Glenn Beck 8/28 rally – the death rattle of mainstream conservatism

[goldmonkey]

Glenn Beck 8/28 rally – the death rattle of mainstream conservatism (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2010/08/30/glenn-beck-828-rally-the-death-rattle-of-mainstream-conservatism/)


Glenn Beck’s big rally at the Lincoln Memorial a couple days ago is the talk of the news media and the internet. Liberals are denouncing it, conservatives are walking on air, while tens of millions of people are completely mystified. And with good reason – if Seinfeld was a show about nothing, this massive gathering was a rally about nothing. And while it may have looked impressive, in reality it shows just how impotent and adrift the mainstream conservative movement has become.

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[Down1]

Down near the end of the column are 2 key paragraphs

That’s why the Beck Heads and Tea Partiers are losing their country. Not because they don’t attend their local mosque often enough. But they can’t admit that, because that would be “racist”, and losing your country is a lot better than being called “racist.”

But a conservative movement as willingly impotent as the crowd that came to DC on Saturday can’t go on much longer. At some point it’s going to dawn on them that no matter how much they grovel to MLK and praise his holy name, or how many “conservative” imams, shamans, and witch doctors they pack their podiums with, they still get called racists and Nazis, and their country just keeps slipping further down the tubes.

[EE_]

But but, they had Zionist Sarah Palin there speaking?

[Book]

But a conservative movement as willingly impotent as the crowd that came to DC on Saturday can’t go on much longer. At some point it’s going to dawn on them that no matter how much they grovel to MLK and praise his holy name, or how many “conservative” imams, shamans, and witch doctors they pack their podiums with, they still get called racists and Nazis, and their country just keeps slipping further down the tubes.

Just like it was planned in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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[wildcard]

http://www.slate.com/id/2265515?wpisrc=newsletter

White Fright
Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity.

One crucial element of the American subconscious is about to become salient and explicit and highly volatile. It is the realization that white America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority. This awareness already exists in places like New York and Texas and California, and there have even been projections of the time(s) at which it will occur and when different nonwhite populations will collectively outnumber the former white majority. But it also exerts a strong subliminal effect in states like Alaska that have an overwhelming white preponderance.

Until recently, the tendency has been to think of this rather than to speak of it—or to speak of it very delicately, lest the hard-won ideal of diversity be imperiled. But nobody with any feeling for the zeitgeist can avoid noticing the symptoms of white unease and the additionally uneasy forms that its expression is beginning to take.

For example, so strong is the moral stature of the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement that even the white right prefers to pretend to emulate it. (This smarmy tactic long predates Glenn Beck, by the way: I remember Ralph Reed trying it when he ran the Christian Coalition more than 10 years ago and announced that he wanted to remodel the organization along the lines of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.) Thus, it is really quite rare to hear slurs against President Barack Obama that are based purely on the color of his skin. Even Beck himself has tried to back away from the smears of that kind that he has spread in the past. But it is increasingly common to hear allegations that Obama is either foreign-born or a Muslim. And these insinuations are perfectly emblematic of the two main fears of the old majority: that it will be submerged by an influx from beyond the borders and that it will be challenged in its traditional ways and faiths by an alien and largely Third World religion.
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This summer, then, has been the perfect register of the new anxiety, beginning with the fracas over Arizona's immigration law, gaining in intensity with the proposal by some Republicans to amend the 14th Amendment so as to de-naturalize "anchor babies," cresting with the continuing row over the so-called "Ground Zero" mosque, and culminating, at least symbolically, with a quasi-educated Mormon broadcaster calling for a Christian religious revival from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

At the last "Tea Party" rally I attended, earlier this year at the Washington Monument, some in the crowd made at least an attempt to look fierce and minatory. I stood behind signs that read: "We left our guns at home—this time" and "We invoke the First Amendment today—the Second Amendment tomorrow." But Beck's event was tepid by comparison: a call to sink to the knees rather than rise from them. It was clever of him not to overbill it as a "Million"-type march (though Rep. Michele Bachmann was tempted to claim that magic figure). The numbers were impressive enough on their own, but the overall effect was large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity.

The Washington Post quoted Linda Adams, a Beck supporter from Colorado, who said, "We want our country to get back to its original roots," adding that "her ancestors were on the Mayflower and fought in the American Revolution." She was also upset that some schools no longer require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Well, the U.S. population is simply not going to be replenished by Puritan pilgrims from England, and the original Pledge of Allegiance was fine with most people as a statement of national unity, until its "original intent" was compromised by a late insertion of the words "under God" in the McCarthyite 1950s. But one still sees what she means and can feel sympathy with the pulse of nostalgia.

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[ShortJohnSilver]

If you are unable to choose a target, you will never be able to hit it.

Beck's crackhead inconsistencies are therefore perfect for misdirecting and diffusing the anger people feel towards the government.

Just once, I would like to see people show up in DC with more than their T shirts and bristol board signs - how about traffic flares, all lit and with the protesters surrounding say, one of the Congresscritter's buildings, as happened in Iceland?

[philo beddoe]

Beck works for the jews. Is there anything else to say?

[Silver Shield]

Neo Cons infiltrate another political party... Shocker!
Glenn Beck $20 million a year from zionist, globalist Ruppert Murdoch
Sarah Palin $20 million a year as Kissinger's spokes model...

[Book]

http://www.hermes-press.com/beck_palin.jpg

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/palin-kissinger.jpg

http://neoneocon.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/palinkiss.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bxKIG8a9zQQ/0.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DmxugwWNPAY/0.jpg

The fix is in and it is totally kosher.

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[goldmonkey]

Kevin MacDonald: Jonah Goldberg Loves Glenn Beck (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=3296)

[Apparition]

Just more sheep following their demagogic, mind-changing, Zionist herder.

How saddening.

[Still Barbaro]

Glenn Beck 8/28 rally – the death rattle of mainstream conservatism (http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2010/08/30/glenn-beck-828-rally-the-death-rattle-of-mainstream-conservatism/)

[quote]Glenn Beck’s big rally at the Lincoln Memorial a couple days ago is the talk of the news media and the internet. Liberals are denouncing it, conservatives are walking on air, while tens of millions of people are completely mystified. And with good reason – if Seinfeld was a show about nothing, this massive gathering was a rally about nothing. And while it may have looked impressive, in reality it shows just how impotent and adrift the mainstream conservative movement has become.

Goldmonkey,

I have a problem with the definition of "conservative." I've had this problem for years.

The are many types of conservatism. Some studies claim there are 7 types.

Regardless, so-called conservatism no longer means small government and low taxes. I think that ended many, many, years ago.

Oh, they talk about it, but look at the facts of these "conservatives."

Government has grown every year for decades. Reagan grew the government. Not as much as before, but he did.
Reagan would make the real cuts, and backed down on cutting Social Security.

9 Republiclans voted against Medicare-D in 2003, which is a financial disaster.

Being conservative is mostly talking about being conservative.

The moralist Christians can also talk - but they show up at the polls.


I see the Beck rally as nothing but a media event. The mainstream media re-played snippets of it over and over, and did that brilliant "analysis" of a sentence or two.

Honestly, it means nothing.

The people that showed up at this event, were already GOP votes, with a few who vote Libertarian.

[goldmonkey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDw4eVHbBc