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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is James in Louisville, Kentucky. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is an honor to speak to Maha Rushie, the great and only one. You know, I\u2019m clergy, and I am a former bleeding-heart liberal. Five years ago… I used to be very liberal, very liberal, and five years ago I started listening to your show, and here\u2019s what I teach people all the time. What you taught me is liberalism, the old saying, “You give a man a fish, he eats only for a day.” But conservatism teaches you, “Teach a man how to fish, and he eats for a lifetime,” and that really is a big difference between liberalism and conservatism.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s very basically true. Exactly right. So you were…? You\u2019re a former liberal, you found the program five years ago, and that\u2019s what resonated with you, huh?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. It\u2019s just your education because, you know, when I watched the news and I listened to the news, man, it is so biased. It is so extremely biased. You can watch CNN at 8 o\u2019clock, “Breaking News!” and they\u2019ll still talk about this nonsense about the Ukraine. And then at 12 o\u2019clock, they\u2019re still talking about it. It\u2019s like, is anything else going on in the world? Another person who really changed my perspective was George W. Bush.<\/p>\n
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I really, honest to God — I don\u2019t care what anyone says — think he was truly one of the best presidents America has ever had, and I think history will get it. And it\u2019s because of you. Because there are extreme conservatives who have gone a little bit too far. But your logic is clear, it\u2019s precise, and you don\u2019t present yourself as being higher than anyone else. You just teach people that conservatism is all about doing it on your own, not expecting a free handout every time around, and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I\u2019m glad that you pick up on that. I\u2019m glad that you pick up that all I\u2019m doing is throwing it out for people to consider and adopt themselves, that there\u2019s no arrogance here and there\u2019s no condescension, that I don\u2019t look down on anybody. You don\u2019t know how right you are on that. I do everything I do here with the first thought in my mind that this audience is smart enough, bright enough, engaged enough to know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n
I do not think that you or anybody else listening to this program is beneath me in any way. And you\u2019re exactly right. You watch Drive-By Media, left-wing media, and they are talking down to everybody. They\u2019re not even talking to you. They\u2019re talking to each other. They\u2019re trying to impress each other. They\u2019re not even making a connection with you, the viewer. So you\u2019re left to look at them and you say, “My God, can you people not talk about anything else?” because they are not reaching out to you. They\u2019re not connecting with you. It\u2019s that simple. Am I right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, a million percent. I mean, literally, I was — I really, truly was — hook-line-and-sinker liberalism. I mean, to the extreme. And then when I began to listen to you, I sort of said, “My God, man, this guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.” But then I started listening, and I started thinking, and the points that you make are not points of arrogance or hatefulness or judgmental. It\u2019s logic, and it\u2019s just basic human decency and logic.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, I\u2019m glad that you picked up on that well. Logic, to me, is something common sense. (sigh) I\u2019m amazed at how rare it is. I think logic is the simplest thing in the world! (chuckles) But for a lot of people it\u2019s a mystery. But there\u2019s a contradiction here. Logic, by the way, is the root to being good in math — and I am horrible at math, advanced math. You get into trig, advanced algebra… I could do up to algebra. Beyond that, I was challenged. But it\u2019s just logic.<\/p>\n
Economics is just logic — if you have somebody who understands it, who can present it to you in an understandable, simple way. So many specialists at what they do, James, purposely complicate what they do to make sure people can\u2019t understand it to the point of becoming competitors or entrants into the field. So economists have their own lingo that they use to talk about things like “basis points” and other terminology than the parts of everyday economics language.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s designed to make you feel left out.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s exact opposite of what I want to do.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want anybody to feel left out of anything here. I want everybody to feel like they\u2019re in on everything that I\u2019m talking about — like it\u2019s not hard to understand — and if it is complex, that I can take the complexity out of it, and I can drill down to the essence. It worked with you, because the example you cited about teaching somebody to fish and they can eat for the rest of their lives — rather than sit around and wait for handouts and be scared about going hungry every day — is a great example of that.<\/p>\n
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So I appreciate the call. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re part of the audience, and I know we\u2019ve got you. Once you\u2019re here, you\u2019re not gonna go anywhere. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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