Rush: Where are the Pro-Obama Callers?

Rush Limbaugh Show

Because of my job, I can't listen to all of the show.  I have to get into and out of my truck and make my deliveries.  On the way between places, I can listen to the show.  I heard this call, or maybe parts of it, and I was inclined to be critical of Rush.

But wait.  I want to be accurate, so I go back and read the transcripts of the show on the site, and guess what?  Rush is right.  But I still have a few quibbles.

This may be a complex post, so hang with me on this.

The main quibble is about ideology.  I have posted many times here that I think that ideology can make you stupid.  I have also stated that I don't think Ronald Reagan trusted ideology.  Rush idolizes Reagan.  But he is missing something that I think is quite significant and important.  Reagan never identified himself as a rightist.  Rush does.  That's the difference.

Conservatism does not necessarily equate with rightism.  Rightism is a part of the communist paradigm.  If you identify with that, you are identifying with that ideology.  Supposedly, you are opposed to it, but in reality, you are identifying with it.  And that is a big mistake.  Reagan never made that mistake.

Rush is right to go after Obama on ideology.  But he is wrong to identify conservatism with rightism.

I see the problem as big government statism.  I'd say the vast majority of Americans, including Democrats, are capitalists.  So, you have to make some distinctions.  Not all of the Democrats are socialists.  A certain percentage them are, but not all of them.  It may not even be the majority of Democrats who are socialists.  I think a lot of them are just there to collect the benefits of big government statism.  But I don't think they necessarily agree with the ideology of socialism.  That's why Reagan could get Democrat support, by the way.  There are those on the left who claimed Reagan was a statist, but I think that is just smoke being blown into your eyes.  The left needs to hide, and they do it with their lies.

So, Rush is right to go after Obama on his socialism.  But wrong to identify himself as a rightist.  And wrong to identify all Democrats as socialists, if he's doing that.

He'd be better off not dissing moderates too.

Our main problem now is with the big government statism.  The government is getting too big and out of control.  It needs to be downsized.  The private markets have not failed.  No.  The market has been burdened with too much government interference.

Obama has not cured what was ailing General Motors.  If he had, they could get out of the auto business.  But the government still owns the stock.  The government had a hand in the failure of the auto business.  It supported the labor unions who made the company uncompetitive.  He has done nothing to solve that problem.  Instead, he has come in and taken over a business and eventually it will be considered a government enterprise.  They may have begun this with the claim that the stock will eventually be sold, but since it isn't being sold, it is still government owned.  It will become permanent.  Therefore, the company is not private anymore.  That is the very definition of socialism.  But it all started out as a big government statist operation.  It morphed into socialism.

The big government statists are making more and more constituencies like this one.  But as they do, they are opening the door to the socialists, like Obama.

The more food stamps and welfare statist like policies are created, the more big government statist constituencies you will have under their control and voting for them.  This is an example of a plan.  This is an example of a system for expanding power and control.  Once it reaches the majority, it will be impossible to stop them in a democratic fashion.  After that, it is either rebellion or submission.  After that, it will be too late for reason and compromise.  Even if you are a Democrat, but not a socialist, you will have to submit to the socialists.  Something for you to think about, I should think.

The Tea Party just wants the government to obey the Constitution and the rule of law.  If the Tea Party did not stand for this, I would not be in favor of them.  I wouldn't want to wager their chance of ultimate success, though.  There are those who think that the country is too far gone for them to make a difference.  For me, it is too hard to say just yet, but there are some encouraging signs.  But some discouraging signs too.  California just keeps voting Democrat in spite of their troubles.  That's the kind of thing that can happen to the rest of  this country.  We may have passed the tipping point.  The big government statists may be too big now and may not be stoppable.  We'll have to see.

No, my problem with Rush isn't fundamental.  It is a small quibble, but an important one.  You can't play their game. You can't rely upon big government statism on your own side to offset theirs.  You have to stand apart from the big government statism.  And that big government mindset exists on the Republican side as well.

On the Republican side, you've got big military contracts.  These gold plated weapon systems should be carefully examined.  My worry is that they are too big of a target and may not be survivable in a big war.  If these weapon systems don't survive, we'll be in big trouble.  I'm all for systems that will work.  But when you are dealing with big government statism, what you end up with may be something that benefits a small minority, but may not work, and won't benefit the country as a whole.  It's the same principle that exists on the left with their buying of constituencies--like GM.  In that case, it will fail us as the big government statists have failed us on the left.  We should prioritize our spending on the things that are really important.  An example? I'd say missile defense, for one.  Some tin pot dictators with a nuclear version of a Saturday night special may be able to get the drop on us.  That should never be allowed to happen.

We may have only one more chance to get this right with this election.  My quibbles with Rush may seem too fine of a point, but we can't afford many mistakes.  Our margin of error may be really small.  We may have to be perfect to succeed.  It may be that close.  The stakes are too high to take a chance that it may not be.