{"id":345485,"date":"2020-04-21T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=345485"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:18:15","slug":"america-must-reclaim-normal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/21\/america-must-reclaim-normal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"America Must Reclaim the Life We Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: At any rate, it wasn\u2019t too long ago on this program that I posited that I believe we certainly can go back to normal<\/a>. We can go back to the way it was before this all hit. We can go back to the way it was last December. Why not? We can go back to the way it was in January. What is this notion that it\u2019ll never be the same? (interruption) Why?<\/p>\n

Who wouldn\u2019t want it to be? I mean, granted you always want things to be improving, getting better. But the people who are advocating, “Oh, it\u2019ll never go back to normal,” are people that don\u2019t want it to be as good as it was in this country. That\u2019s what you have to understand. They\u2019re given cover by being either “health experts” or some other kind of “experts.”<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re telling us (sniveling), “Because of the prevalence now of viruses and diseases, we\u2019re never going to be as free as we were. We\u2019re always going to have to be taking steps to protect the innocent and the citizens and so forth,” and I\u2019m just telling you that whenever I hear… This is no different than the Obama administration telling us that America\u2019s best days are behind us and that there was a new norm now, when they took over.<\/p>\n

And that was essentially America in decline, that it took a certain level of expertise to manage this decline, and that\u2019s what the Obama administration was. If you don\u2019t believe me, please do, because it was one of the many things I opposed. They were constantly talking about how America\u2019s best days might be behind us.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, that some of those best days that were behind us might not have been legitimate. “You know, America has stolen a lot of what we have and we\u2019ve harmed a lot of people on our way to becoming a superpower.” You say, “Well, why would anybody want America to be in decline?” Well, if you have an agenda that requires that.<\/p>\n

“Well, what kind of agenda would that be, Rush?” See, you gotta stop thinking like I used to think — and this is a big mistake. I used to think that every American loved America, that every America wanted the best for America. I used to believe that patriotism was in the DNA. It isn\u2019t. You\u2019ve got a lot of people that don\u2019t like this country who were born here.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got a lot of people who ideologically are communists and socialists. We have a lot of people that hate capitalism. But I didn\u2019t grow up surrounded by any of them. I grew up in a little town, 25,000 people, where everybody loved the country. Everybody wanted the best and better for their kids and their grandkids. It was all new to me to encounter people that were different like that, and I was really naive.<\/p>\n

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It took me a long time — I mean, probably into my thirties — to intellectually understand it. So by the time Obama came along and was talking about (impression), “Those jobs? They\u2019re not coming back. There no way. America has lost manufacturing jobs, and they\u2019re not come back. I don\u2019t know what Trump\u2019s gonna do. What? Wave a magic wand? How\u2019s he gonna make it happen? It ain\u2019t gonna happen.”<\/p>\n

Obama was proven wrong. The jobs came back. The economy (chuckles) became what the Obama people told us it never could become again. We had a roaring economy three years ago into the Trump administration that in a period of six weeks, we finally… We did it to ourselves. We shut it down. We locked it down. It took us only six weeks to take us back to the economic high point of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ve gone way, way below that. Now we\u2019ve got 22 million people out of work, and still there are people saying, “That\u2019s not enough. We need to keep it locked down. We need to keep it shut down!” The thing you\u2019ve gotta understand is that there are people — and many of them are prominent politically in the Democrat Party — who see this as an opportunity.<\/p>\n

And if you believe that America must be in decline for some other agenda to happen, then what would that agenda be? Well, it clearly is not a pro-America agenda, whatever agenda it is. It happens to be globalism. But it doesn\u2019t matter what it is. All you need to know is that it\u2019s not a pro-America agenda. Now we have people suggesting that, “Oh, we can never go back to the way it was.”<\/p>\n

They say it happily, and they tell you, “Yep. Yep. Can\u2019t go back to the way it was. Never can go back to the way it was.” Why not? We always have, in circumstances like this. Not even the Civil War ultimately destroyed civil liberties, basic human rights and freedoms enshrined in our Constitution. Not even the Civil War did. Why would this? Why would a virus?<\/p>\n

So I came across a story here in the Federalist by David Marcus that happens to be right up my alley today. “Our Goal Must Be a Total Return to Normal<\/a> — Americans must reject a dehumanizing ‘new normal\u2019 in the wake of the Chinese Virus.” Let me give you some pull quotes from the piece rather than read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

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“President Trump made some waves last week when he rejected the idea that the United States would enter some kind of ‘new normal\u2019 once the [ChiCom] virus has run its course. Asked about the possibility that in this cowardly new world, would social distancing would remain, Trump had this to say: ‘Oh, that\u2019s not going to be normal.'”<\/p>\n

Social distancing is not gonna be normal. “There\u2019s not going to be a new normal where somebody has been having for 25 years 158 seats in a restaurant and now he\u2019s got 30 or he\u2019s got 60 because that wouldn\u2019t work. That\u2019s not normal.'” A 200-seat restaurant, 158-seat restaurant cannot survive on 60. We\u2019re not going to that. “‘No, normal will be if he has the 158 or 68 seats, and that\u2019s going to happen and it\u2019s going to happen relatively quickly, we hope.'” We\u2019re gonna get back to normal relatively quickly.<\/p>\n

“He went on to [say] that if Alabama football games had 100,000 fans in attendance before, they will have 100,000 fans in attendance again. It\u2019s the right tone and the right policy.” That shouldn\u2019t be thought of as stupid and idiotic. It ought to be thought of as the objective! It ought to be recognized for what it is.<\/p>\n

It is optimistic and it\u2019s inspiring. Damn straight! If they have a stadium that seats 100,000 people that want to watch Alabama football, then we\u2019re gonna fill it! We can go back to that. It\u2019s the right tone, it\u2019s the right policy, it\u2019s the right attitude. We\u2019re now almost two months through this, folks, “social purgatory, a kind of fatalism has set in among the right” people.<\/p>\n

You know, that\u2019s the thing. This new fatalism. (sobbing) “We can\u2019t go back to the way it was. We can never assume that again.” These are pessimists. These are fatalists, and they all happen to be the “smart” people. They all happen to be the Madeleine Albrights and the John Kerrys and the best and brightest types. The administrative state-types in Washington.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re out there saying this, as though it\u2019s the only intelligent thing to say, “Of course things can never go back to the way they were. To hell with that!” Not only can they, they should. Another pull quote. Again, this is David Marcus of The Federalist: “Death will play its sinister trick on all of us one day,” meaning it happens to everybody.<\/p>\n

\"\"“But death is not undefeated.” Jesus Christ conquered death. I realize that might be offensive to some of you, but Jesus Christ did. The resurrection. Jesus Christ conquered death with the message that we all can, that our souls all can. But that\u2019s not my point. Death “is not undefeated. Death has never conquered humanity.” Everybody dies, but humanity still lives. Humanity still is.<\/p>\n

“Even in the darkness of death\u2019s most ominous shadows human beings take strength in each other. Together we preserve all that is” desirable, all that we think is “wonderful. We must not surrender to a dehumanizing ‘new normal,\u2019 but bravely go forward” bravely and courageously, defiantly, “and claim our lives and society back. Why in the world should we just automatically agree with the assertion?<\/p>\n

“We can\u2019t go back to normal. Oh, no, we can\u2019t go back to way it.” Why not? I sure as hell want to! It\u2019s the most natural desire in the world, to go back to the way it was before this and to be told, “Oh, no, no, no, you can\u2019t do that.” It\u2019s being said by people that don\u2019t want to return to normal because they have another plan. They have other ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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