beginning in the progressive movement. And they thought, "you know what, if we just do this and this
and this and this, over time if we do it in both the Republican and Democratic parties, we will have our
socialist utopia." Well, I am drafting plans now to bring us back to an America that our founders
would understand...We need to start thinking like the Chinese."
-- Glenn Beck,
For a man with a college education consisting of one class he dropped out of , Mr. Beck has a lot of opinions concerning history. Mr. Beck has no professional background in Early American history. It is also apparent from the ludicrious statement he made trying to draw some comparison to China with the founding fathers that he has not studied Chinese history.
For a man who make $23 million a year I expect more than just random opinion and propaganda.
If Glenn Beck is drafting a plan to bring America back to its early foundation he must be planning to eliminate the current political party system, get rid of the current banking system, return the United States to a pre-industrial agrarian society, set up a more direct democracy on the local level, cut military spending by 95%, allow US merchants to deal with any country in a non-political fashion however they like, funnel the majority of government spending toward citizen education and limit our political involvement with Europe and Asia.
If I were to hazard a guess into the mind of a former drug and alcohol addict like Beck, I'd guess he is talking about some progressive measures that took place in the early 1900's like creating national parks, the right to create unions which allowed people to make a living wage in factories whilst keeping 10 year old children from working 16 hour days where they could easily become permanently maimed. Maybe he is thinking about he Women's sufferage movement. Since the New Deal was the closest the US has ever come to a Socialist Utiopia I am not terribly worried if this does happen. Perhaps I should share a slide show of the Great Depression with Mr. Beck. No, it would be wasted.