I think Rush Limbaugh sees the writing on the wall [View all]

[JonLP24]

I really don't want to link to him (I got there from Media Matters) but really wanted to share this. After the first several articles that are pretty much nonsense which is all I ever read from him but then he stumbles onto the obvious and makes sense explaining it though I'm pretty sure this is more about his radio audience than anything else but is almost dead on how the rest of us sees the Republican party though he doesn't explain how they are wrong -- just says "liberalism" is in danger of being stopped
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When you're between 25 and 54 you are in the midst of everything. You're right in the middle of it, because that's the age, for the most part, of people making things happen. But as you get older and you get out of that demographic and realize that that demographic is still where the power is -- exceptions, of course -- but you realize that people now moving into that 25-54 demographic have an entirely different worldview simply and only because of their age.

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When I was 20 I wanted to be 25; 25, wanted to be 30; 30, wanted to be 40. It always has proven out. Getting older has always been better for me. Everything about life got better as I got older. I became freer. I became more independent. I became more successful. Everything that I wanted and envisioned about getting older happened. Consequently, I never feared it, never feared getting older. So now people ask me, "Rush, you're over 60 now. Do you wish you were 70?"

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The 25-54 demographic is where a lot of things in our culture are happening. People are on their success tracks. People are becoming freer and becoming more independent, and they are becoming more successful, and they're making more decisions with more power behind them. They're becoming less dependent. They're arguably becoming (there are exceptions to this, of course) more self-reliant. They are attaining, in their careers, positions of greater influence and power and all of those kinds of related things.

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Do you wonder why conservatism to them is this obscure, way-out-there kind of odd thing? They've never been exposed to it, because the Republican Party has not been ideological since Reagan. They were either pups, infants, babies -- too young or not even born -- during Reagan, and that was the last conservative president, the last chance Republicans actually had to vote for a genuine conservative. They have grown up with completely other experiences, influences, attitudes.

I think it's crucial, rather than be critical of who they are and what they think, understand why that is, because it all makes sense. It's why I have continually harped, in this example, anyway. It's why I have just spent a lot of time trying to persuade people that ideology is crucial in persuading people, because these people that we're talking about -- young people, the Millennials -- don't know it, but they have grown up immersed in the left-wing ideology.

To them, it's just normal day ebb and flow life, and Republicans and conservatives over here are really from Mars. They haven't had presented to them an opposing ideology. They've got a bunch of old guys in suits and ties in Congress that want to stop what the Democrats are doing. But there's no ideological opposition to what they've grown up experiencing. I think it's missing a huge reason for why things are the way they are.

If the Republican Party is not going to be conservative, if it's not gonna present an ideological characterization of itself, if it's gonna hide that and try to deny that -- which it's doing -- then there's nothing that's ever gonna stop liberalism. The Republican Party is demonstrating that they have no desire to. I mean, the current Republican leadership. That is why I continually harp on this notion, this necessity that people be trained to spot the ideology of politicians or other political leaders.

If that doesn't happen, then the truth that you and I know about liberalism is gonna have a much tougher time being taught to people who have never even looked at life that way. Now, the left knows this. That's why they don't call themselves ideologues. Liberalism is not an ideological point of view the way they talk about. It's just natural. It's just what "is," and anything else may as well be from Mars. Anything else is odd, crude, extreme, discriminatory, or what have you.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/03/04/millennials_don_t_worship_the_clintons

The bold part is where I feel he nails it as I do & most younger people probably see the Republican party as "odd, crude, extreme, discriminatory". He just makes no sense when it comes to Liberalism or why it must be stopped but makes a point that they didn't grow up & live under the Reagan aura and the party is living off of Reagan still. I didn't and don't understand the Reagan worship but there it is.