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Speaker 1: Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelly. Great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the program. Hello Rush, Hey, Um yeah, Shelly from Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, Rush, I've been around for about over

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Speaker 1: six decades saying a lot of politics either way. God's

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Speaker 1: but I've had a lot of Democratic friends. Um, where

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Speaker 1: did these crazy super mental cases come from? I mean,

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Speaker 1: did they come from? Well, you know, I'm actually glad

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Speaker 1: you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this

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Speaker 1: reaction that you're having within three months of Obama being inaugurated.

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Speaker 1: All through the Bush ears, I mean, we saw radical

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Speaker 1: leftists out there, the anti war people, but it was

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Speaker 1: primarily in the media. Uh. And I mean during the

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Speaker 1: a contender. Um Our problems then was that that Bush

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Speaker 1: attempts to sabotage his regime in the wars and and

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Speaker 1: all this. Then Obama gets elected. All of a sudden

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Speaker 1: it hit me the same way you have just described

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Speaker 1: to here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half

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Speaker 1: these people come from? Where has this been? I had

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Speaker 1: as the American education system primarily. There are other avenues

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Speaker 1: pop culture, but the American education system and the Democrat

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Speaker 1: get more specific, I could, because a lot of this

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Speaker 1: radical leftism that you're talking about, Tyler millennials is cultural

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Speaker 1: as well, and I think with Obama's election somehow it

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Speaker 1: just it's surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction

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Speaker 1: have lost this ground. Ian. We know these people have

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Speaker 1: always been there, but they've always been considered to be

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Speaker 1: did seem like the election of Obama just brought a

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Speaker 1: And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many

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Speaker 1: has to be the education system. And I think you're

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Speaker 1: probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.

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Speaker 1: I actually believe that one of the primary, one of

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Speaker 1: radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that

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Speaker 1: snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that

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Speaker 1: shows it's not important to ten percent of the country.

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Speaker 1: Nobody was believing it. The millennial explosion after Obama's inauguration

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Speaker 1: think was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination

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Speaker 1: to Ted Turner's Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet

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Speaker 1: subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One

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Speaker 1: of them, you know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince

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Speaker 1: Charles has got to be well. It is a nice guy,

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Speaker 1: it does a lot for charity, but the guy is

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Speaker 1: a loon. And you would be too. If you were

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Speaker 1: born to be the future king and here you are

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Speaker 1: Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that

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Speaker 1: thirty years now. Well, now he's back. The Prince of

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Speaker 1: me to my second story. There are actually three. This

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Speaker 1: is the Boston Herald and Editorial yesterday. Carbon emissions are

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Speaker 1: soon to become the latest portal the state of Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels. Executive director

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Speaker 1: Michael Green of Climate Exchange, a nonprofit of course with

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Speaker 1: does not include the cost of climate inaction. In other words,

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Speaker 1: doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing,

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Speaker 1: and those are absolutely are only two choices. You either

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Speaker 1: want a carbon tax, a ban on plastic straws or

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Speaker 1: bottles or styrofoam, you are a climate denier. Furthermore, since

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Speaker 1: climate change is purportedly the new World War two, if

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Speaker 1: Axis forces. You are a Nazi and a denier. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, the Boston Herald is editorializing against the

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Speaker 1: The third story is the p s that is this

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Speaker 1: it ran in Where did this run? A vice website

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Speaker 1: called Vice Climate Despair is making people give up on life.

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Speaker 1: It's a piece and I folks, there's no doubt that

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Speaker 1: Many people are suffering from what could be called climate despair,

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Speaker 1: since that climate change is an unstoppable force that will

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Speaker 1: As David Wallace Wells noted in his bestseller The uninhabitable

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Speaker 1: The vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from

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Speaker 1: perennial eschological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the

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Speaker 1: Book of Revelation. Climate despair has been a phrase used

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Speaker 1: at least as far back as Eric Pooley's book The

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Speaker 1: Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to

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