I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-pedaling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence....
....Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.
A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.
You'll notice that this isn't the full article, as the remainder is Limbaugh blaming Clinton for the attack in Oaklahoma city rather than the hyperventilation of the right-wing radio.
For starters, I can see exactly how someone like Rush Limbaugh would claim to "love" their country. Not only is it part of their job description, that they have to be so hyper-patriotic that it borders on conservative pornography, but they stand to make a great deal of money based on how much flag-sucking they do.
The one aspect of this that I can't stomach though is how conservatives only love their country when it is perceived to be in danger from some hidden force. This isn't to say that they won't contribute to their communities, but it's the aspect of how conservatives determine who and what needs assistance. To put it more bluntly, conservatives only love certain aspects of America. They will often fight for their community and specific people within it, but if they don't "see" something as in need, they don't feel that it concerns them. It's in this light that we see conservatives as the true "elitists", those that are more than willing to say who is and who isn't a "real" American and where "real" America actually is. It would be interesting to see how a conservative would draw a map of the US.
And let it not be mistaken, money and love of country - in the conservative mind - are so inextricably linked that it's quite disgusting.
One of the pillars of conservative ideology is that people that have "worked hard" for their money deserve to keep it. And while there is a great deal of nuance to a statement like that, one can't but wonder how a person like Rush Limbaugh is more deserving to earn such a ridiculous amount versus a man/woman that went to college and studied to become an archaeologist or even then man/woman that went to trade school to be an auto mechanic. What is Rush actually contributing to American society that makes him more "deserving" than anyone else?
I make that point in order to make another. The amount of money that one makes more often then not colors your viewpoint of American life. This isn't to say that everyone in every income class is going to be displeased with what they make - no everyone is motivated by greed - but when I and many people look at what I do for a living, I find myself asking the question of how this is in anyway "fair"? By that, I mean that it seems rather odd that someone like Rush can make millions per year simply by being inflammatory, derogatory, and a patent liar in many instances while people like construction workers, miners, or even our military will never be able to dream of touching such an amount in our lifetime. Certainly, one can argue that it's a matter of "choice", but has it come to the point in America where we have to "choose" based on the rate of pay instead of what we have a passion to do?
The end result of all of this is that conservatives in the middle class, those that work the difficult an dangerous jobs, actually buy into Limbaugh's canted and ideological twisted view of American. They do this at their own peril. They do this because they have lost sight of what it truly means to love your country. This is because they have lost the ability - if they ever had it - to see this country for what it really is and who has really built it. The worst part of all of this is that they are letting Rush Limbaugh tell them what the definition of "love" is and how others that don't think and act as he does lack this passion for their nation. And this all goes back to the money aspect. They see the millions that Limbaugh makes and they are tricked into believing that if someone makes that amount of money for such a simple task as talking on the radio, then they must love their country more than anyone.
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