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RUSH: Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make, and I mean precisely that. When I say that conservatism is an applied process or behavior, I know that sounds confusing because you may think that I\u2019m saying conservatism isn\u2019t natural, it is. <\/p>\n

But liberalism is the dominant belief system in our culture today because of the media. Pop culture is populated by people who think that way, and it\u2019s considered to be what\u2019s hip, and that\u2019s what everybody wants to be. Everybody wants to be hip and cool, and most people aren\u2019t hip. Most people aren\u2019t cool. But everybody wants to be. Liberalism offers you the chance. <\/p>\n

Liberalism offers you the chance to be in the club of the hip and the cool. And you don\u2019t have to do anything. You don\u2019t even have to be a good person. All you have to do is act like one. All you have to do is see suffering and comment on it and be heartbroken by it, and you\u2019re qualified. It\u2019s the easiest thing, anybody can do that. <\/p>\n

But doing that doesn\u2019t advance a single thing. Doing it, expressing sorrow, acting heartbroken, telling other people how heartbroken you are, and then for the cherry on top, blaming other people for the plight of whosever\u2019s suffering you\u2019re witnessing, well, that is even better. If you know who to blame you can be even hipper and you can be even cooler. <\/p>\n

And in the midst of all this you actually make things worse because you do not advance the ball in any way. There is no problem solving. There\u2019s no honesty in addressing what\u2019s genuinely wrong because that\u2019s not what liberalism is. Liberalism is about assuaging guilt, blaming other people for problems, and getting credit for recognizing there are problems. And that\u2019s all you have to do. <\/line><\/p>\n

Conservatism, however, is an applied application. It\u2019s a daily applied process. It\u2019s an intellectually determinant belief system. Even though most people live their lives as conservatives, it\u2019s a phenomenon they don\u2019t vote that way. Well, more and more people are. But this story, I was in Hollywood. This is 1990 and shortly after the radio program began. Hollywood\u2019s always looking for the next big thing, and I was a big thing on radio, so, well, let\u2019s see, I forget who — I mean, I know the guy\u2019s first name is Bruno, but I don\u2019t remember the studio or the producer, any of that. <\/p>\n

He called me up to talk to me and discuss concepts and ideas. And it\u2019s all new to me. I\u2019ve never been to Hollywood. I\u2019ve never met anybody in Hollywood. I don\u2019t know anything about how it works. And I simply acknowledged that invitation to go. To me, it was a learning opportunity. I remember at the time Arsenio Hall had a show and it was big. So I\u2019m sitting across a table at lunch, some famous Hollywood restaurant with this Bruno guy, and I look at him and say, “Can you tell me what it is about the Arsenio Hall show that works, what is it that makes it big?” <\/p>\n

And the guy lost it. He looked at me, raised his voice, started pounding the table and said, “What do you mean, why does it work? What\u2019s your problem with it working? You got a problem with a skinny black kid being a success? Is that your problem?” And I am totally taken aback. This guy met me for the first time moments earlier. “You got a problem with a skinny black kid? That\u2019s why the program — because this country has been so evil. This country has been so discriminatory. Here comes a young, skinny, funny black kid taking over the country, and you got a problem.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Then why are you talking to me, Bruno, if that\u2019s what we need to do to have a successful TV show? Because I\u2019m not skinny, and I\u2019m not black. And if that\u2019s all it takes to be successful on TV, then why are you talking to me?” And then he apologized, \u2019cause, I mean, he really lost it for about a minute. And then he became apologetic, asked me to forgive him. What it boiled down to was he knew I was conservative and that\u2019s all he needed to know. <\/p>\n

All I had to do was ask, “Why does the Arsenio Hall show work?” And to him I was a racist. That\u2019s how easy being a liberal is. Just call me a racist, assume I\u2019m a racist, defend Arsenio, but don\u2019t give Arsenio any credit for talent. No, no, no, no. He never told me production-wise, talent-wise, why the Arsenio show worked. In his world, the Arsenio show worked because America\u2019d been so unfair, so discriminatory, slavery, that we owed Arsenio Hall success. And that\u2019s what I mean. That\u2019s how easy this stuff is. It was substance-less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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