Liberty and Reality vs. Political Utopia

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What do Political Correctness, the Liberal Agenda, and the land of The Giver have in Common?

Rush Limbaugh

Utopia, and Everyone the same

RUSH:  The Giver.  No, I’ve not seen it.

CALLER:  Great movie.  And pretty much the whole idea of the movie was, what if everything was the same, everybody was equal, everybody was the same.  And my point is pretty much it’s an unrealistic idea to think that there’s never gonna be racism, that there’s always gonna be income inequality.  There’s always gonna be somebody who’s a racist.  There’s always gonna be somebody who makes more money than you. No matter how hard the world tries, it’s never gonna be fixed.  It’s just unrealistic.

RUSH:  Well, that is true, but that won’t carry any weight with anybody. I know you didn’t mean it this way, but some people could interpret that as saying it’s pointless to even try since it’s impossible to achieve, and then that would just fuel the grievance industry even more.  What you say is totally correct.  It’s impossible to make everybody the same.  But that’s what liberalism strives to do.  Equality of outcome.  And the only way you can even get close to that is by making people as poor as you can or as miserable. 

You cannot give enough money away to make everybody rich, but you can give just enough away to a lot of people to make them poor or miserable.  And in liberalism, equality is what counts.  But they want credit for their good intentions, you see.  This is the dirty little secret that few people really glom onto.  Every liberal program, from Lyndon Johnson forward, has been an abject failure in terms of achieving its desired end result. 

The Giver

“A community in North America has lived in tranquility without the existence of emotions or color, as these would produce conflicts. The citizens have also had their memories wiped.”

The hero of the movie is an 18-year-old who gets chosen to be the community’s receiver of memories.  He enters into training with an old man called The Giver, hence the title of the movie.  And from The Giver, this 18-year-old named Jonas learns all about pain and sadness and war and all the unhappy truths of the real world.  And 18-year-old Jonas quickly realizes that his community is fake; that a utopia is fake; that it isn’t possible.  This was the point of our caller who called our attention to the movie.

If there’s one thing, and it’s hard to pick one thing, but if there were one thing you could say that’s universally true about liberals — and Obama qualifies here — they all believe in the perfection of man.  And therefore they all believe in the imperfection, and they hate it, and they don’t like it, and they think that it’s bad and wrong.  So this never-ending quest for perfection, which is why they’re never happy, which is why no matter what they get, it’s never enough, which is why no matter how many cultural or political victories they get, it’s never enough.

Every problem that liberals solve usually is just the beginning of a whole set of new problems.  Nothing ever is permanent.  Nothing ever gets done. Nothing ever really gets solved, and it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle or circle which ends in a daily dose of reality that they can’t accept. So they’re constantly enraged to one degree or another, or depressed to one degree or another, or unhappy to one degree or another, and constantly trying to explain it all away by being victims of mythical, invisible forces that are mistreating them.

And they utilize their political power to try to redress all these grievances and get even with people, and it becomes nothing more than a hate-driven ideology.

RUSH:  White comedian Paul Shanklin, a member of our independent contractor staff here at the EIB Network said, “Hey, I saw the movie The Giver,” and he said “it’s a great movie.  The best lesson from the movie is watching how vicious the utopian Regime gets when challenged with reality.”