Posted on 07/06/2017 12:29:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, I want to correct something you said toward the end of the previous hour. I said that Trump is the first president I actually quoted Roger Kimball at PJ Media saying that Trump with this speech in Poland today, stands a good chance of going down in history as one of Americas great presidents. And he makes the point that what Trump said today, in the specific way Trump said it, is the first time its been said by an American president since Ronald Reagan. Now, I think that needs a little qualification, because George W. Bush was profoundly strong in the idea that America represents the solution to the worlds problem as opposed to the popular belief around the world (in worldwide leftist circles) that America is the problem.
Bush did not give short shrift to the notion of American greatness, and he spoke of it constantly and the worldwide need for American leadership. Anyway, Kimballs referring to here is Trumps specific reference to Western civilization as a culture and how it is that and not economic gains solely that have defined the worlds greatest nation, the singular culture that was because it isnt anymore; this is the thing the singular culture that was America. When immigrants came to this country, they were fleeing a lot of things.
They were fleeing what every immigrant flees: bondage, tyranny, repression, poverty, and all those other things associated. What they wanted to become was Americans. Part and parcel of that was freedom, of course, economic liberty. They wanted to become Americans. They did not want to come to America and turn America into the nation they left. Because what was happening in America was unique. There was no other place in the world like it, and they wanted to be part of it, and they lined up and they came in droves.
They tried to get here in all manner of ways, mostly legal. Not all of them were granted entry, and not all of them ended up becoming citizens. But to this day that influx and that desire remains. What has changed is the dissolution, the weakening of the distinct American culture that was the magnet for so many immigrants in the past. That distinct American culture has been under assault. I really trace it back. You know, its been under assault since the founding. I mean, there have been people that oppose the founding of this country back in the founding days.
But I really do think that the focus of the anti-Americanism that we are dealing with today gave birth or was birthed in the sixties. Now, I know we had communists throughout the twentieth century, and we had (sigh) communist infiltration of our institutions, like universities and schools and entertainment. But the sixties is where it coalesced. Its where it codified and became an official movement which captured generations of people, not just a few stragglers here and there that would then someday be investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
So its really from the sixties onward that this current onslaught against this highly developed American culture has been waged. And its been successful. And Ive always claimed from the early days of this program that at its roots you know, aside from the overthrow of the concept of America, aside from the socialist or communist desires and the ideology behind the protest movement of sixties. The cultural aspect contained a fervent need and desire, and that was to redefine what was normal and Ive been making this claim since this program began.
When people would call here and ask me to explain this particular movement in the left or that, I would say, What youre seeing is a bunch of people seeking to have normalcy or normality redefined so that it includes them. It was a very strategic movement because it portrayed the American cultural as racist, as bigoted, as homophobic, as discriminatory, and all of this was practiced and studied. This was a calculated assault on American culture by taking what was the vast majority of the thinking and the philosophy and the belief system of our culture and assaulting it.
This is where this entire notion of inclusiveness and diversity was actually born, was back in the sixties. And it has grown and metastasized, and it sprouted off into other forms and other movements so that there are now redundancies. This idea that the United States was not diverse is absurd. The idea that American greatness is found in its diversity is literally absurd. It is intellectually absurd. It has nothing to do with Americas greatness. Inclusion, diversity have literally nothing to do with it. And yet you go talk to your average Millennial today, youll find that those are buzzwords. Inclusiveness.
We must have inclusiveness, and all these other buzzword terms that are bandied about. Diversity. They are the hallmarks. Sustainability. They are the hallmarks, and all of these thoughts, these philosophies are actually aimed at destroying what was the most inclusive country on the face of the earth, what was the most open and free country on the face of the earth. But intensely since the sixties, the entire notion of the United States of America has been under fevered assault. Well, I was glad to see today when I was doing my show prep I ran into this column by Roger Kimball at PJ Media in which he echoes the idea that one of the things happening today to tear down this country is this quest to redefine what he calls normality.
I call it normalcy. But heres what he says about it. But whatever happened to normality? The Left has been on a campaign to ruin normality since the 1960s. Their dearest wish was to destroy and hollow out and ridicule the bourgeois virtues of good manners and decorum even to utter those words sounds odd and today sound odd. Good manners is laughed at and made fun of. Decorum? Thats for nerds and the old fashioned. Thats for old fogies. Even to utter the words good manners and decorum sounds odd.
so successful has their battle against the language of traditional manners and morals been. Thats a fundamental aspect of this too. When you are trying to redefine normalcy so that it includes you who are these people? Anybody that didnt like to be judged, therefore they didnt like to be subject to laws. They didnt like to be subjected to religious beliefs. They didnt like to be subjected to morality, because all of those areas contained there must be judgments. And they didnt want to be judged.
