{"id":382985,"date":"2021-02-24T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=382985"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:43:02","slug":"how-rush-converted-an-avowed-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/24\/how-rush-converted-an-avowed-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rush Converted an Avowed Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: Speaking of that let\u2019s talk to Ken in Livonia, Michigan, Ken, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program, Todd Herman sitting in for our departed friend. Welcome, Ken.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, I just wanted to call and give one of many examples of why I would see Rush Limbaugh as an American patriot. We are now living in a time where all of his enemies want to keep throwing mud at him. But I want to show some light on how he\u2019s actually changed my life and I believe so many others.<\/p>\n<p>At the time that I met Rush Limbaugh, which goes back to when he was on television, without a doubt I was a socialist. Now, some people that say, &#8220;Well, how do you know you were a socialist?&#8221; Well, I was a 100% strong supporter of the Democrat Party. I had read their platform. I approved of it. I had read the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx. I agree with it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, and I said at that time, &#8220;Hey, I\u2019m a socialist, man,&#8221; just like all the Democrats are today, socialists. Now, because of the education that I got from Rush Limbaugh, education on economics, education in history, and talking about the U.S. Constitution, why it was created, everything I learned from Rush Limbaugh, and then I went out on my own and investigated to make sure what he said was true.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8230; Where I was an atheist\/socialist, today, because of Rush &#8212; the influence of Rush Limbaugh &#8212; I\u2019m a Christian who\u2019s a constitutionalist, who believes in the free market system. And here\u2019s the difference that I saw thanks to Rush. Any country that follows the belief system, the worldview held by the Democrat Party and, unfortunately now, even many of the Republicans have joined in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-383003\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022421-Socialism-Fails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022421-Socialism-Fails.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022421-Socialism-Fails-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-20201-022421-Socialism-Fails-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>We end up being the former Soviet Union. We end up today being Venezuela, China, Cuba. Well, I believe in freedom. I want to live in a nation where I\u2019m a citizen under a small government, not a servant &#8212; a subject &#8212; under a big, fat, bloated government like we see here in Michigan, what we see in Washington, D.C., because here\u2019s the big thing that I learned.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll apply that to today. And there again, I\u2019ll attribute this to Rush Limbaugh. God gave me intelligence, and intelligence tells me Dr. Fauci and the CDC, they\u2019re not my God, and I\u2019m gonna follow my God that has given me intellect, and so since I know that all the research scientists who come out and said that wearing a mask is 100% useless &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TODD: Yeah. Yeah. Yep.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; I\u2019m gonna steer away from wearing a mask &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TODD: Good.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; \u2019cause I know that they\u2019re no good.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: You know what you\u2019re doing &#8212; and I hate to cut you off. The clock becomes our enemy. What you\u2019ve said here, first of all, let me say: God is great and that Rush helped bring you to that. But your recognition, Ken&#8230; Your recognition is that being a big person requires a small government. You said that so well. This is why I describe myself as a &#8220;small government, big person&#8221; person.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why Rush so often, as you just said so well, talked about the bloat, talked about these people and organizations who feel themselves godlike. And I remember Rush talking about the amount of water Congress should allow in toilets or lightbulbs that Congress would deem to allow us in our homes.<\/p>\n<p>And now we\u2019re on the edge of government now deciding what\u2019s true, literally having truth czars. They\u2019re proposing this. Rush was right on that, and I\u2019m just so pleased to know that he helped turn your life around, and now you\u2019re a functioning member of society completely. Thank you so much for the call, Ken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALLER: I want to show some light on how he&#039;s actually changed my life and I believe so many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":383003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Rush Converted an Avowed Socialist - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/24\/how-rush-converted-an-avowed-socialist\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How Rush Converted an Avowed Socialist - 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