Did you get a chance to hear Rush yesterday, when he did a segment on “What are you proud of, America?” He was illustrating how so much of American business has been demonized by the liberal and socialist elements in their quest for the power and control of government. Spot on the money! He started from a discussion about oil, and the misconception that oil is evil.
RUSH: I want to continue this discussion about oil and alternative fuel sources and so forth and the whole notion of a free market, and entrepreneurism, and zero-sum games. Way too many of you, because of the effort to demonize oil — not just because of the mistaken notion that our purchases of oil are funding terrorism. That’s ridiculous. Terrorists are not using oil revenues to be funded. Even that aside, oil has been successfully demonized in this country to the point that otherwise intelligent, educated people think we can just get rid of it tomorrow. They’re operating under the assumption that there is an alternative energy already out there, “We just refuse to use it,” because Big Oil and Big Lobbyists and Big Republicans are keeping us from this alternative energy. Let me tell you. Look at me, folks. Look at me. The only alternative energy that we have right now or for the next 20 or 30 years, is the energy we refuse to drill for in ANWR: oil. The only alternative energy we have for the next 20 or 30 years is oil in the Gulf of Mexico that we refuse to drill for but the ChiComs and the Cubans are drilling for it in the Gulf, and the Mexicans are. We did lay claim to a huge field up in the Arctic Circle recently.
But the liberal Democrats will not let our country pursue this alternative energy. They will not let us drill for it; they will not let us refine it. They will not allow it to happen. Above and beyond that, this zero-sum game aspect, the idea that we can just get rid of oil tomorrow or next year or five years from now, and replace it with something that’s just as productive, efficient, and economical is absurd. It is just intellectually absurd.
So is the notion that oil is evil. So is the notion that it has been so demonized.
He goes on to talk about how so many things in this country have been demonized by the Left… the insurance industry, the auto industry, home builders, pharmaceuticals, the military. But do you like the government?
Do you like government? “Oh, yes! Oh, yes! Government cares for me. Government loves me. Government wants me to have health care, that they don’t have to pay for, and government wants me to be safe from storms, and government wants me to not have to pay taxes.
“Government only wants the rich to pay taxes. Oh, we love government. We are really proud of our government in America.”
Not George Bush’s government. Certainly not. But HRC or BHO’s government? Oh yes, that’s a government who cares.
You ought to read the whole thing, because it makes a great point. Read all the different things we’ve been taught to hate about America. We used to be proud of this country, the opportunities it provides and the amazing accomplishments that have been made. Now, not so much. We’ve been trained for years by the Left and the big media to hate much of what makes this country great. This isn’t just a poor little rich girl like Michelle Obama bitching and whining about white America. This is spread throughout our culture today. I’ve heard this “ashamed of America” crap in my own family. The same folks who say they revere JFK are solidly behind the “Hope and Change for Evil America” campaign. “Ask not what your country can do for you” is an alien idea today, and “God damn America” is now a campaign slogan. If you think that is just some deluded old Black separatist preacher talking, think again.
Hatred for America is real. You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it. You’ve read it. It’s out there, and it’s in larger numbers than you know. And the people who hate this country are the genuine mind-numbed robots. They have been talked into it with years and years and years of propaganda. Just ask yourself, when you have a free moment — maybe bring it up at dinner if you have a family still eats together now and then. Ask them, “What are you proud of in America?” Don’t lead ‘em anywhere. Just say, “What are proud of, when you think about America. What are you proud of?” and then deal with what you get. It will be interesting.
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