They didnt want to be found wanting. They didnt want to be found odd. They didnt want to be found abnormal. And so they began to portray the virtues of decorum and manners and morals and religion as discriminatory, as bigoted, as exclusionary. And they began to attack the very glue that held together this distinct American culture with the idea of blowing it up.
Progressives long ago declared war on the normal, which, again, I have been pointing out since the late eighties. Now progressives are upset because someone they dislike Donald Trump has appeared wielding real power in ways they find abnormal? And this is the great irony. They think Trump is now exactly what we thought of them: oddballs, vulgar, crass, unappreciative, insincere, arrogant, bombastic, all these things that we thought of them and they loved it, now thats what they think of Trump.
[Kimball quoting David Marcus The Federalist] These are the same people, Marcus notes, who over the past few years have insisted that five-year-old boys becoming five-year-old girls is normal. They tell us that a guaranteed basic income and running for president as a Socialist is normal. Forcing Catholic hospitals to offer birth control, undocumented immigrants voting in our elections, and abolishing the police, these are the people that are calling Trump abnormal. These are the people saying that Trump is an affront to their sensibilities.
That list could be very easily extended. The irony, Marcus notes, is suffocating. The Left stood by and applauded as Barack Obama rode roughshod over the Constitution, refusing to enforce laws of which he disapproved, granting waivers to groups he favored, employing the coercive power of the state to reward his friends and punish his enemies. All that was just fine. But suddenly, on January 20, the left rediscovered the Constitution, limits to executive authority, and the value of due process and precedent. It would be merely comical if it were not so patently cynical.
Just so, the Left spent the last few decades trashing traditional American values. A decent, gentlemanly figure like Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush simply earned their contempt. But Trump is different. He is just as indifferent to traditional niceties as they are. Hence their hysteria. And their fear. George W. Bush would seldom respond to Left-wing provocations, never in kind.
Trump does, regularly, and he pays them back in their own coin, almost. I say almost in tribute to Trumps cleverness. Gertrude Stein once advised the aspiring avant-garde artist to demonstrate that he knew just how far to go in going too far. This Trump has done. The people who hate him prance about with a likeness of his bloody severed head: he merely Tweets about Mikas oozing wounds following cosmetic surgery.
Anti-Trumpers destroy property, bash people over the head with metal bicycle locks, and attempt to assassinate the congressional leadership. Trump releases a campy wrestling video making fun of CNN. His followers love it. His detractors hate it and think he is a big vulgarian.
Now, you want some evidence of this? How many of you grew up reading The Sporting News? Well, I know you didnt, Dawn. Basically it was a baseball magazine. Yeah, yeah. It was published in St. Louis by the Spink family, C. C. Johnson Spink, C. C. Edward Spink, Z. Z. C. Johnson Spink, and a whole bunch of other Spinks. And it was for the longest time a baseball Bible. It still exists, but its nowhere near what it used to be.
There now is an LGBT activist writer for The Sporting News who is now demanding that Major League Baseball end its toxic masculinity. This is not The Sporting News that you and I grew up with. An attack on the toxic masculinity of baseball.
The piece also features plaudits for baseball for now doing LGBT night at the ballpark, but then they criticize Major League Baseball teams for having Christian night at the ballpark. That should be banned, Christian night, white night, whatever at the ballpark should be banned. That should not be allowed to happen.
The masculinity that exists in American sports needs to be stopped and stamped out. Its leading to rape. Its absurd. And these publications are now being run by people who think this way and hire people who think this way, who then continue this never ending assault on what used to be the bedrocks of what we call the American culture.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Now, I got an interesting couple of emails during the break, and it was some people who disagree with me in my little monologue there about normalcy. One of the points I was making to go back to the beginning of the show, was on what I consider the modern onslaught against normalcy, which was pegged to the 1960s.
I was pointing out that the people leading the charge did not think they fit within the dominant American culture and so they wanted to upend it and redefine what was normal so that they would be considered normal. In their own minds, they were not, and rather than adapt, they got offended and angry and tried to blow up the foundations of that culture so that normal would be transferred to them. So people disagreeing with me about this said, Who are you to say that the American culture from the founding was great?
Who are you to say that was the best? Who are you to say that, because it was exclusionary! It told certain people they couldnt do this and that. The American culture didnt do that. Western civilization did that from the beginning of time. But heres the thing. If you disagree, let me just give you a little test. Have you seen the story about the orgy the gay orgy at the Vatican? (interruption) OMG is right.
