultural and societal desecration, degradation, corruption, what have you. For example, is it normal what we in say 1960, 1980, any time in the past or today \u2014 well, not today. That\u2019s the point. Is normal the result of centuries of human behavior, societal evolution, in free societies? Is what\u2019s normal defined by how a majority of human beings have chosen to organize themselves for the best and betterment of all?<\/p>\n
For example, who decided that marriage was between a man and woman? Well, the Bible of course, religion, descends from there, and marriages, many of them take place in the eyes of God. But aside from that, it wasn\u2019t just because it was decreed. It worked. Years and years, decades, centuries and centuries marriage was a specific thing.<\/p>\n
Was that because people were discriminating? Was it because people were bigoted? Was it because people were mean? Was it because people were exclusionary? Was it because people wanted to humiliate and embarrass others? I contend it\u2019s none of that. It\u2019s just the best way for men and women to live together who especially are going to have kids \u2014 you know, the old nuclear family thing.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019m not trying to erase the biblical and religious foundation of this thing, of this stuff. But you have to understand there are a lot of people that believe in marriage that are not Christian, they don\u2019t have a Judeo-Christian view of things, so I\u2019m trying to expand it just beyond that. My point is that whatever we have decided or defined as normal has not been because some powerful government decreed that it was or some legislative body or court decreed that it was, but rather human behavior determined what\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n
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And I don\u2019t mean to focus on marriage, but marriage is one of the things now where it\u2019s no longer what it used to be. It\u2019s been blown to smithereens in some people\u2019s view. In other people\u2019s view it\u2019s been expanded, and it\u2019s now not exclusionary, and it\u2019s not discriminatory. But were these previous things discriminatory?<\/p>\n
Was the idea that marriage is between one man and one woman, was that designed to discriminate against people who didn\u2019t know whether they were men or women? Or discriminate against people who love people of the same sex? No! Discrimination nothing to do with it. It had to do with that which seemed to make the most sense to everybody because of a time and true, time-honored, tested way of living.<\/p>\n
Now, all of those things that used to be considered normal really bothered a lot of people who didn\u2019t think they fit in with it. And so thought it was exclusionary. They thought it was discriminatory. They thought the normal were a bunch of superiorists and intolerant people who didn\u2019t want to let them be normal, and they didn\u2019t like thinking they were abnormal, so they began a quest to have the way they lived and wanted to live to also be declared normal, and this led to an eruption.<\/p>\n
Now, nobody put it in these terms. Nobody dared talk about normal and abnormal because that itself implied discrimination, superiority, and so forth. But I\u2019ll tell you that everybody thought about it in those terms. And it\u2019s not just in marriage. It\u2019s in any number of societal arrangements that normal, what was normal for God knows how long has been blown to smithereens now. And now we don\u2019t know what\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n
You have to navigate all this on defense every day of your life. You\u2019ve gotta navigate all of these new social structures that have now been infused with angry political motivations and objectives. It\u2019s led the people who have always defined normal a certain way afraid to even say so and in many quays afraid to even live so. And now the things that were always considered abnormal are now celebrated, and the acceptance of the abnormal is now said to be enlightened.<\/p>\n
And so I think there are people\u2019s heads spinning all over this country who are trying to fit in, try not to be discriminatory, but they still think that a lot of what\u2019s going on is destructive not based on politics and not based on ideology; based on all of those centuries of human living that ended up devising, evolving mechanisms, institutions whereby people lived and arranged themselves in ways to promote the betterment for everybody.<\/p>\n
But obviously there were those left out in those arrangements. And they have now decided \u201cto hell with that.\u201d They have now said that those previous arrangements, these institutions which I believe evolved for better purposes with better instincts, with no discrimination or intimidation intended whatsoever \u2014 people getting married decades ago were not doing it smiling that other people couldn\u2019t. It didn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s just that\u2019s the next phase of your life. You met somebody, you fall in love, you get married, you have kids. A lot of people did it because it was rote. It was the next thing to do. It was a pattern.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t done to exclude. It wasn\u2019t done with discrimination in mind. It wasn\u2019t done with mean-spiritedness. But now with the explosion of what used to be normal to accommodate all those things in the past that weren\u2019t, now everybody\u2019s being accused of discriminating or being bigoted in their adherence to these previous institutions. And this has led to a culture war. I\u2019m really giving just the basics here. It\u2019s led to a culture war that we have been waging for 25 or 30 years or maybe longer, and it shows no signs of abating or getting worse. And it\u2019s being exacerbated by many factors.<\/p>\n
