How Rush Converted an Avowed Socialist

TODD: Speaking of that let’s talk to Ken in Livonia, Michigan, Ken, you’re on the Rush Limbaugh program, Todd Herman sitting in for our departed friend. Welcome, Ken.

CALLER: …I want to show some light on how he’s actually changed my life and I believe so many others. At the time that I met Rush Limbaugh, … without a doubt I was a socialist. Now, some people that say, “Well, how do you know you were a socialist?” Well, I was a 100% strong supporter of the Democrat Party. I had read their platform. I approved of it. I had read the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx. I agree with it. and I said at that time, “Hey, I’m a socialist, man,” just like all the Democrats are today, socialists. Now, because of the education that I got from Rush Limbaugh, education on economics, education in history, and talking about the U.S. Constitution, why it was created, everything I learned from Rush Limbaugh, and then I went out on my own and investigated to make sure what he said was true.

Today… Where I was an atheist/socialist, today, because of Rush — the influence of Rush Limbaugh — I’m a Christian who’s a constitutionalist, who believes in the free market system. And here’s the difference that I saw thanks to Rush. Any country that follows the belief system, the worldview held by the Democrat Party…We end up being the former Soviet Union. We end up today being Venezuela, China, Cuba. Well, I believe in freedom. I want to live in a nation where I’m a citizen under a small government, not a servant — a subject — under a big, fat, bloated government like we see here in Michigan, what we see in Washington, D.C.,…

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