November 2, 2021 • 13 mins
RUSH: Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelley, it’s great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush!
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: Yeah. Shelley from Charlottesville, Virginia. I’m just wondering, Rush. I’ve been around for, oh, about five or six decades. I’ve seen a lot of politics either way, gone through a lot of presidents. I’m Republican, but I’ve had a lot of Democratic friends. Where do these crazy, super mental cases come from? I mean, it’s like they just came out of the woodwork one day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff starts happening. When did that happen, and where did they come from?
RUSH: Well, I’m actually glad you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this reaction that you’re having within three months of Obama being inaugurated. All through the Bush years, I mean, we saw radical leftists out there, the anti-war people. But it was primarily in the media. I mean, during the Bush years, we had George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was a joke running in 2004, never really seriously a contender. Our problems then were that Bush was not reacting to the media — the destruction, his attempts to sabotage his regime and the wars and all this.
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Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelly. Great to have you on
the program. Hello Rush, Hey, Um yeah, Shelly from Charlottesville, Virginia.
I'm just wondering, Rush, I've been around for about over
six decades saying a lot of politics either way. God's
(00:23):
are a lot of presidents, had a lot of I'm Republicans,
but I've had a lot of Democratic friends. Um, where
did these crazy super mental cases come from? I mean,
it's like they just come out of the woodwork one
day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff
starts happening. When did that happen? And and and where
(00:44):
did they come from? Well, you know, I'm actually glad
you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this
reaction that you're having within three months of Obama being inaugurated.
All through the Bush ears, I mean, we saw radical
leftists out there, the anti war people, but it was
primarily in the media. Uh. And I mean during the
(01:07):
Bush with George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was
a joke running in two thousand four, never really seriously
a contender. Um Our problems then was that that Bush
was not reacting to the media that the destruction the
attempts to sabotage his regime in the wars and and
(01:30):
all this. Then Obama gets elected. All of a sudden
it hit me the same way you have just described
to here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half
of this country mainstream radical left. I said, where did
these people come from? Where has this been? I had
to conclude that I knew the answer that they had
been lurking out there all along. Where they came from
(01:52):
as the American education system primarily. There are other avenues
pop culture, but the American education system and the Democrat
Party or primarily it. And if I wanted to even
get more specific, I could, because a lot of this
(02:14):
radical leftism that you're talking about, Tyler millennials is cultural
as well, and I think with Obama's election somehow it
just it's surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction
you did. And for a while I was telling myself
(02:34):
that it can't be mainstream. There aren't enough. We can't
have lost this ground. Ian. We know these people have
always been there, but they've always been considered to be
a really really small minority troublemaking and loud, violent, dangerous
public protest. This kind of thing. But to me, it
(02:56):
did seem like the election of Obama just brought a
bunch of people out from hiding from behind the woodwork.
And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many
of these people were young millennials. So that to me
has to be the education system. And I think you're
(03:22):
probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.
I actually believe that one of the primary, one of
the main issues that has led to this is the
radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that
(03:47):
snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that
shows it's not important to ten percent of the country.
Nobody was believing it. The millennial explosion after Obama's inauguration
featured a lot of radical liberalism, but climate change I
think was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination
(04:13):
that was being used. And look, it goes back even
to Ted Turner's Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet
as Superpower are a superhero trying to destroy all corporations
because they're destroying the planet. And in anticipation of this
(04:34):
subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One
of them, you know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince
Charles has got to be well. It is a nice guy,
it does a lot for charity, but the guy is
a loon. And you would be too. If you were
(04:54):
born to be the future king and here you are
s and your mother has no intention of getting out
of the way and handing it to you. May die
before you become king. You'd have to do something to
make your life meaningful to I mean, imagine the last
fifty years thinking you're gonna be king, and not the
last five thinking by the time I'm king, I won't
(05:14):
even know I'm king. You're gonna put me in a home. Well,
Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that
thinks climate change is going to destroy us. And one
year he will say we've got two days. The next
year he'll say we've got a reprieve. We've got about
thirty years now. Well, now he's back. The Prince of
Wales has warned global leaders that if we don't tackle
(05:39):
climate change in the next year and a half, the
human race will go extinct. He made these comments in
a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from throughout
the Commonwealth. He said, I am firmly of the view
that the next eighteen month will decide our ability to
(06:01):
keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature
to the equilibrium we need for our survival. In two
thousand and fifteen, Prince Charles gave the world thirty five years.
