Rush: Don't give up
It all seems futile. The Obama regime's assault is relentless and currently unstoppable. It has revved up federal spending and bureaucratic bungling to a degree that will require new taxes -- and plenty of them -- just to keep the now-monstrous federal deficit from spiraling totally out of control. What are jobless, discouraged Americans to do?
Americans are now awakening to the grim realities stemming from the forced transformational change of their constitutional republic into something few ever imagined -- an overbearing, onerous, and decidedly un-American form of totalitarianism.They are experiencing a level of frustration and a degree of powerlessness over what is happening because the likelihood of such an occurrence was commonly believed by most, for at least the life span of any living American, to simply be impossible. This is America! Nothing of the sort could ever happen here.
However, reality is a strict taskmaster and it is therefore not surprising that Americans are losing confidence in intrusive government, State-run Media, and their own abilities to persevere and overcome. What's worse, there is no way to even begin a reversal of what is happening until the next general election in November -- and that is only the first of many hard decisions Americans must make in the coming years.
Nearing a tipping point
The vast majority of Americans are now dispirited by what has been done to their nation and by the knowledge that they must wait several months before they can vent at the voting booth. They have long-since stopped believing State-run Media's "recovery" propaganda and parroted regime talking points. For the first time in many of their lives, a majority of Americans are outraged over the heavy-handed, unconstitutional arrogance displayed by the ruling party in its headlong frenzy to fundamentally socialize American society.
Subjugation was never a change Americans wanted nor in which they ever believed.
Despite a Democrat Congress that has come to be known for its embrace and acceptance of negativity and failure, despite an Obama regime that has bungled miserably in all issues domestic and foreign, despite the Democrat elites who spend to unprecedented levels yet can't accomplish anything except payola for cronies and misery for the nation, there are those who are harbingers of hope. Real hope and not the glib, malignant muddle of a disingenuous campaign sloganeer.
Rush is right
In direct contrast to all of the leftist negativity is Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh is to New Media what the Founders were to the Constitution, and by his stature are all others in media measured. Hated and feared by the enemies of America, despised by elites, yet admired by tens of millions, Limbaugh is an unabashed cheerleader for American success, the Constitution, and Founding conservative principles.
His adversaries are in a perpetual state of anger because they know he cannot be conned, compromised, or cowed. Rush's daily, three-hour broadcast deftly delivers a seamless melding of common-sense, humor, and critical thought -- designed to compel all Americans to achieve greatness -- in an ever-positive mien. Despite incessant attacks from the highest levels of the Washington regime, State-run Media, and the radical Left, he stands above all others in his defiance of those who wish to harm America.
Whilst motoring the one hour it takes to visit eldest daughter, I happened to hear Rush Limbaugh field a call from a discouraged young man in Illinois. His name was Ted and he asked Rush if everything was ever going get better, or was it pretty much what he had to look forward to for the rest of his adult life. Here, in synopsized version, is how Rush responded (excerpted from The Rush Limbaugh Show transcript, June 30, 2010):
Don't Give Up, Just Keep Going
"Ted, let me tell you something. Things are going to get better. This is the United States of America and the people who live here are still Americans. And we are seeing now there's a disconnect between the American people and Obama. His approval numbers are plummeting. It's been 18 months. Nothing he's doing is working. There is a continually increasing lack of confidence and faith in Obama and his policies.
The American people are not the people to just sit around and let this kind of thing happen to them. At some point -- and we may have reached it -- there will be a tipping point. People are not going to sit idly by and consign their children and grandchildren to lives of debt bondage, debt slavery, where they're basically working to pay off debt that is not even theirs. People aren't going to put up with it.
This is the United States of America. People are not going to put up with the notion that we're not going to lead the world in anything ever again. They're not going to put up with talk that says, 'Eight million jobs lost? Yep, we're never going to be able to recreate 'em.' Americans are not going to sit there and be satisfied with the notion, 'The border is too big. We can't close it.' This is the country put a man on the moon. This is the country that led the world in liberty and freedom and creating economic prosperity, medical advances to improve life expectancy.
The American people have great expectations. This administration does not. They preside and want to preside over a country in decline. The American people don't want decline. The American people want growth! The American people don't want whirlybird cars and windmills in the backyard. They want automobiles that they always have wanted. Powerful. They want air-conditioning and heat when they want it. They know it's plentiful. They don't want a government that's going to stand in the way and prevent them from having this.
At some point, it starts in November, there is going to be a message sent, 'Hey, Mr. Obama?' and, 'Hey, Democrat Party? You ain't us. You are not the America that we want to be,' and it's going to start that way. So don't give up.
Your future is bright because you're an American, but it's going to take you being involved. It may be a little harder for you than it was for people in the past. There's no question that this bunch has put obstacles in your way. But, Ted, here's the best thing I could tell you to back up what I'm saying: While all of this economic misery is being reported -- and while a lot of it is real, and while there's a lot of unemployment and a lot of people are running out of unemployment benefits -- you look around this country and you also see people improving their lot in life, don't you?
Not everybody is selling their house, not everybody is selling the car, not everybody is taking kids out of school. There are people who are prospering. They either know how to in circumstances like this or they're simply possessed of the American spirit. The point is that it's going to be people like that and you and others emulating them who are in the private sector who are precisely going to be the ones to save this country, in spite of this administration. You don't want to grow up in a nation in decline, do you?
You don't want to be told that there's not going to be a job for you down the road, do you? All right, so if the people leading you tell you there's not going to be a job, you're not going to sit there and take it. At some point, Ted, you're going to go out there and do something about it yourself -- and at some point the entire nation's going to do that.
We are not gonna sit idly by and elite bunch of Marxists turn us into Venezuela or Greece. We are the people of the United States of America, and we're not going to permit it to happen. It's that simple. Don't give up, Ted. Follow me."
Listen as El Rushbo encourages Ted.
In a remarkably brief, four-minute span, Limbaugh's passionate, spontaneous, positive reply assuaged the doubt of the young caller while at the same time lucidly defined the essence of the American Spirit.
Rush is right. Don't give up. Just keep going.
Obama is wrong. Pelosi is wrong. Reid is wrong. The radical Left is wrong. Remember in November. The long, hard struggle for reclamation begins then.
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