And as these rapid, massive changes occur, there are some who aren\u2019t able to adapt, who aren\u2019t able to peacefully coexist with it. They end up feeling isolated, they end up feeling rejected, just their heads are spinning. Now, all around them because of social media, they think everybody else is just having a ball, is just having a blast. Hell, people think that anyway without social media.<\/p>\n
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You add social media to it where a lot of people go on these social sites and lie about what a great time they\u2019re having every day and every night, and it adds up to this one thing I think all these shooters have in common: that\u2019s rejection. Invisibility. They don\u2019t like it. They don\u2019t like being rejected. They don\u2019t like the perception of being rejected, and they certainly don\u2019t like being invisible. But everybody gets rejected. It\u2019s a way of life. Everyone\u2019s rejected, rejected countless times a week. You\u2019re rejected applying for a job.<\/p>\n
Remember Woody Allen\u2019s great quote: The only difference in the old days and the days when he had a lot of money was being rejected by a higher class of woman. Everybody gets rejected by somebody, someday, everywhere. Some people develop coping mechanisms, it becomes part of life, you deal with it, you mature, and you move on. Others haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Then in all of this, let\u2019s bring in the political opportunists who \u2014 rather than try to really understand this \u2014 just want to come in here and blame every political opponent that they would like to wipe out, and see incidents like this as a mechanism that would allow them to do so. And so nothing ever, ever gets done. We talk all around the surface, the edges of this thing, like gun control, gun show loophole, all this meaningful, irrelevant stuff. Now, social media. What about social media\u2019s influence in all of this?<\/p>\n
Well, we are told by the people \u2014 the political opportunists \u2014 here that it is the words of Donald Trump (or in 1995, my words) or the words of some Republican or conservative that is inspiring these people to go get guns. \u201cSo we need to have control on these words! We need to be able to shut down Donald Trump. We need to be able to shut down Donald Trump\u2019s rallies. We need to shut down Fox News. We need to shut down talk radio,\u201d blah, blah. It goes on. But aren\u2019t the very same people advocating for the censorship of those who say things they don\u2019t like, using the same techniques they decry?<\/p>\n
Are these people not lying through their teeth? You tell me that all of these years of the leftists in this country telling anybody who will listen that there isn\u2019t gonna be a habitable planet in 20 years, 10 years, 15\u2026? You think that doesn\u2019t affect people? You think that doesn\u2019t scare the hell out of young people, that the planet\u2019s gonna be destroyed, the climate is gonna be destroyed? These people have been at this for 30 years. They have been trying to scare people into voting Democrat for I don\u2019t know how long, and it got to such extremes that now these people really do believe that there will not be a habitable planet in, whatever, 12 years, 20, 25, 50, you name it.<\/p>\n
I maintain that to somebody who\u2019s really unmoored and not attached and not secure, that can scare the ever-living hell out of them \u2014 and I know people who are deathly afraid! They are young people, and they\u2019re running around scared. They\u2019ve bought into this and they\u2019re scared to death. Now, what\u2019s the difference? Why are they leftists allowed to openly scare the bejeezus out of people with one lie after another? Why is that not considered as incendiary? Why is it not considered that that could be responsible?<\/p>\n
If we\u2019re gonna talk about the words and the phrases and the things that people hear that could be motivating them to go out and mass kill, what about things like that? Why does the left get total immunity on this? This is why I keep emphasizing what we conservatives believe. We love everybody. We want the best for everybody. We believe in the beauty of human potential in a free society like the United States of America, and the only thing we\u2019re trying to frighten people of is liberalism, which is something that can be voted out.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not trying to scare people to the point that if they don\u2019t do what we want them to do, they\u2019re going to die. That\u2019s the special province of the left. Take a look at all the things the left says are gonna kill people. Every corporation. Right now, the pharmaceuticals and the health department or the health agency company. Oh! Big Oil. Oh, yes! We gotta shut down coal. Coal is gonna kill the planet. I\u2019m telling you, folks, this stuff has to have an impact on the already very fragilely balanced \u2014 and in the case of the Dayton shooter, it looks like it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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