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RUSH: This is Jane in Dallas. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, Jane.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I was driving home from lunch with my husband. He said to me, ‘Jane, what do the Democrats want? They own the car industry. They don\u2019t want us to go to college. What do they want? At the end of this, what do they want? They\u2019re going to have all the power, and what do they want?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: What inspired this? Is it because even though they\u2019ve got all this they don\u2019t seem happy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They don\u2019t seem happy. When is enough going to be enough?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ve addressed this on several occasions. This is why the Republicans can never win by crossing the aisle and meeting them halfway, because no matter what you give them, it\u2019s never enough.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. When they have all our money, they\u2019re going to live in a different country they\u2019re going to move outta here. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, what they want is power. Now, I know this sounds easy to say. Have you ever…? I\u2019m not trying to pry, but the answer to this question is… is… (sigh) I think it\u2019s almost required to understand their quest for power. Have you ever had a genuine addiction to anything?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t… Um, not really. (nervous laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I have. I have. I have, and let me tell you about it. It makes you entirely unreasonable and irrational. It is all you care about. Nothing else matters. No matter how important to you otherwise, it doesn\u2019t matter as much as the addiction. Feeding it, the fear of not being able to, is what animates your existence every day. These people are addicted to power, because they think it is their birthright. And I\u2019m not just talking about the people in Washington, elected officials. I\u2019m talking about some of — not all, but some of — the rank-and-file, madcap, insane liberals that you will find blogging, that you will find e-mailing, that you will find on the protest march. Their lives are basically meaningless. The addiction to power and dominance and control is what drives them. And the thing about an addiction is, it can never be satisfied. <\/p>\n

There is never a day where you say, ‘All right. Ahhhh,\u2019 because you have to feed it every day. Anything that stands in the way of the addiction requires your attention to overcome, to get around, to somehow take care of. So you say, ‘They have the car companies now, and they\u2019ve got the House, and they\u2019ve got the White House, and they\u2019ve got the Senate, and they\u2019ve got most of the statehouses — and in California they\u2019ve got a Republican who is a liberal. They\u2019re getting gay marriage. They\u2019re getting it all and they\u2019re no happier!\u2019 They don\u2019t seem like they are satisfied with any of the progress. They have debauched our culture. They have made perversion standard operating procedure, and they\u2019re not happy! They\u2019re miserable. They still want George Bush in jail. They want Karl Rove and Dick Cheney being frog-marched in handcuffs and shackles off to the hoosegow — and if they got that, it wouldn\u2019t make them happy because then they would want it to happen to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But after they destroy our country, where\u2019s their power?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do addicts do? They destroy themselves. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (nervous laughter) I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They do. They destroy themselves, and they destroy the things that are most important to them. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you see the Lord of the Rings movies?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I did not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a shame. ‘Cause I can give you a pretty good analogy. I don\u2019t remember who. It was the character we never saw that was desperate to get the rings back, Zauron, Sauron, whatever his name was. No matter. He had an army, and they would do anything to get those rings back. We never saw the guy. He had power, fear, and everybody was scared to death. The guy was miserable. He couldn\u2019t get the rings back. He had everything in the world but couldn\u2019t get the rings back, and everybody who put the ring on became addicted to it, and it ruined their lives, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they\u2019re doing a good job., I\u2019ll tell you that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So we\u2019re trying to understand irrational people as we come at it from rationality. You and I will say, ‘They\u2019ve got more than they asked for. They\u2019ve got more than most people could dream of, and they\u2019re still not happy.\u2019 Look at Hollywood people. Look at the successful Hollywood people. They have wealth and fame, the things that most people that don\u2019t have it think they would love to have. And you watch them run around and they look miserable, and they\u2019re angry when they do public appearances, and they get mad at the press. They get mad at the paparazzi. They throw all kinds of tantrums and so forth, and they go huddle up with people like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. What they\u2019re envious of is the power, the total power that Castro has. It\u2019s not that they think Castro is a great. He\u2019s got total power! He rules with an iron fist, and the same thing with Chavez. There are more explanations to it than this. This is not just the sole explanation, but this is why, since they can\u2019t be happy, they will never peacefully co-exist with their opposition. They have to be defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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