Alexandria Cortez says, we have twelve years. But then when
(06:25):
people actually acted on that, well, you know, it's a generality.
It's a it's a ballpark. How many times in all
of these recent years have we've been told we've got
ten years, We've got twelve years, we've got five years,
we've got fifty years. We don't have any time. We're
beyond our ability to do anything about it. These people
(06:46):
are all over the ballpark now, Prince Charles in an
official speech eighteen months The scary thing is, I can
show you mass numbers of nils who believe it takes
me to my second story. There are actually three. This
(07:10):
is the Boston Herald and Editorial yesterday. Carbon emissions are
soon to become the latest portal the state of Massachusetts
uses to reach the wallet of Massachusetts taxpayers. A bill
is gaming Momentum on Beacon Hill that would place a
fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels. Executive director
(07:34):
Michael Green of Climate Exchange, a nonprofit of course with
a mission to fight climate change, counter that the study
does not include the cost of climate inaction. In other words,
doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing,
and those are absolutely are only two choices. You either
(07:54):
want a carbon tax, a ban on plastic straws or
plastic water bottle band a band on styrofoam, or you
are a climate denier if you don't agree with banning
plastic straws. If you don't agree with banning plastic water
bottles or styrofoam, you are a climate denier. Furthermore, since
(08:15):
climate change is purportedly the new World War two, if
you are not all in, you are allied with the
Axis forces. You are a Nazi and a denier. At
the same time, the Boston Herald is editorializing against the
carbon tax, and I think people are tired of being bullied.
(08:38):
The third story is the p s that is this
it ran in Where did this run? A vice website
called Vice Climate Despair is making people give up on life.
It's a piece and I folks, there's no doubt that
(09:00):
this is true. There are a few people who are
getting suicidally despondent over this. This is what the left
has been doing two millennials and young people for twenty
years on this or longer. In the summer of it
was literally heat that got to Meg Routan Walker, thirty
(09:23):
seven year old former teacher in Ontario. I think my
anxiety just reached a peak, she said. It felt like
there was nowhere to go. She had spoken to her
primary care doctor about anxiety, she had not sought help
with her mental health, though suddenly she was contemplating self harm.
Though I I don't think I would have hurt myself.
(09:46):
I I didn't know how to live with the fear
of the apocalypse. My son was home with me, and
I had to call my friend over to watch him
because I couldn't even look at it without breaking down.
She eventually checked herself into an overnight mental health facility.
Many people are suffering from what could be called climate despair,
(10:08):
since that climate change is an unstoppable force that will
render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime feudal.
As David Wallace Wells noted in his bestseller The uninhabitable
earth for most to perceive an already unfolding climate crisis
and into it a more complete metamorphosis of the world become.
(10:30):
The vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from
perennial eschological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the
Book of Revelation. Climate despair has been a phrase used
at least as far back as Eric Pooley's book The
Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to
(10:54):
Save the Earth. It's been in wide circulation for maybe
as little as two years. Whatever you of it, this
is undeniably a real condition. If not one with a
set of formal diagnostic criteria, it may reach that status.
It took decades for burnout to be declared an official
occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. It's impossible to
(11:17):
know how many people have experienced climate despair as a
mental health crisis. But despair is all around us in
our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit
of climate news. In the health crisis, But despair is
all around us. Pitch black memes and jokes about human extinction,
even in works of philosophy and literature, there is now
(11:37):
a fringe, a group of scientists and writers who not
only take our imminent doom as an article of faith,
but they seem to welcome it. Climate despair goes far
beyond a reasonable concern that a warming planet will make
life difficult and force humanity to make charge our hard choices. Anyway,
it goes on, and it gets worse, and and it
(12:00):
sites a sixteen year old tattooed, nose ringed teenager as
one of the leading authorities on protesting all who are
creating climate change, makes a hero out of her in
in this story. Her name is greta Thunberg, sixteen year
(12:23):
old Swedish climate activist who led the recent worldwide school
strikes set in her ted talk that knowing about climate
change was hell on her psych when I was when
I was eleven, I became ill. I fell into depression.
