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GLENN BECK AND THE RADICAL RIGHT
It doesn't sound like you were a Glenn Beck listener back in the day, back when he was all comedy, all the time, most of it ingeniously, rip-roaring funny.
Those of use who have followed Glenn for several years know that he's very grounded and also very passionate about his beliefs. He's not a kook. He just sounds like one to some people.
Glenn has friends in the financial industry who feed him info, as well as other sources of inside information. He's not just speaking off the cuff with his warnings: he is an autodidact, an avid reader of history and political philosophy. He sees the handwriting on the wall and is yelling for us to get out of the warm pot before it boils.
This puzzles me:
"you cannot ignore the rise of people like Beck whose fantasies about Obama and the Democrats trying to turn this country into a socialist nation (or Communist) rather than implement a far left liberal agenda"
What is on the far left if not socialism and communism? The difference between where we are now, where we're being moved, and the Soviet Union is a difference of degree, not of kind.
Given the juggernaut of government expansion that has gripped the country since Woodrow Wilson, why SHOULDN'T Glenn Beck stand astride history and shriek STOP!!! at the top of his lungs?
What else is going to slay this beast? Calm, reasoned rhetoric? Wry social commentary?
If I had told you 5 years ago that the SecTreas would dictate how private financial institutions were run, you'd have called me a loon too.
If you're embarrassed by Glenn Beck, fine. He's not everyone's cup of Joe. But he's also not advocating an armed rebellion (quite the opposite; he vocally condemns such) but rather civil disobedience, melting the phone lines to the Capitol, and asking people to get informed about the Constitution and the founding concepts that built our nation.
Those "kook" issues are not the bread and butter of Glenn Beck's agenda. Better if his critics spend a week or so listening to his shows than seize upon his apparent paranoia.
Comment Posted By dicentra On 8.04.2009 @ 12:27
