{"id":2379,"date":"2010-08-12T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2010-08-12T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T23:23:45","slug":"glenn-beck-we-are-only-delaying-our-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck: We Are Only Delaying Our Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his radio program today, Glenn Beck laid out a plan<\/a> for creating economic havoc and bankrupting the country. This exceeds Rush Limbaugh’s famous desire for President Obama to fail. Beck is proposing an action plan to achieve that end.<\/p>\n

In a discussion that began with a biblical reference to Ecclesiastes, Beck preached that “To everything there is a season.”<\/i> and that “This is the season for awakening.”<\/i> Beck’s awakening is one that calls for Americans to recognize the futility of striving to make America a better country, and instead to let it collapse into ruin:<\/p>\n

Beck:<\/b> For this system to work you’ve got to spend money. But I’m telling you this system will never work. We’re only delaying our death. Let us do what Coolidge did. Let it come down and retool. It led to the roaring twenties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Beck is expressly advising his disciples to withhold spending. Our fragile economy is thirsting for the consumer confidence that will drive growth, create jobs, and save families, but Beck is telling his viewers to that there is no hope, that “this system will never work.”<\/i> That advice can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Which, of course, is exactly what Beck wants. He says so explicitly when he calls for “let[ting] it come down.”<\/i><\/p>\n

There is a great deal wrong with that advice. First and foremost it is an advocacy of failure and hardship. It would cause profound and unnecessary pain for millions. But his justification for this dreadful path is that it could lead to something resembling the roaring twenties. Well, we know how that turned out: The stock market crash of 1929, followed by the Great Depression. This is what Beck is actively engaged in bringing about by misleading his gullible congregation into deliberately making matters worse.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he believes that we deserve to suffer; that we have brought this hardship on ourselves. Perhaps he believes that God has forsaken us, and for that we must endure the cleansing pain of a divine fire. He spoke repeatedly of fire on television today, which fits nicely with what he was saying on the radio this morning:<\/p>\n

Beck:<\/b> Is this land less blessed than we’ve all been raised? Well not all of us. Not the Marxists – almost everybody who works at the White House. Are we somehow or another less blessed as a land than we always have been? I think the answer to that one is yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Beck has concluded that America is less blessed, which is another way of saying that God has turned his back on us. Then Beck went full-throttle televangelist, discarding all talk of politics and policy. He sermonized passionately that the only hope for America is to turn to faith. And then he made it an article of faith to attend his revival meeting in Washington DC in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

All that’s left of Beck’s spiel is hucksterism and lies. He sees himself as the sword of God and the shepherd of his unhinged flock. With every day his appeal to fear escalates. But what’s truly frightening is that he has said that his upcoming rally will be an historical event that will be a turning point for the nation. Now he must feel some pressure to deliver. I wonder what the Hell he is planning (with the emphasis on Hell).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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