Thaddeus Gadfly

Rush Limbaugh recently spoke: “The left is the enemy of freedom and liberty in this country and they don’t need to be worked with.”

Rush said this in response to something McCain said, the message of which was essentially that if he is elected president, he does not see Democrats as the enemy and that he will work with them.

First off, I’m not voting for McCain, but I will say this about McCain, he is, by far, a better man than Rush Limbaugh. Rush, and others like him (such as Mike Savage), are hatemongers. Hatemongers live in a strange world with an “us against them” mentality, a seige mentality, and such mentalities  spring from the same well that other hate groups spring from. Rush and his ilk spends his days and nights promulgating only one idea, the left is bad, and all of our world’s ills come from leftist idealogy.

Let me ask Rush this question: Do you, Mr. Limbaugh, support anarchy?

Yes or no? If you answer “yes”, it would be safe to label you as a nutjob. If you answer “no”, if I were to use the same bizarre logic you apply to the left, you are “against freedom and democracy”.

How many Republicans voted against the minimum wage? Why? This is seen as an affront on the “liberty” of business to pay what they see fit to pay. This is but one small example in a litany of examples I could think of.

Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, sometimes, in the interest of social justice and common decency, lefties like myself support an idea which infringes on the freedom of one group, it’s called “regulation”. Republicans hate regulation. Let big Pharma gouge the public, let the oil companies gouge the public, let corporations pollute our rivers, air, and oceans and destroy natural habitats, all in the name of “freedom”, right?

Total freedom is anarchy. Total absense of freedom is slavery. The most ethical place to be is in the center, moderated freedom to correct the natural deficiencies in the system and human chararacter, and the center is where you will NEVER find a Republican, but you will OFTEN find a Democrat.

I do not hate Republicans, and my attitude towards them is the same as McCains healthy attitude towards Democrats. I only hate HATE, which is the only thing on earth worthy of that attitude.

Rush, you might think you are hot stuff because you have a national forum, but lesser men than you have a national forum, and it doesn’t mean much, it just means there are a lot of people who are like minded. Numbers don’t prove a thing, Hitler had a large following, as well (no, I did not compare you to Hitler).

Fortunately for Democracy, the people close to the center are often the key voters who determine who wins the elections. But, on the other hand, sometimes they can be hoodwinked. That being said, Democracy will never elect someone like Mike Savage, or Rush Limbaugh, both of whom appeal to the extreme right in the country. Yes, there are whackos on the left, just as there are buffoons on the right. You won’t find them in the center, and, as Jimmy Carter once spoke, “There are no road apples in the center of the road”.