The Silent Majority is About to Explode

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | March 21, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: Here's a story from Fox News. This... See, I have a sense of things in this country. I believe there's a great silent majority. I think you're in it. The silent majority is made up of people who are not represented by the Democrat Party or the mainstream media.

The silent majority are the people who get up and go to work, try to play by the rules, try to do everything right according to their morality and sense of ethics and their sense of right and wrong. They get laughed at and made fun of for it in movies and books and TV shows and songs. They're consistently impugned. They're called old-fashioned, fuddy-duddies, hayseeds, unrealistic, what have you. But they're there, and it's a huge number. My impression, my gut instinct about the silent majority is it's about to explode. It's about had enough. A lot of small, incremental things have happened over 20 or 30 years.

But now with Obama, those small, incremental things becoming bigger and more impactful with each instance. And they carry with them close to a call to action. In the past, those incremental changes or deteriorations in our culture, in society, people said, "Oh, okay. We'll just chalk that up to another sign of deterioration," and you go about your life. Now these things that are happening are giving people in the silent majority great pause and they're saying, this isn't okay. They don't know quite what to do about it, but they are ready to explode, and this next story is the kind of thing that I'm talking about. It's from Fox News. It's about Stony Brook University in New York. And I will just read it to you as it's written, as it's published.

"New York’s Stony Brook University has decided to no longer cancel classes for major Christian and Jewish holidays in an effort to ensure that some religions aren’t given special treatment and to 'afford equal support and equal respect to students and faculty from all faiths.'" So Stony Brook University is no longer going to recognize major Christian and Jewish holidays because it might offend people who aren't Christian or Jewish. "Jewish students would be impacted on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Holy Week." No longer are classes gonna be canceled. You observe the holiday, you get no credit for showing up 'cause the classes are going on.

"Christian students would be impacted on Good Friday. The Christmas holiday is protected under a union contract and occurs when classes are traditionally not in session," anyway. So there won't be any change over the Christmas break because that's protected under a union contract. But if the unions didn't have a contract saying they weren't working over those two weeks, then I guess we're to assume here that classes would not be canceled for Christmas, either. "The university had considered allowing faculty to schedule exams on Saturday and Sunday -- a time when many students attend worship services.

"However, that decision was tabled after reaching a compromise with students. 'As a secular university, as a state-funded university our priority must be to maximize instructional opportunities for our students,' said Charles Robbins, vice provost for undergraduate education. 'First and foremost, it's important to note that while I respect everyone's concerns, the reality is it's a relatively small number of people who are upset.'" It's just the Christians and the Jews. He didn't say that. I'm just adding that. I'm illustrating. "[I]t's a relatively small number of people who are upset." I'm saying: Yeah, like it's just the Christians and the Jews.

"Robbins told Fox News the university's decision to stop cancelling classes for Christian and Jewish holidays offers 'equal protection under the regulations to everybody and no one is getting quote, unquote, special treatment.' Robbins, who has a background in social justice, said many religions, including the Muslims and Buddhists have never had their holidays officially recognized by the university," and that isn't right. "'Now all segments of our population will be equally recognized,' he said. 'It really is the American fair thing to do.'"

This is the kind of story that's going to cause an eruption in the silent majority. The silent majority, made up of Christians and Jews alike, are not doing anything to destroy this country -- they're not doing one thing to harm it -- and yet they're sitting around and watching the destruction take place all around 'em. And then they hear that because they are a majority, their very existence makes life unfair for others. So we're gonna take away your holiday and we're gonna take away your tradition. Except for Christmas because the unions have a deal there. "However, Stony Brook University's 24,100 undergraduate and graduate students are not as religiously diverse as the vice provost said.

"According to a report in The Jewish Week, 26% consider themselves Roman Catholic, 24% consider themselves other Christian, 8% are Muslim, 5% are Jewish, and 5% are Hindu. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, told Fox News that the university's board of trustees should conduct an investigation into the matter. 'The goal here is radical secularism being shoved down the throats of the people at Stony Brook,' he said." That's right, and it's coming from some of these "social justice" guys. So once and again, it's an attack on the people who make the country work. It's an attack on the traditions and institutions which have defined the greatness of this country.

It's an attack on people who aren't doing anything. These people are not destroying the country. They're not taking steps to pervert the culture. So call it what you want: Political correctness, censorship, fear, superiority, arrogance, what have you. Here you have a liberal who has majored in "social justice studies" mandating that classes will no longer be canceled for Christian and Jewish holidays 'cause it just isn't fair to the others. "A number of faculty and students are outraged over the decision." I should add that. "'You really have to choose between my faith and my school work and I don't want to be put in that position,' Aaron Gershoff told CBS News."

Well, they just put you in that position.

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[Jim Scott]

Rush is right about the fuming 'silent majority' that are abused by the political system. The sad fact is that both parties use it for power, not to serve the American people and that is not going to change any time soon.

With Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum our choices, we'll probably vote for the slightly lesser of two eveils, realizing that Romney is a 'Massachusetts moderate' (de facto liberal) who disdains conservatives and their values but has to fake it for a few months to secure the GOP nomination. The next few years are going to be chaotic for America and frankly, I think Romney may just end up wishing he had moved to the Bahamas and retired on his millions instead of chasing his ambition. Meanwhile, America continues to implode.

[DuncanWaring]

IF Romney is nominee, I will ONLY vote down ticket for Reps/Sen/State offices.

There's no reason you can't vote for someone for president - there's always "third party" or write-in.

[P.O.E.]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Even if we get rid of all elected incumbents, there’s still the hoardes of bureaucrats, regulators, lawyers, etc. that are dragging us down.

[rockrr]

Good post. I was formulating a reply to GeronL urging a down-ticket vote but you said it so much better than what I had in mind.

[MotorCityBuck]

Ditto.

[MotorCityBuck]

Excellent. I have to vote for the Communist, or the Nazi. One is better than the other I am constantly told.
Go Newt!

[Dubh_Ghlase]

The Silent Majority is About to Explode

What's exploding is gun sales...

[hosepipe]

[ The Silent Majority is About to Explode ]

Hmmmmm... explode like a popcorn fart or like a revolution?..

[jersey117]

Sorry, but there is most definitely a difference between Romney the rino and the America-hating, racist, black theologist POS currently occupying our White House.

[Psalm 144]

The two wings of the Government Party offer you the choice of a disorganized and self indulgent megalomaniac leftwing progressive, or the focused and self disciplined megalomaniac leftwing progressive. The organized one -will- accomplish more harm if elected.

[Bon mots]

[newfreep]

”I didn’t swear loyalty to the president…”

[cblue55]

Yes, please stay home on election day.

[newfreep]

The Marine Corps Times previews its cover story about anti-Obama Marines at their ‘Battle Rattle’ blog.

“More anti-Obama talk is being heard in the workplace and new Military Times poll data shows declining approval among military service members for the president’s job as commander in chief,” the blog reports.

[Future Snake Eater]

”I didn’t swear loyalty to the president…”

None of us did. We're only required to obey lawful orders from POTUS and our CoC.

[jersey117]

Re your tag line: The rest of us were.

[stars & stripes forever]

The silent majority is not a majority until they speak and act as a majority. Where were they during the primaries? They have not awakened yet, and it seem those who have are going back to sleep.

[stars & stripes forever]

It's going to take Divine intervention to turn America around, but are the silent majority too tired to follow God's command?

"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and change their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 4:17

Time is running out on America. If God would allow the Israelites to be destroyed in Isaiah's time because of their disobedience to Him, why should America be exempt?

[PeteB570]

Obama thanks you.