I stopped talking, I stopped eating. In two months, I
lost I lost ten kilos of weight. She would later
(12:46):
be told that she had Asperger's o c D and
was selectively mute. Then she came out of her despair
and found a voice when she decided to strike, refusing
to go to school until the world demonstrate did that
it was getting its crap together, Only they don't say
crap in the story. This, this bunch of leftists has
(13:10):
literally destroyed the mental health of I would I'd be
afraid to guess how many millions of young people have
been driven to serious mental illness because of this bogus, fallacious, absurd, ridiculous.
(13:33):
It's not helped when Prince Charles comes out and says
we've only got eighteen months or humanity goes extinct. They
say Trump's a nutt
Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelly. Great to have you on
the program. Hello Rush, Hey, Um yeah, Shelly from Charlottesville, Virginia.
I'm just wondering, Rush, I've been around for about over
six decades saying a lot of politics either way. God's
(00:23):
are a lot of presidents, had a lot of I'm Republicans,
but I've had a lot of Democratic friends. Um, where
did these crazy super mental cases come from? I mean,
it's like they just come out of the woodwork one
day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff
starts happening. When did that happen? And and and where
(00:44):
did they come from? Well, you know, I'm actually glad
you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this
reaction that you're having within three months of Obama being inaugurated.
All through the Bush ears, I mean, we saw radical
leftists out there, the anti war people, but it was
primarily in the media. Uh. And I mean during the
(01:07):
Bush with George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was
a joke running in two thousand four, never really seriously
a contender. Um Our problems then was that that Bush
was not reacting to the media that the destruction the
attempts to sabotage his regime in the wars and and
(01:30):
all this. Then Obama gets elected. All of a sudden
it hit me the same way you have just described
to here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half
of this country mainstream radical left. I said, where did
these people come from? Where has this been? I had
to conclude that I knew the answer that they had
been lurking out there all along. Where they came from
(01:52):
as the American education system primarily. There are other avenues
pop culture, but the American education system and the Democrat
Party or primarily it. And if I wanted to even
get more specific, I could, because a lot of this
(02:14):
radical leftism that you're talking about, Tyler millennials is cultural
as well, and I think with Obama's election somehow it
just it's surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction
you did. And for a while I was telling myself
(02:34):
that it can't be mainstream. There aren't enough. We can't
have lost this ground. Ian. We know these people have
always been there, but they've always been considered to be
a really really small minority troublemaking and loud, violent, dangerous
public protest. This kind of thing. But to me, it
(02:56):
did seem like the election of Obama just brought a
bunch of people out from hiding from behind the woodwork.
And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many
of these people were young millennials. So that to me
has to be the education system. And I think you're
(03:22):
probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.
I actually believe that one of the primary, one of
the main issues that has led to this is the
radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that
(03:47):
snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that
shows it's not important to ten percent of the country.
Nobody was believing it. The millennial explosion after Obama's inauguration
featured a lot of radical liberalism, but climate change I
think was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination
(04:13):
that was being used. And look, it goes back even
to Ted Turner's Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet
as Superpower are a superhero trying to destroy all corporations
because they're destroying the planet. And in anticipation of this
(04:34):
subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One
of them, you know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince
Charles has got to be well. It is a nice guy,
it does a lot for charity, but the guy is
a loon. And you would be too. If you were
(04:54):
born to be the future king and here you are
s and your mother has no intention of getting out
of the way and handing it to you. May die
before you become king. You'd have to do something to
make your life meaningful to I mean, imagine the last
fifty years thinking you're gonna be king, and not the
last five thinking by the time I'm king, I won't
(05:14):
even know I'm king. You're gonna put me in a home. Well,
Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that
thinks climate change is going to destroy us. And one
year he will say we've got two days. The next
year he'll say we've got a reprieve. We've got about
thirty years now. Well, now he's back. The Prince of
Wales has warned global leaders that if we don't tackle
(05:39):
climate change in the next year and a half, the
human race will go extinct. He made these comments in
a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from throughout
the Commonwealth. He said, I am firmly of the view
that the next eighteen month will decide our ability to
(06:01):
keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature
to the equilibrium we need for our survival. In two
thousand and fifteen, Prince Charles gave the world thirty five years.
Alexandria Cortez says, we have twelve years. But then when
(06:25):
people actually acted on that, well, you know, it's a generality.
