Why Glenn Beck Spouts PC Nonsense

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Why Glenn Beck Spouts PC Nonsense

Monday, September 6th, 2010 | blogging

John Derbyshire points out the completely liberal nature of Glenn Beck’s opinions and mode of operating, noting that it just about has to be this way, as the moment Glenn Beck starts offering genuinely rightist views is the moment he gets shut out of the airwaves.

Consider Derb’s list of “uncomfortable truths” that will need to be addressed to see real arrest of the nation’s deterioration.

* the impossibility of continuing federal entitlements at anything like their present levels;
* the radical reduction in public services and public employment that would follow if tax rates were lowered to the degree Beck and his supporters claim to wish
* the mad folly of giving settlement visas to a million foreigners a year when unemployment stands at ten percent;
* the doubleplus-mad folly of permitting illegal settlement of millions of Mexican and Central American peasants to form a permanent new underclass making huge new demands on government services
* the gross and pointless squandering of public monies on crackpot schemes of education reform
* the certainly and inevitably nation-destroying effect of permitting public employees to unionize;
* the impossibility of effective law enforcement without racial profiling
* the absurdity of waging war not to crush and demoralize the enemy, but to transform his nation into 1955 Oklahoma.
* the infantile narcissism of believing that all life’s ills have a remedy in law;
* the contradiction inherent in wishing for a health-care system that (a) has no socialist component, or only a modest one, while (b) providing every known treatment or level of care to every condition for everyone
* the doubleplus contradiction inherent in the previous bullet point when the genome can be cheaply and rapidly sequenced.

Lets’ add a few more.

* that affirmative action has accomplished anything good whatsoever;
* the ongoing recruitment of whites via their money and manpower and fertility to remedy the “racial gap” in education, i.e. helping the permanently disadvantaged;
* the media’s anti-white, hopelessly leftist agenda;
* the sure-thing race replacement of whites into the nation’s minority, with all that entails;
* anchor babies;
* rule by lawyers and judges.

Beck, so far as I know, mentions none of these things; Palin either. That this big rally in Washington was led by an ex-alcoholic and drug addicted Mormon gives one pause, even more so considering the number of people this charlatan managed to attract, all eager to absolve themselves of racism, all eagerly playing to the current anti-white zeitgeist. He’s a William Jennings Bryan for the support-our-troops crowd.

The best we can hope for out of all this is, I think, that a real leader will come along and co-opt (to use a word of the 60s radicals, who can teach us a few things) Beck and Palin.

Maybe Thilo Sarrazin is available.