Rush Limbaugh (50:23)
Gig because there are other factors. People making a decision might like somebody more than they like you. It's vicious. And you have to be totally, singularly focused on Yourself, not in a bad way. You have to believe in yourself. You have to believe there's a reason you're trying to pursue the highest levels you can go. And that's because you can do it and you can do it well and you can do it better than anybody else. The minute you carve out that, that life for yourself, you are making enemies. Because a lot of people are going to be fighting for the same thing and they're going to try to be beating you out and denying you what you want. You're going to be doing the same thing to them. There are going to be others who just resent you for thinking you're that good. They're going to resent you for even having the audacity to try to climb that high. I mean, folks, it is vicious out there. It's also very healthy. All of these things are things that successful people have to go through in order not just to reach the pinnacle, but then to stay there. Because I'm going to tell you, getting there while fraught with stress and competition and never ending assaults, getting there is not even half as hard as staying. Because once you get there or close to it, everybody wants what you have. And there's really, it's much easier to go south than north when you're at the top. And so that's why I have this philosophy about limitations. It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy. The Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something. And what happens to you when you're a victim? Well, when you're a victim, you automatically have a built in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get and you can't get any further because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it. And the Democrat Party does this on purpose. The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful. If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content. If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else. The Democrats have parlayed this into one of the biggest political movements in human history. And that would be of the victimized. Look at how many victim groups there are. And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups. They all are on the protest march, they're all angry, they're all enraged. Some of them are women, some of them are minorities, some of them are illegal immigrants, you name it. But they all have one thing in common. They have given up on the notion that they could be somebody and instead have descended into full fledged victimhood and the comfort of being in a group of like minded failures. Why isn't everybody a victim? It'd be easy if anybody could choose that if they wanted to. Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal. It's one of those gutless choices you could make. Doesn't take much. Built in excuses for failure, built in excuses for being miserable. Built in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to try to be happy. It's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of discrimination. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past. You're a victim of, of religion, you're. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call him up, you know, call Schumer, tell him, hey, I want to join you. I want to be a victim. Do you have a group for me? He'll have one. He'll ask you what color you are, he'll ask you what your sexual orientation is, he'll ask you what your gender is. He'll ask you any number of questions and he'll give you your choice of victim groups that you can join. And then he'll show you where you go to get a food stamp allocation here, this or that, there how you get emergency health care if you need it all on the Democrats. And it can keep it flowing if you just do two things. Stay victim and vote Democrat. But the people that don't choose that end up being the ones victims hate. The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up. The people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be. And if that's really what they do want to do, victims are going to hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment. So if you think for Example that, well, let's say you, you, you want to do a job and you want to be really, you want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small, or maybe the business is in your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, it's not because it's a small town. It's. It's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself now. That's fine if that's what makes you happy. I'm not criticizing things, I'm just pointing out that it's not usually anybody else's fault when you don't get what you want.
