Rush Limbaugh has stated unequivocally that he wants Obama to fail. Why? Because, as he says, "...what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it?"
Of course, such a statement makes you wonder why Rush thinks George W. Bush and the Congressional Republicans of 1995-2007 were so liberal, but there is an even deeper flaw in his logic:
The only reason why Rush would want Obama to fail - and thereby doom our country to greater deficits and a spiraling economy - is because he doesn't want his own beliefs to be discredited. He would rather be right and watch the country circle the drain than to be proven wrong in the marketplace of ideas, because Obama cannot 'succeed' unless his programs succeed, as well. If liberalism is such a blight on America as he supposes, then Obama's policies can't succeed. However, if they do succeed then Rush would be proved dead wrong in his assertion that liberalism is a dangerous problem.
His is the kind of ideo-logical (rather than simply 'logical') thinking that got us into this mess in the first place, and Rush's inability to see that is a function of his ego, pure and simple. Therefore, it is Rush Limbaugh's ego that is anti-American, and by his own logic it should be deported.
Fortunately we live in a country without 'Thought Police,' so it is up to those of us on the other side of his microphone to recognize the fallacy for what it is, and to move on to something that uplifts us all, not just one man's ego.
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