Glenn Beck

'We cannot as a nation survive much longer. We must take a page from our own history at the Alamo and “draw a line in the sand.” We must decide who we are, what we are capable of and look to the heavens to chart our course.   Do we return to the ideas of the past or do we continue West to the yet unrealized and unfulfilled promises laid out in our Founding ideals? We must choose as individuals and then put those choices into action."
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/01/04/glenn-beck-fundamental-transformation/

"We cannot as a nation survive much longer."  By "we" he means the USA.  Not Sudan. Not Pakistan.


But he is not an extremist masquerading as a news commentator.  The people of Vermont and Minnesota, debating questions of taxation, entitlement and services, can draw what lesson from the Alamo?  Why not draw our lesson from the first time Kit Carson conquered California (oops, where is that Declaration of War?)


If we continue "west", do we not arrive in Beijing or North Korea?


" the yet unrealized and unfulfilled promises laid out in our Founding ideals" - this could mean anything - but it does sound as though there is cause for getting down that antique musket, some flints and dry powder ...


But this is not some nut case pandering to the worst in people through network radio and network television.  He's just an entertainer.  By the way, GB has it that the 2011 Arizona assassin "chose" to be a paranoid schizophrenic.  That will comes as news to a great many Americans struggling with a 19-to-21 year-old child diagnosed with schizophrenia and the few with grown children stricken with a paranoid variant of what is a disease with a genetic component.


I grant that Rachel Maddow can be tendentious - but Glenn Beck is not mouthing extremist rhetoric.  The nation is in peril: we must act!  He's only being reasonable.  Now let's check those gold futures ...