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This is a really good read and in my opinion does a very good job explaining what Beck did Saturday and what he's trying to do in general.

I Think I See What Glenn Beck is Doing:


The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people.

Why?

He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.

Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.

Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.

Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.

Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.

Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.

Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.

Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.

Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.

He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post.

Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.

Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.

Beck is prepping the battlefield for a generation-long battle.

He is that very American thing: A practical visionary.

See, simple.

Restore pride and confidence to your own side, and win the long game.

As Ronald Reagan also said, there are simple solutions, just no easy solutions.

God bless America.

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 07:33:18 AM »
AMEN!!!

And, the left is FURIOUS as a result. To get a prime example of their comical lunacy, try looking at the Huffingpost Post, once in a while.

The race thing is especially killing them. The left is crying that Beck is besmirching MLK's dream and his legacy....meanwhile his niece, Dr. Alveda King, gets standing ovations from all those "racist bigoted white people". Heck, she's even leading them in singing "Lift Every Voice And Sing" (the unofficial "black national anthem), albeit many didn't know the words.

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 11:21:29 AM »
Nope,I heard Ed Shultz say that Beck is a racist and that Shultz could easily get 300,000 to the mall to support him.He said he could get the people whos' unemployment ran out,unions,teachers and many other malcontents and lazy do nothings up there.

By the way Shultz also said his goal is kick FOXS' ass and burry them and then piss on them.I wonder how he feels everyday when he sees the ratings and every host on FOX has taken a crap on his head?

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 11:28:56 AM »
Good commentary.  I think what Beck did is a great thing.

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 02:03:59 PM »
What Beck did is a good thing.  He showed that you can rally to celebrate the greatness of the country.  The majority has a voice in America, and we don't need to always have minority views shoved down our throats. 

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2010, 02:14:35 PM »
What Beck did is a good thing.  He showed that you can rally to celebrate the greatness of the country.  The majority has a voice in America, and we don't need to always have minority views shoved down our throats. 

What I thought was utterly brilliant was the call to leave the signs home. 

He took the media's feet right out from under them since they all wanted that one sign with the N word on it to discredit the entire thing. 

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Re: The Beck Rally: The Real Point, The Real Goal...someone who gets it
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2010, 05:58:32 PM »
What I thought was utterly brilliant was the call to leave the signs home. 

He took the media's feet right out from under them since they all wanted that one sign with the N word on it to discredit the entire thing. 

Yep!!!

And, their cries of disgracing MLK's legacy got crushed under foot, with Alveda King, getting standing ovations for her statements about her uncle's legacy and her "I Too Have A Dream" speech.