Beckism On Communism
ZerkonXXXX
The following is an excerpt from Glenn Beck's Web site. It seems to be a
transcription from perhaps a radio or TV show.
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‘If you go back and you read history from just before Wilson all the way
through FDR, what they were trying to do with these Progressives, which
Hillary Clinton claims she is, an early 20th century Progressive. Go
back and read about these people. They are telling you who they are, and
Americans just won't do the homework. They don't believe in local level.
This is the opposite of what our founding fathers set up. These people,
all believers in Marxism. They all believed that the Soviet Union would
succeed and so what they did was they were looking for something to unite
nationally and Mussolini -- you have to put this into perspective.
Mussolini was not hated for much of his term. In fact, he was idealized
by the left here in America. They thought fascism, before it became
about extermination of entire people, they thought, this is a good thing;
we could just get the Government to tell people what's good, what's
right. That's why the Progressives in the early 20th century brought you
prohibition! It wasn't good for you to drink. It wasn't good for
society to have alcohol available. And if you didn't agree with them,
you were either in on it with big alcohol or you were too stupid and you
needed to be retrained. And so they were looking for things that would
unite the country but not war and so FDR, one of the projects he started
was the Conservation Corps to help the environment, to save our forests.
Does any of this sound familiar? Does anybody think that maybe possibly
that's the real story behind going green, the environmental movement that
now cannot be dissevered from global warming? Starting projects, little
armies of the youth! Put them into a mindset that is one with the
government, one with the environment, one with the Earth.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/5924/
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If this disconnected nonsense had been posted here or on most any other
NG, the poster would have been taken for someone nearly deranged. The
possible fact that allowances are to be made because this was spoken does
not change the frantic force behind the falsehoods.
The centerpiece seems to be "Americans just wouldn't do the homework"
meaning Glenn Beck has which he now shares with his listeners who
apparently also have not done the homework. Anyone having actually "done
the homework" would not be listening to Glenn Beck. His lesson, if one
can make out a coherent lesson ion this, so fact vacant.
For instance, Progressives, like Hillary Clinton, brought Prohibition.
Progressives were/are Marxists who are also Fascists.
The historical consequence of this ridiculous position is Methodists,
Quakers, Presbyterians and Baptists, all great champions of Prohibition,
are still or were then Fascists, Marxists and evil Communists who, btw,
idealized Mussolini (!?).
Glenn Beck also informs his listeners about the founding fathers who
"believed in the local level" so much so, what they founded was a more
centralized, more powerful Federal Government than was tolerated under
the earlier Articles Of Confederation. Shay's Rebellion was a homage to
this local level they believed in so very much.
This guy personifies 'dumbing down of America'. One is literally dumber
after reading and then believing in the above. The real driving force
here is not homework, not history but raw emotion in the service of raw
propaganda using the 101 of cultism: "the few special 'us' must fight the
many ignorant 'them'".
Bret Cahill
I not an expert on rightard TV or radio but at first glance Beck comes
off as such a shallow clown at first you chuckle 100% certain it's
impossible for anyone that vapid and banal to be a threat to anyone or
anything.
Then you remember that's what many German Jews thought about Hitler in
the 1930s. Later they coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to
help explain the Holocaust.
The fundamental problem isn't Hitler or Beck but the winger dingers
who exchange their talking points through a central demagogue
"clearinghouse" without any input from any other source.
After all, the First Amendment includes the right to not listen to
unflattering facts.
The fact that they are ignorant of history or political analysis seems
like small spuds.
Bret Cahill