I stopped paying much attention to Rush a long time ago. He’s focused on business and making money and he does a show that furthers those goals. Being a fake revolutionary can be profitable. Being a real revolutionary is risky. Rush is not actually going to challenge the Deep State.
I lost a lot of interest when he started taking it easy on BJ Clinton a long time ago. I’ll still catch a few minutes here and there around lunchtime if nothing else interesting is on. I prefer him over Savage and Beck, probably in that order, haha.
these were the real revolutionaries:
http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/mckstmerreg.htm#baptists
Baptists, the Regulators and Capt. Benjamin Merrill
“The Regulation movements instead of being a lawless aggregation seeking to overthrow the State government as was claimed was only the crystallization of honest patriotic sentiment seeking by concert of action to secure to themselves and people at large their just rights against the usurpation of official tyranny and corruption which so sorely oppressed them. Many of these officials were foreigners who were political favorites of the Crown and had come over to achieve a fortune, and, being corrupt at hearts they persistently oppressed the people to that end. Mr. Caruthers in his Life of Caldwell says in regard to the causes which led up to the organization of the Regulators and the battle of Alamance that “The people were defrauded by the clerks of the courts, by the recorders of deeds, by entry-takers, by surveyors and by lawyers: every man demanding twice or three times his legal fee.” It is no wonder that the people sought a reformation in the management of public-affairs. The sheriff were sometimes very insulting as well as exacting. Caruthers, in Revolutionary Incidents first series, gives an illustration.
When the sheriff was going over the country distraining and selling the property of every man who did not instantly pay the amount of tax demanded accompanied too by his deputies and perhaps some others, well armed and attending him as a life-guard he came to the house of a poor man who was not at home; but as if determined not to be wholly disappointed in his object, and not finding anything else, or not enough of anything else to satisfy his demands, he took off his wife’s dress which she had on at the time and which she had made with her own hands, sold it under the hammer for her husband’s tax; and then; giving her a box or slap with his hand., told her to go and make her another.
Just such acts as this with many others equally outrageous; caused the people to organize. The same author says:
“It does not appear on the pages of history that the people of North Carolina were disposed to rebel, without a cause, against the authority of those who were properly authorized to administer the laws, or that they ever refused to pay whatever taxes might be necessary for the support of the government; but they were at all times ready, when they had the powers to resist oppression or flagrant encroachments on their rights.”
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I had thought MAYBE, just maybe, the tea party might evolve into something like the regulators IF needed- but nope- no such luck
Kind of makes you wonder if Rush is a safety valve. He says a lot of stuff that makes sense to conservatives, and makes them feel heard, but it goes nowhere. “Well, maybe Rush will address my concerns on a future show, I’ll get back to work to pay my bills”, is probably a common thought. Trump makes a lot of us feel heard, and that something could actually get fixed. I hope the deep state loses sleep over that.