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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s the last Caller of the Day yesterday that we didn\u2019t have time to get to. He gave us his phone number, allowed us to call him back. It\u2019s August in White Lake, Michigan. I\u2019m glad that you gave us your number, August. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush, for reaching out to me. I can\u2019t tell you how much it means, how much we love you, how much we\u2019re with you, and on those tougher days, you keep fighting. You keep fighting. Everybody, we all have some challenges. You keep fighting. And then when you get those good days, you treat yourself. It\u2019s a gift. You can celebrate Christmas, Easter, a birthday every day of our life.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If you want to, yeah, if you have that attitude, that\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. So why not? All of a sudden, Rush, I\u2019m 65. I\u2019m considered a senior season. I go, “What? Who gets to decide that?” Well, the government, of course. So now I\u2019m gonna get on Medicare and — come on. Give me a break.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Look, time is dwindling. Get to the point about your daughter. Your daughter is sponsoring a Black Lives Matter rally and the family is gonna help create more open dialogue. I want to hear about this.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Okay. You\u2019re absolutely correct. And that\u2019s gonna happen today. My youngest daughter, who will be a junior at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and she is of the mind-set that\u2019s her gig to reach out and try to help people and do what she can. So she had an opportunity through the university to go to Tanzania last summer. While there, she got introduced of course to that culture, which I\u2019m all for. The more you can expose yourself to things, as long as obviously it\u2019s not dangerous, you do it. Keep an open mind, open heart, go for it, and she actually taught them English.<\/p>\n
That was her goal. That was her mission. So that may have had some affect on her life. She also has a very close friend from high school whose mother decided, even after raising her children, to adopt a black male child. So that\u2019s kind of entered into her life. So it\u2019s all these things that she\u2019s been exposed to which I\u2019m frankly happy about. That\u2019s what life\u2019s about. Find out. Don\u2019t yell at people. Don\u2019t get upset at people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, look. We\u2019re still not where I think you called about. Let me tell you what\u2019s written for me to see that you wanted to say.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It says up here “Millennials are more of a force. My daughter\u2019s sponsoring a BLM rally, and the family is gonna help create more open dialogue.” You haven\u2019t spoken about any of that yet and I\u2019m down to 90 seconds left.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is that not what you were calling about?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, that\u2019s absolutely correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely correct. And it is — listen. We know that the educational system has indoctrinated — and, frankly, our younger generation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, it started first about the whole sexual — if you think about it, sexual revelation, right, be more open. Then you\u2019ve got obviously more homosexuals coming up front. You\u2019ve got people talking about it in grade school. Are you kidding me? Do people even know what\u2019s going on in the school system? But this is what they\u2019re being taught.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yes. My point, yes they know what\u2019s going on and they\u2019ve let it happen. This is what I thought you were gonna say. This is why I wanted to get back to you. I have a whole lot — I\u2019m not gonna name names. I have a whole lot of friends that I knew for a number of years, and they were as rock rib conservatives as I. They\u2019ve got kids. They went away to college. They came back, and especially if they were daughters, if they came back preaching an entirely different — I\u2019ve lost these guys as friends.<\/p>\n
They have become full-fledged feminist type liberals. And their daughters are Millennials and so forth. And it\u2019s made me realize who\u2019s running all this. It is white Millennial women that are propelling the Black Lives Matter movement. They\u2019re funding it, they\u2019re raising money for it, they are providing people on the ground. It\u2019s an amazing cultural phenomenon to me. And I thought you were gonna say the same things happened to you, that you used to be one way, your daughter goes to college, comes back and now look what you\u2019re doing. I might have misunderstood that, but, sadly, I\u2019m out of time.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So I checked the emails during the break. I\u2019m getting a lot of emails asking, “Would you explain this business of daughters going away to college, coming back, and changing their parents\u2019 minds?” Yeah, I\u2019ll be happy to. I mean, my experience with it is limited, obviously. Well, it\u2019s not that limited. I think it\u2019s happening all over.<\/p>\n