You think something like this would have happened with Pope John Paul II? Well, it didnt. You dont have to ask could it or would it, because it didnt. It happened under Pope Francis. But let me get the specifics here, because some of the actual details of this are (Ooh, and here is this Mark Penn piece. Yeah, Ive gotta remember to get to that as I go through.) Here it is: Drug-Fueled Gay Orgy at the Vatican. But not just anywhere at the Vatican.
Vatican police broke up a gay orgy at the home of the secretary to one of Pope Francis key bishops, key cardinals, key advisers. The flat, the apartment, the condo, whatever you want to call it, belonged to are you ready for this? the Vaticans Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, or the Holy Office. This orgy took place at the office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Translated, this is where Catholicism is defined and promulgated and spread and explained.
It was that location that was specifically targeted for this drug-fueled gay orgy, as its reported. Reports in Italy claim the occupant of the apartment is allegedly the secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a key aide to the 80-year-old Pope. Coccopalmerio heads the Pontifical Council for Legislative texts and was said to have once recommended his secretary for a promotion to bishop, the secretary who led the orgy.
The claims about the police raid last month were made in the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. The flat involved is a short distance from the Vatican itself. According to the paper, neighbours became suspicious before complaining about irregular behaviour of those coming and going at the flat.
See, were not allowed to say that. Who are you to say what is irregular? Who are you to say, Italian newspaper, that a drug-fueled gay orgy is irregular behavior? Who are you? You cant say that. And thats what we have been experiencing in America. You go out and you call things like this irregular or abnormal behavior, and they are going to come for you. So this Italian newspaper, Im sure, is going to be targeted. How dare they be judgmental and call a drug-fueled gay orgy irregular behavior.
And I had some emails during the break accusing me of similar things. So there are questions (interruption) Straighten what out? No, when I made the point that there was a normalcy and that people who think they didnt fit tried to overthrow it and reconstitute it, our culture, so that they would be considered normal. Ive often thought the counterculture and the anti-Western civ people have simply been on a quest to have themselves considered normal, because theyve always thought that they were looked at as abnormal or irregular.
And here it is, in this Italian newspaper story, a drug-fueled gay orgy in the Vatican is considered irregular behavior, but not to them. Who are you to say? their reaction is. No. All I said was that the objective here, in overthrowing the dominant American culture, the objective has been to redefine people as normal because theyve been saying, You dont get to define us. You dont get to say whats normal and abnormal. You dont get to define right and wrong. You dont get to define morality. Who are you? You dont get sit in judgment.
And thats where religion and faith and morality come in. And they have to be destroyed, too, so that there are no standards, there are no active measurements that can be made to assess what is normal and therefore just and advisable. And yet you can take a look at well, you can just take a look at life, and you can look at paths that people take, and you can ask which one leads to happiness, contentment, economic security, and which paths dont.
And its not because somebody is decreeing it; its because what is is. And that reality is what fueled the counterculture opposition, the refusal to accept that and have that changed. Its been convoluted, but I have no doubt that thats what much of this quest started as. Its become far much more than that now.
Enjoyed Rush’s show today.
The problem with Bush (W) was that he was a member of a crime family. His idea of American “greatness” was bomb, bomb, bomb, and throw the borders open.
Nothing Bush said in speeches should be taken seriously.
I'm not reading beyond this.
George W Bush is a Globalist.
He has contempt for the things flyover country believe.
MLB did LGBT night?
Ballpark takes on a whole new meaning ..
Kirk's words from that essay may be appropriate here on this day:
"The patrimony of a civilization can be lost at the very moment of that civilizations material triumph. In any culture worthy of the name, men must be something better than the flies of a summer; generation must link with generation. Some men among us are doing whatever is in their power to preserve and reinvigorate our common heritage. This is not a work that can be accomplished through positive law or the creation of international commissions. Yet if a people forget the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods, the consequences soon will be felt in the laws and in international affairs. Without cultural community between America and Europe, there is little point in political alliance."
Thanks for the link. A great find of a great essay.
Coward
Who’s pitchin’?
On Fox All Star Panels few nights ago I heard Steve Hays, notable Never Trumper, say again and again and again that Trump retweeting the CNN GIF was not “normal” ... said to my wife: “this is operant conditioning at work” to try to eventual separate Trump from his base because he is simply not “normal”
In the arena of the left it is normal to be the minority and in the lead and not caring at all what the majority favors . Sounds a little undemocratic but that’s the only way I can explain it .
That’s why we have to get back to the second part of that “minority rights” concept: Minorities may have rights but majority rules.
Not to mention Leon Spinks, the black sheep of the family?
,,,,,,, majorities can only rule in a true democracy . The change from 0bama’s dictatorship and government rule through restrictive executive orders was not a democracy . Now that the left is losing elections and has become ineffective they need to make the cultural majority look unnatural or unnormal by their definition .
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