Why Glenn Beck is good for the left
I can’t listen for too long to Glenn Beck, because the last time I tried, he had some words on the chalkboard with arrows between them, then decided to erase whatever word was at the top and replace it with “OBAMA.” Yeah, because political concepts are interchangable. Clearly SOCIALIAM = FASCISM = COMMUNISM = MARXISM.
But I had a conversation with a coworker the other day about, among other things the fact that the United Nations assesses the USA the most money in dues. This coworker brought up an interesting point about Glenn Beck. Beck closes his show (apparently?) with a phrase similar to “every day, I find myself becoming more libertarian.”
Heck it’s even in this transcript on Beck’s own website where he talks with Bob Barr:
[Beck:] Bob, I appreciate you joining me, sir. I’m kind of in a quandary here. I don’t know exactly what to do and I find myself becoming more and more libertarian every day because I just don’t see us solving any of our problems unless we solve our problems here at home first, which is spending out of control, you know, getting the dollar back on track and then also going for our own energy.
So why is good for the left? Because the libertarians are already an established third party. Beck himself and many will no doubt vote for Republican candidates in the 2010 elections, but a good number of his listeners and viewers are going to look in to the libertarian movement, which may very well appeal to them. They sure as hell won’t vote Democrat (the party of on-demand abortions and forced sodomy), so the libertarian party will take from where these people would normally vote — that is, the Republican party.
I don’t think it’s going to be as bad as a complete vote splitting situation, but I think it’s going to hurt Republicans’ chances of winning as many seats as they want to in the midterms.
GO GLENN!