Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck’s “Honor America “event has come and gone now and what did we learn from it?  First, I would like to congratulate Mr. Beck for a job very well done.  He had said that he would not be another Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he did an absolutely stunning job of carrying that off.

It was a great confluence of the all-white high school dropouts and their mentors, the great robber baron corporate executives who teach those partially educated masses what they should know, especially that their great enemy is - The Government.  Or maybe I should say “govermint”.

We also learned that Beck is a rich and prestigious personality.  Also that he counts two main groups of people as his compatriots, some very rich people like David Koch and Dick Armey. In addition we learned that he has a substantial number of followers who appear to be reasonably well undereducated and fearful of government. In dealing with the latter group, Beck appears to appeal to their fear by invoking unnamed events and he appeals to their lack of education by teaching them some things that they all agree they should, and agree they really do know, largely based on innuendo concerning the Bible, hallowed words from our Founding Fathers, and that Capitalism is really only just free enterprise.

Obviously Beck has no serious political ambitions.  That is clear.  We must remember though that was also clear with Adolph Hitler - and that’s why he rose so easily at first.  Personally I don’t see Beck as being a serious candidate but that is an opinion - for right now.  The people who make the American President are now carefully accumulating and evaluating their list of “Possible Lords”.  I would think that he must rate very low.  

Beck’s role is to attract and appeal to the bottom rung of excitable and fearful people in the United States.  He does that well, and  for that he is paid more than a million dollars each month.  One of his sponsors claims to make your penis larger (Extenz), another is a gold stock company (Goldline).   Wow.  Where is Shakespeare?  He could have a ball with all this.  You can almost see it now - the under educated, the under achievers, the under-sized underdogs.  But.  Gold stocks rise when times are  uncertain and when the world looks  to be in great trouble, especially when there is imminent threat of war or when the stock and bond markets look uncertain and particularily when panic begins to seep out.  Could there be a connection?  If people tune into Beck and hear that the world is floating into uncertain times, are more people are concerned about putting their money into gold?  You bet - this has been going on for thousands of years.

The penis thing?  You got me there.  But if you think you have been deprived of your share of the worlds natural wealth, or if you think God has let you down and cut you off short, then Glenn Beck will make up for those mistakes.  I think you can see that he really does feel for  you.  He may even cry for you.

So.  I don't watch Beck.  Have never seen one of his programs.  Never will.  But he doesn't care.  He is rolling.  A rich man he is and widely respected by a large group of people.