I think it\u2019s been happening for longer than anybody knows, and it\u2019s such a stark difference from the way I was brought up — and again, do not misunderstand. There\u2019s nothing about this that… I\u2019m not being an old fuddy-duddy, get-off-my-lawn kind of old, crotchety guy. I\u2019m just chronicling differences for you, and I have noticed something, and I didn\u2019t know how to deal with it when I first encountered it.<\/p>\n
I first encountered it ten years ago. A friend of mine was a big, big conservative (it\u2019s how we met), and he was eminently successful in his field. And in many ways, he was far more conservative than I. And then one day, we\u2019re out on the golf course, and he says, “I don\u2019t know what all this talk about immigration is. It\u2019s the greatest thing this country\u2019s got going for it.”<\/p>\n
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What?” “Yeah. If it weren\u2019t for immigration, we wouldn\u2019t even have a country. You know, California\u2019s no different today than it was 50 years ago. I don\u2019t know what people are talking about.” “What?” It went on and on and on like that, and I said, “I\u2019ve never known you to think this way.”<\/p>\n
“My daughter opened my eyes.” “How\u2019d that happen?” “Well, she went away to college. She\u2019d come home, and we had these talks, and I had my eyes opened. I never looked at things that way.” Well, I was paralyzed, and that was repeated with practically everybody I knew who was conservative who had kids — and mostly women.<\/p>\n
It was mostly daughters who went away to college, and were coming back after the first semester, after the first half year. I began to ask… There was no way, when I was 18, 19, or 20 that I was gonna change my dad\u2019s mind on anything. It wasn\u2019t going to be possible, and the reason it wasn\u2019t going to be possible was that there\u2019s no way I could have known more than he did.<\/p>\n
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He was much older than I. He had lived longer. He was brilliant in his own right. He had studied his whole life, and it was from him that I learned, not the other way around. Now, I would go home and… You know, I did go to a semester of college, and I\u2019d go home, and I would tell him things I\u2019d been taught, and he would tell me how stupid they were rather than be influenced by it. There was one time I was…<\/p>\n
He was really worried I wasn\u2019t interested in school, and I had a professor that I loved. So he wanted to get to know the professor, and he did, and he wanted to find out what it was I liked about the professor that seemed to make me only interested in that professor in that class — and he didn\u2019t agree with the professor on anything, by the way. It was a Government Affairs professor.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t agree with the guy at all, and told him so. But didn\u2019t matter because I, his son, liked the guy, and so he was interested in finding out why the relationship I had with the teacher was working, \u2019cause he thought it was benefiting me. But in terms of changing his mind about things? I would have never been able to change his mind about communism. I would have never (chuckling) had I been inclined to. It would have not been possible.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s effectively what is happening today.<\/p>\n
Young Millennial students are going away to college, and they\u2019re coming back, and they\u2019re basically bringing back Marxism, Leninism, and communist theory that they\u2019re being taught. Not in those words. They\u2019re bringing it home as compassionate policy for this minority group or that minority group — and for some reason, the parents are accepting it and changing their entire worldview in order to please and satisfy the kids.<\/p>\n
I guess one of the differences is that back in my day, parents — just for the most part. There are exceptions to everything. But back in my day, parents did not look at their kids as people to become friends with. Being a parent was far more important and responsible than simply becoming friends with the kids. Besides, when you want to become friends with somebody, you have to approve of them.<\/p>\n
You have to look the other way at shortcomings — and that\u2019s not how parents in my era looked at raising kids. Now, there were some that did. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But, as a general rule, in my era, parents were there to bend, shape, mold, teach, inculcate values and morality and whatever else the family thought was important for its young members to know.<\/p>\n
The idea of being able to change an adult\u2019s mind on core value things was a pipe dream, but now it\u2019s happening regularly. Folks, I can tell you, I have… (sigh) I\u2019ve gotta be very careful here, because the people I\u2019m talking about, without me even mentioning their names, know who I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m gonna be in for it now, and my saving grace is, “I never said your name! Nobody knows I was talking about you!”<\/p>\n
“Well, I know you\u2019re talking about me! I didn\u2019t know you felt that way.” “Yes, you did.” But, anyway, I have friends who are now grandparents who are watching… Now, I gotta be very careful here. I gotta be… See, this is what mean. I am so famous; it even limits the fascinating stories that I could tell you. Ah, and this one is a piece de resistance-type story.<\/p>\n
