Whatever you may think of Glenn Beck personally, in this segment he’s exactly right. From the cycle of slavery, to freedom, to wealth, back to slavery; to the communists in our government.
If you don’t believe him, maybe you’ll believe Amity Shlaes, Jonah Goldberg or Jean François Revel.
Amity Shlaes wrote The Forgotten Man. She detailed the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the way his policies prolonged The Great Depression. Jonah Goldberg authored Liberal Fascism, another well researched book exposing the greatest liberal lie of the past century. Liberals, progressives, communists, socialists, leftists – whatever you want to call them – they are all cut from the same cloth as the Nazis. If you don’t believe Americans, Jean François Revel, a Frenchman, wrote the eye opening Last Exit to Utopia. He explains how the leftists have written the history books, which is why we hear about the horrors of the “right wing” Nazis but not the “left wing” communists. All three of these books will dispel any illusions you may harbor about the Nazis being right wing. They were as far left as Stalin, Lenin, Castro, FDR and any other commie you can think of.
The reason the left fails to denounce the atrocities of despotic communist dictators (both past and present) is that by doing so they would have to admit that there is no utopia. If they can’t promise utopia, what platform will they run on? How can they control you if you’re free? They just believe that somehow they’ll be much better statists than their predecessors.
I won’t even link to my Amazon account. I don’t care if I get a few cents commission, what I do care about is that Americans start waking up. (Disclaimer: One of the books I mentioned was sent to me by a publisher to read and comment on, I bought the other two out of pocket.) I’ll be hanging on to all three, along with quite a few others, and they’ll be required reading for my children when they’re old enough to understand. It’s my job to educate them. It’s my job to educate myself. I’ve learned more in the past two years than I learned in twelve years of public school and four years of college. The more I learn the more disgusted I become not only with our elected officials, but with many of my fellow Americans. But at least my fellow Americans can claim ignorance, thanks to our public schools.
While re-educating yourself, your children, or your friends, don’t stop at FDR and The Great Depression. Go back to our founding, to the Constitution. Read the Constitution. Read the Declaration of Independence. And then ask yourself if anything you hear these days makes any sense. Read about the Great Depression of 1920. Never heard of it, did you? That’s because it didn’t last that long. That’s because President Harding didn’t meddle. I know, how boring. It’s much better to romanticize a statist who surrounded himself with “progressives” than to honor a man for knowing his limits, and the limits of the federal government.
Mike Church is another good source for information on the Constitution. (He’s not happy with Glenn Beck over the Debra Medina “Truther” issue, but I can’t believe he’d disagree with what Beck said in the video above.)
It’s so important to know history. To know how we got from a constitutional republic to this beast we have today. I could go on and on, but time is limited. Now that my little rant is out of my system I’ll bring you back to my regularly scheduled blogging. You know, keeping up with the statists of today.
Update: History is already repeating itself. Only getting worse. For the first time since The Great Depression, Americans are now taking more from the government than paying into it. How long can we keep this up folks?
Great post LC. This had to be one of Becks most informative shows. The old videos of the American Nazis and American Communist literature were an eye opener. And “how long can we keep this up…?” Not for any length of time IMHO. The more of progressivism that’s exposed and linked to Obama and his administrators, the more I personally think that their agenda has an affinity for the intentional destruction of our country’s political system.
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Thanks. This stuff gets me so riled up. We aren’t “rich” but we’ve worked damned hard for everything we have. And we still work hard. Night and day. After working 8 hours, dinner and homework with the kids, I’ve been working on this blog while my husband’s working on an estimate. We’ll go to bed and start all over again tomorrow. Day in and day out. And for that the government will punish us. In the name of fairness. Like I said, I could go on and on, but there’s so little time. All we can do is try to get the word out there.
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Yep, I understand and agree totally. We go in for our “ass whipping” at the accountants on Friday. We’re prepared to write a big check to the Treasury after paying out the ying yang the entire year already. We are planning to attend happy hour directly after the appointment. If this “progressive” tax that we all must submit to becomes much more of a burden, I’m thinking that our family will become a “Laffer Curve” statistical element.
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I have developed a real interest in reading contemporaneous history, and to do so, I’ve bought back issues of magazines (Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Look, Liberty, etc). I have particularly paid attention to the 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s. I have been astounded.
First, in reading editorials or opinion pieces, current names can be inserted in the critiques, and one would never know that these pieces were written 50-80 years ago…….never know, seriously, which says that the old adage is true that history repeats itself.
Second, I find the ads in the magazines especially enlightening. They, of course, contain a whole lot of text…….so different from today. Starting in the late 30′s through the mid 50′s, the text-full ads are talking about not only supporting the war effort and explaining why, but also about supporting our republic and free enterprise and encouraging Americans to work against socialized medicine (one of the organizations underwriting that ad? the ABA!)and reminding Americans that good hard labor is what this nation is built on, etc.
I have wished many times that I could share these pieces of history with you all. As you know, the magazines are larger than can be scanned. If you have any ideas about how I can disseminate these, please let me know.
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Have you done an internet search to see if they’re already online? If you do find them, please share.
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You could try Kinko’s and see if they have a large flatbed scanner at reasonable scan prices. If they have one that will work, take a USB thumb drive or CD data media to save your work to. Reduce the scan to fit normal paper at 72 dpi which is usually the resolution for web viewing and keeps file size reasonable and save the file in a .jpg / .jpeg format. Scanning only in black and white can be a solution for reducing file size as well. I have scanned large map atlas books with success for page redistribution when organizing trips for large groups and I have found the staff at Kinko’s to be knowledgeable and helpful, just ask and tell them what you want to do. When you get what you want in file format, you could ask LC if she would consider posting some or put up on your own site and link to it.
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