Rush Limbaugh: Abortion at The Root of U.S. Cultural Decay

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/16/Rush-Limbaugh-Abortion-At-The-Root-of-U-S-Cultural-Decay

 by Dr. Susan Berry 16 Jun 2013, 12:59 PM PDT

During his radio show on Friday, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners, “I think abortion is at the root of so much that has and is going wrong in this country.”

The conservative host went on to discuss that the reason why amnesty is essential to the liberal agenda is because abortion has, since Roe v. Wade in 1973, wiped out millions of potential taxpayers. The Democrat Party, Limbaugh said, has turned to amnesty as a means to ensure a “permanent underclass” in order to continue its image as the party of big government entitlements.

Limbaugh said:

    Folks, let me tell you the way Washington thinks, in many ways, but this is one way they think.  They need money.  The US government needs money.  We are hopelessly in debt.  The tax increases that are coming are already over the top.  Washington knows, much of official Washington knows that they've gone beyond the point here, taxation, because the impact on economic growth and productivity and creativity has now been stifled.  I mean, the tax rates are such that real creation of wealth, real opportunity for prosperity is diminishing left and right.

    They've got to come up with money.  And they know this:  If you use the popularly accepted figure of 1.3 million abortions a year, go back to Roe vs. Wade 1973, 52 million taxpayers haven't been born, is the way Washington looks at it.  They don't look at it morally. They don't look at it in any kind of cultural way or any kind of cultural impact. They just say we're 52 million people short.  We have 52 million fewer people paying taxes.  We gotta replace 'em.  Hello amnesty.  The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass in order to keep themselves alive as Santa Claus, to keep winning elections and stay in power.

“I think that the number of abortions themselves…culturally, in terms of the sanctity of life, how that’s crumbled, I think it’s almost at the root of everything,” Limbaugh went on to say. “And if it’s not at the root of everything, it’s clearly had a profound impact on our culture, our society, and our politics, I think in ways that people don’t even stop to consider.”

Limbaugh discussed the fact that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi refused to answer the Weekly Standard’s question on Thursday about the morality of late-term abortion.

“And, by the way, that’s it, she wasn’t gonna talk any more about it because she is a devout Catholic,” Limbaugh said. “She has six kids, and it isn’t about politics, and she’s not gonna discuss it anymore, she said, because the interviewer was taking it in the direction of politics, and abortion isn’t politics. Abortion is sacred ground, she said. It is the sacrament of liberalism, is what it is.”

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Isn't it interesting you can be fined for crushing a fragile turtle egg, but killing an unborn baby is just hunky.......

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There are two philosophical points that can be made about abortion as well as Rush's financial point.

1. Is the relinquishment of the the virtue of responsibility. For all our evolutionary history (ours as well as all species) we are driven by the force to procreate. In mammals especially, that has also evolved into the trait of caring for and nurturing your young. That role is built into our genes as part of adulthood and evolution has made it to where that responsibility drives almost everything we do. As we abdicate that as a culture or even a species, we are telling our inner programming that we are not ready for that role and thus, we remain stuck in a youth mindset where you don't have responsibility. I often find it funny when the left accuses the Right of being religious nuts when many things they believe fly against the evolutionary make up of us as a person and our world. Evolution has made is to be a machine that procreates and takes care of young. It is the very core of nature. The left is giving up on that is almost a religious act against nature in the same way monks to it (but at least for the latter they are honest about their intentions). (the same idea can be said for almost anything as liberalism fights evolution and nature or at least separates man from nature as though we were something otherworldly from Greek mythology ordered not to interfere).

2. It rejects the principals of individual rights which is the very foundation of progress in society towards liberty. Abortion says in part, that during some point in your existence, through no fault of your own, you are not an individual (as defined by being a unique being with unique DNA from any other individual). You are therefore subject at the whim of another to have your existence stolen away from you. Yes, you are a dependent individual to the mother, but there again is where liberals go against nature and evolution, both of which tell us that the baby is not just a tissue mass part of the mother but a unique life which is a product of millions of years of evolution and no real scientist would call just another 'tissue mass that is the mother's body'. The only way to justify abortion philosophically is to again reject science and create a religious mentality around it where there are no unique individuals but instead, we are part of a collective Gaia consciousness in which all life belongs to each other and some life is more valuable than other.

Much of the left's philosophy can also be boiled down as to a rejection of science in a way to control existence, or simply a rejection of rationalism replacing it with emotion.

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“I think abortion is at the root of so much that has and is going wrong in this country.”

I have been saying this for years...when you don't value human life, evil creeps into it...