Today's Worst Person Of The Day is Rush Limbaugh, who has managed to once again say something utterly stupid on his own radio show. This one was so stupid however, that I thought Alex Jones had accidentally been substituted for him on his radio show.
He was talking about as USA Today op-ed on America's greatness myths. Society is built upon so many myths and falacies, it's actually shocking that it functions as well as it does. Well, apparently, Rush doesn't like that idea so he came up with an idea of his own.
"This -- none of this could be happening of its own. It couldn't -- this is not happening because a majority of the American people want this. That’s what makes this so outrageous. We are being ruled and governed here by a really small minority who are using the power of fear and intimidation and economic destruction — that is key. Once you take people’s money away from them, you own them. Once you take people’s ability to earn a living and you become the provider, you own them. That’s the first thing they did, was shut down this nation’s economy. Now they’re trying to get it shut down again under bogus COVID-19 numbers... ...But at the end of the day, everybody needed America. Every nation on Earth’s economy needs America. But our economy has been shut down. We got 44 million people out of work. We’ve got in Chicago alone 4,400 businesses which have been shut down and are said never to reopen again. And that’s one city. In Rome and throughout Italy, they’re losing $115 million a day via tourism. There isn’t any. They miss the United States. The world depends on it. This is another thing that is by design in all of this. You take out the United States of America and you take out the United States economy, and you have set up your precious globalism and world government because you are creating worldwide poverty and thus worldwide need. And when you, the global government or whoever you are, become the provider to those in need, guess who you own? But none of this could be happening if it weren’t for the fact that the United States is under assault and being taken down on the basis of a pack of lies. That our great history is nothing but a bunch of lies, that our history is nothing but a bunch of myths. How in the world can anyone with any kind of intellect at all look at the United States, see its role that it played in the establishment of human liberty and freedom, and want no part of it? Well, obviously people to whom human liberty and freedom are a problem. To communists and socialists, human liberty and freedom, free choice, that’s a problem. The state becomes the repository of all freedom. The state determines who can do what, when, where, why. The state determines who has what. The state determines who gets what.
But how in the world can this -- I ask myself how in the world can otherwise intellectually qualified people not value the concept of individual liberty and freedom? And yet people who are leading this anti-American movement are of exactly that frame of mind, that somehow individual liberty and freedom pose the threat, pose the problem to the ongoing future."
That's just a small sample of a over 10 minute rant that spews out of the consciousness that is Rush Limbaugh. Media Matters has the entire transcript if you want to read it, and the video of the rant if you want to hear and see it.
The main thing wrong with it is that it is the very embodiment of the myths that the writer was talking about. The idea that somehow America is better than any other country in the world. Where as in fact it's just one of over 200 countries and territories in the world today. It's not even the largest by population. Both India and China are way ahead on that count. There's nothing inherently superior about the United States, just like there's nothing inherently superior about the UK, or any other country in the world. The conflation of the old Russian "Communist" model with socialism is quite deliberate. Socialism isn't about controling distribution of goods. It's about making sure those goods reach market in a condition that isn't going to kill the consumer, even accidentally. It's about making sure the water is clean, the food isn't going to kill you, the services are at a fair price. It's all about all that and more. It's got nothing to do with controlling everything, despite what the right wants you to believe.
Rush Limbaugh, The Worst Person Of The Day.
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