{"id":329858,"date":"2019-11-27T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=329858"},"modified":"2019-12-02T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:23:54","slug":"capitalism-is-scary-it-didnt-scare-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/27\/capitalism-is-scary-it-didnt-scare-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism Is Scary? It Didn\u2019t Scare Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I saw a segment on TV during the 1 o\u2019clock break that I want to comment on here, and there happens to be a story that will allow me once again to transition to it. Here is the headline. It\u2019s a Breitbart story: \u201cPoll: 69% of Voters Prefer Free Market Capitalism to Socialism, 50% Say They Will Not Vote for a Socialist Candidate.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, this is a combination poll from the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports. One thousand likely voters, 33% Republican, 37% Democrat, 30% independent. \u201cOf the Republicans polled, 87 percent said free-market capitalism was better, and 69 percent of independents agreed. But the poll also found that 53 percent of Democrats said a free-market system was preferable to socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, that contradicts what we\u2019re seeing about polling data elsewhere. Last week and the week before I saw a couple of polls — now, they were of Millennials and younger. One poll indicated that 70% of Millennials favor socialism, 30% are intrigued by communism. And then there was the story about how a majority of kids 16 to 24 had no idea who Mao Tse-tung or Joseph Stalin were, which tells me that the truth of communism and its dictatorial, murderous thug leaders is not being taught.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But then there are polls that show that Millennials really, really do favor socialism. And I heard somebody on TV explaining why that is. They were trying to make it understandable. \u201cWell, let\u2019s take a look. What is capitalism,\u201d said this person. Who it is doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019m not mentioning the name \u2019cause I don\u2019t want you to pummel \u2019em with emails. It\u2019s not the point. It\u2019s what they said that gives me the bouncing off point here.<\/p>\n

This person said that capitalism is a very scary thing. You go to high school, then you go to college, and throughout those years you\u2019re told that it ain\u2019t gonna be long and you\u2019re on your own. You gotta make your own way. You gotta self-support. You gotta be self-reliant, and that is a very scary thing. Capitalism is a very scary thing. You\u2019re 22 years old, you\u2019re about ready to graduate college and all of a sudden you\u2019re on your own and you\u2019ve got to provide whatever you want, your rent, gotta provide, very scary.<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, somebody comes along and says, “Hey, we\u2019ll take care of all that for you. All you gotta do is vote for us. We\u2019ll take care of your rent. We\u2019ll take care of your health care. We\u2019ll give you a little garden outside your one room studio apartment that we\u2019ll provide for you.” This person said, \u201cThat\u2019s far more attractive than the scary aspects of capitalism. Capitalism can be very scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m watching this, and I asked myself, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t it scare me?\u201d I couldn\u2019t wait to get out on my own. I couldn\u2019t wait to start providing for myself because it represented freedom. And it was opportunity. And not to mention that\u2019s just the way it was. It\u2019s just the way it was. You didn\u2019t grow up expecting to be taken care of. I\u2019m a Baby Boomer, that generation.<\/p>\n

Now, I guess part of my generation did because every generation has socialists and babies and scared people in it. But it was the way it was. At some point you were expected to grow up and that\u2019s how you were raised. You were raised to grow up, to mature and to learn how to provide and take care of yourself, because someday you were gonna have your own family, and you had to do that for your family.<\/p>\n

Now, I know feminism came along and kind of got in the way of all that. But still, there might have been some fear. Yeah, it\u2019s a big step going out on your own. But it never resulted in a debate, “Oh, my God. You know what? I think socialism would be better.” No. So what is it today, why is it justified to think that capitalism is scary?<\/p>\n