How can I do this?<\/p>\n
How can I do it?<\/p>\n
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I have friends who are grandparents who simply refuse to tell their own kids how full of it, they are because they\u2019re afraid their kids will shut them away from their grandkids. (interruption) I know! It is very real. But the point is, there\u2019s no pushback on this anywhere. Nowhere! In schools, the parents are afraid to call out bad-actor teachers because it\u2019s gonna harm their kids\u2019 grades, and they might not be able to go to college.<\/p>\n
So all of this stuff is being gotten away it. I\u2019m just telling you, the upshot of this is the young Millennial women — and it is predominantly women. The number of young men going to college is dwindling every year. The number of young women in college and then graduates and Millennials, who are propelling much of the social issue stuff that you see on TV leading to riots and looting?<\/p>\n
The so-called peaceful protests? I\u2019m telling you it is Millennial women, wealthy, white, liberal, Millennial women who are behind this. And you can find their groups on Instagram where they unify, solidify, and validate each other in their various beliefs. The coming home from school and changing the minds of parents, that\u2019s an ancillary story to the primary thing that I see.<\/p>\n
To me, that\u2019s just a fascinating difference that could not possibly have happened when I was growing up. “Are you saying that you never changed your parents\u2019 minds?” Maybe if they had a version of a story wrong. I\u2019m talking about, I would have never been able to change my dad\u2019s mind on communism, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n
Let me tell you something, if your daughter comes home from school and makes you a supporter of Black Lives Matter, you are supporting Marxism. Did you grow up believing in it? You probably don\u2019t even know that that\u2019s what you\u2019re supporting. If you think you need to be open-minded and tolerant and understanding of Black Lives Matter and this CHOP shop out in Seattle and of whatever other manifestations there are of all of this unrest, protest, looting, if you think that you are exhibiting great tolerance and understanding, you\u2019re simply getting out of the way and supporting Marxism.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m just telling you that there is no way I would have ever been able to come home and change my dad\u2019s mind or my mom\u2019s about something as seminally important as that. I remember the first time that I heard about the New World Order Rockefeller Trilateral Commission conspiracy, I ran home, I said, “Dad, you won\u2019t believe this.”<\/p>\n
He said, “What?”<\/p>\n
I said, “The president of the United States is not running the country. The Congress isn\u2019t running the country. David Rockefeller runs the country. Did you know this?”<\/p>\n
My dad kind of had a little smile on his face. “No, Son. What do you mean?” And I rattled off everything I had just heard. Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, da-da-da-da-da-da-da. He acted really interested, like he hadn\u2019t heard any of this before. And he started asking me questions. “Son, how are these people able to do that and only you know it?”<\/p>\n
“What do you mean?”<\/p>\n
“I mean, a lot of people here actually running the country. How come nobody knows it? That\u2019s a lot of people to keep a secret.”<\/p>\n
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I said, “Well, I don\u2019t know.” He started asking me questions that made me immediately doubt the conspiracy theory. But he didn\u2019t say, “You fool. You idiot. You\u2019re embarrassing me. You can\u2019t tell me you fell for this.” He went about it in an entirely different way of trying demonstrate to me — the point is he had heard it. And here I am coming home. I\u2019d heard this conspiracy theory the first time, I think my dad can\u2019t know, he doesn\u2019t know about this. There wasn\u2019t anything I knew that he didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
But you know what? It\u2019s entirely possible today, given how loatheful and incompetent the American public education system has been for decades, it\u2019s entirely possible that parents today and even grandparents today are so ill-educated in certain instances that they don\u2019t know more than their kids do. I tell you, you know, writing those Rush Revere books, that was an eye-opener. We wrote these Rush Revere books, there are five of \u2019em. We wrote \u2019em for kids, 8 to 12. You would be amazed at the number of adults who told us they loved reading the books.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t know half the stuff in the books. And they were simply books about the American founding written for 8- to 12-year-old readers. I\u2019m sitting there, I\u2019m scratching my head, I\u2019m flattered by it, on the one hand. But how in the hell can some of these people not have been taught this stuff? Of course, the first Thanksgiving, that has been so bastardized and blown up, we\u2019ve all been taught that lie. But there were other aspects of the Pilgrims and who they were and why they came and what they went through, people had no idea. They had a totally wrong idea based on how they had been taught about things.<\/p>\n