It's a it's a ballpark. How many times in all
of these recent years have we've been told we've got
ten years, We've got twelve years, we've got five years,
we've got fifty years. We don't have any time. We're
beyond our ability to do anything about it. These people
(06:46):
are all over the ballpark now, Prince Charles in an
official speech eighteen months The scary thing is, I can
show you mass numbers of nils who believe it takes
me to my second story. There are actually three. This
(07:10):
is the Boston Herald and Editorial yesterday. Carbon emissions are
soon to become the latest portal the state of Massachusetts
uses to reach the wallet of Massachusetts taxpayers. A bill
is gaming Momentum on Beacon Hill that would place a
fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels. Executive director
(07:34):
Michael Green of Climate Exchange, a nonprofit of course with
a mission to fight climate change, counter that the study
does not include the cost of climate inaction. In other words,
doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing,
and those are absolutely are only two choices. You either
(07:54):
want a carbon tax, a ban on plastic straws or
plastic water bottle band a band on styrofoam, or you
are a climate denier if you don't agree with banning
plastic straws. If you don't agree with banning plastic water
bottles or styrofoam, you are a climate denier. Furthermore, since
(08:15):
climate change is purportedly the new World War two, if
you are not all in, you are allied with the
Axis forces. You are a Nazi and a denier. At
the same time, the Boston Herald is editorializing against the
carbon tax, and I think people are tired of being bullied.
(08:38):
The third story is the p s that is this
it ran in Where did this run? A vice website
called Vice Climate Despair is making people give up on life.
It's a piece and I folks, there's no doubt that
(09:00):
this is true. There are a few people who are
getting suicidally despondent over this. This is what the left
has been doing two millennials and young people for twenty
years on this or longer. In the summer of it
was literally heat that got to Meg Routan Walker, thirty
(09:23):
seven year old former teacher in Ontario. I think my
anxiety just reached a peak, she said. It felt like
there was nowhere to go. She had spoken to her
primary care doctor about anxiety, she had not sought help
with her mental health, though suddenly she was contemplating self harm.
Though I I don't think I would have hurt myself.
(09:46):
I I didn't know how to live with the fear
of the apocalypse. My son was home with me, and
I had to call my friend over to watch him
because I couldn't even look at it without breaking down.
She eventually checked herself into an overnight mental health facility.
Many people are suffering from what could be called climate despair,
(10:08):
since that climate change is an unstoppable force that will
render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime feudal.
As David Wallace Wells noted in his bestseller The uninhabitable
earth for most to perceive an already unfolding climate crisis
and into it a more complete metamorphosis of the world become.
(10:30):
The vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from
perennial eschological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the
Book of Revelation. Climate despair has been a phrase used
at least as far back as Eric Pooley's book The
Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to
(10:54):
Save the Earth. It's been in wide circulation for maybe
as little as two years. Whatever you of it, this
is undeniably a real condition. If not one with a
set of formal diagnostic criteria, it may reach that status.
It took decades for burnout to be declared an official
occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. It's impossible to
(11:17):
know how many people have experienced climate despair as a
mental health crisis. But despair is all around us in
our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit
of climate news. In the health crisis, But despair is
all around us. Pitch black memes and jokes about human extinction,
even in works of philosophy and literature, there is now
(11:37):
a fringe, a group of scientists and writers who not
only take our imminent doom as an article of faith,
but they seem to welcome it. Climate despair goes far
beyond a reasonable concern that a warming planet will make
life difficult and force humanity to make charge our hard choices. Anyway,
it goes on, and it gets worse, and and it
(12:00):
sites a sixteen year old tattooed, nose ringed teenager as
one of the leading authorities on protesting all who are
creating climate change, makes a hero out of her in
in this story. Her name is greta Thunberg, sixteen year
(12:23):
old Swedish climate activist who led the recent worldwide school
strikes set in her ted talk that knowing about climate
change was hell on her psych when I was when
I was eleven, I became ill. I fell into depression.
I stopped talking, I stopped eating. In two months, I
lost I lost ten kilos of weight. She would later
(12:46):
be told that she had Asperger's o c D and
was selectively mute. Then she came out of her despair
and found a voice when she decided to strike, refusing
to go to school until the world demonstrate did that
it was getting its crap together, Only they don't say
crap in the story. This, this bunch of leftists has
(13:10):
literally destroyed the mental health of I would I'd be
afraid to guess how many millions of young people have
been driven to serious mental illness because of this bogus, fallacious, absurd, ridiculous.
(13:33):
It's not helped when Prince Charles comes out and says
we've only got eighteen months or humanity goes extinct. They
say Trump's a nutt
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