Glenn Beck on 2010: It's no longer a matter of parties, it's about stopping progressives.
This couldn't happen in Britain, it simply wouldn't be possible for a moment:
Beck: Well, the media may be surprised, but I'm not. I think the days when people vote for Democrats or Republicans no matter what -- you know, if it's an R or a D, I'm just gonna pull it -- I think we're seeing the end of those days. For so long, we've bought into the Rs and the Ds -- you know, we're really at a one-party system at this point. We needed to identify ourselves as one or the other, even though it didn't really make a difference. And that label was much more important than the real label we all should have been wearing, and that is, American.Am I reading this wrong, or is he now claiming that it is American to be a conservative?
Progressives have put their agenda now into hyperdrive, and it is so crystal clear that their final goal is anything but American.
No British political party would be able to claim that they represent "real" Brits as Sarah Palin constantly claimed the Republican party represented "real" Americans during the last election.
Now, Beck is stating that the whole agenda of the progressives is somehow "anything but American".
It's an utterly astonishing claim. Now, according to Beck, it is not American to want certain things.
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5 comments:
there is no way in hell i would ever vote for someone who says i'm not a real American. not that i would have voted for palin in the first place
No-one is asking anyone to vote for somebody who would state, "I am not a real American". No American would ever say such a thing, no matter which party they support.
My point is how do Beck and Palin get to decide who a "real" American is?
"I think the days when people vote for Democrats or Republicans no matter what -- you know, if it's an R or a D, I'm just gonna pull it -- I think we're seeing the end of those days."
You see this kind of nonsense mostly from Republicans, who seem to forget that, if true, it can cut both ways. And it does seem to be true that people affilliate themselves less with parties than they once did, but I think this has to do less with being (or not being) "American" than it does with the toxicity of our only two viable parties.
sarah palin did want my vote. she also said I wasn't a "real American". Because I live in the fake America of Seattle, WA.
Merlallen,
I take your point regarding Palin. I had misinterpreted what you were saying.
Dave,
The Republicans do forget that this cuts both ways. Beck is waiting for everyone to wake up from the "mistake" of electing Obama.
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