In a way, I do wish Rush would strongly consider evacuating the US. It's a legal/beaurocratic minefield out here. He would not feel right talking about US politics if he did, I suppose.
But to me, for a statesman to be so hated he's driven into exhile, that only adds to his stature. I can't imagine how much time is taken up in his life with all the beaurocratic BS out here. How much more time would he have to focus on politics if he left?
I often wish we could return to the freedoms we had in years past. When I was a kid, nothing was thought unusual when I rowed my boat to the pier in the Village and walked into a store to redeem coke bottles for pennies- while wearing my Mom's Colt Woodsman on my belt. ( rattlesnakes, you know, on the beach )
If I tried that now, there'd be a SWAT team called on me. And the Villagers & tourists would have an attack of the vapors.
We really have let a lot of our freedoms slip away.
Rush can, at least, afford the best lawyers & accountants to fight for him-- I'll spare you the details, but when we were involved in a running battle with the IRS a few years ago, it wasn't the hired guns, but my wife who got it settled. Combination of intelligence and charisma worked when reams of arguments on paper didn't.
I didn't hear all of Rush's show yesterday, but enough to get the drift, and I don't blame him for being fed up, personally and professionaly.
One reason I am no longer in business is the endless, never fully resolved battles with bureaucrats, regulators, and lawyers. You just get fed up after a while.
And on the political scene, when I vote for someone, I do expect them to stand for me in battle- not run away or be silent. The runaway Judiciary ( Supreme Court's juvenille Death Penalty case, Terri, etc. ) and uncontroled illegal aliens are going to be the death of this country if we aren't careful.
I want representatives who stand for something besides their own miserable careers.