Glenn Beck Knows Why
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Glenn Beck Knows Why
If you live in America this week, you've probably been asking "why"? And if you're a normal American, you're doing so with a heavy heart and wondering if this country will ever take responsibility for itself enough to shiv the gun lobby and finally stand up and say we'd rather our children not be mowed down by bullets at school.
But of course, if you are a Republican politician or pundit, you are trying to find the answer to literally any and every other question besides those things, because if you ever looked down and really stared at the blood on your hands, if you ever experienced that kind of self-awareness, you might never recover.
So here is Glenn Beck. Are you a conservative Republican and you are trying to figure out why? Listen to Glenn Beck. He knows why.
GLENN BECK: Do you know in the 1960s, a kid could go in and buy a handgun and I mean a kid. I could have sent my kid with a note, that said, “Hey, I want him to pick up this gun for me and a box of bullets.” And I'm not even sure you needed the note.
The ... good old days?
BECK: So why weren't kids killing everybody? I don't know.
Wonkette correction: Glenn Beck does not know why. Delete blog post.
Oh wait, yes he does, undelete, undelete!
BECK: Because, as sick as we were there, the system, the center held because there was something that was uniting us to truth and decency. That's gone.
Where did it go, Glenn?
BECK: All the world's problems, all of America's problems, they are not disconnected from each other. What the Fed has done is tied right directly to the school.
Interest rates ... is why mass shootings?
BECK: Wokeness? We're tied directly to.
Wokeness is why?
BECK: Hatred? Tied directly to it. CRT, bathrooms that anybody can use, all of these things are all tied together.
People going to the bathroom is why? Critical Race Theory is why?
BECK: They are not separate. And until you're willing to have that conversation, the rest of it is bull crap.
Everything else is bull crap! But the things Glenn mentioned are why. We have the Fed and the bathroom and the Critical Race Theory and the hatred. These are all why.
Glenn is right that several of the things he mentioned are related. (Interest rates are the outlier.) You see, BY FAR most politically motivated murders are committed by white male supremacists. All mass shootings are committed with guns, and that's obviously one of the "whys" Glenn doesn't want to talk about, but when he starts bitching about "wokeness" and "CRT" and how the potty is a danger zone, those manufactured mediocre loser white boy outrages do indeed motivate rightwing extremist mass murder.
Of course, Glenn probably doesn't want us to talk about that, because this week's mass murder wasn't explicitly politically motivated like last week's mass murder and so many of the others. And that sucks, because Glenn is almost there when it comes to understanding why.
But again also it's also guns.
Because whether a mass shooter is a diaper-shitting Great Replacement Theory weenus who's been radicalized by the internet or by Tucker or whatever else, or whether it's somebody who's become a sick murdering fuck for some other reason, none of them would have been able to do it so easily if they didn't have such easy access to alllllll theeeeeese fuuuuuuuucking guuuuuuuuuuns .
Yes, we know Glenn said back in his day your mom poured herself a bucket of Scotch and drove all the children without seatbelts down to the store at the bottom of the hill and said "Sonny! Go inside and get me a pack of Vantage 100s and some liquor and five guns and one-hundred bullets and a bunch of new underpants!" And you did it. Because you weren't woke .
But Glenn is just babbling and can fuck off, so OPEN THREAD.
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Glenn Beck Knows Why
I am a New York Jew and grew up with liberal principles as a given. Any Republican neighbors - who were all non-college - were just assumed to be wrong. It was a bubble but it is still how the city is. Minority and non-Orthodox Jewish voters are to the Left and blue collar Whites and Orthodox Jews are to the Right, and fortunately we have the numbers.
I certainly accept the power issue as a motivator, but non-Hispanics have to understand that there is also a strong current of "I and mine are here" that makes many Hispanic voters look at immigrants as interlopers. There is also the fear of being classed with them. We Jews experienced that in the early 20th century, when German Jews who had made their place here opposed the entry of Eastern European Jews both out of embarassment at their ostentatious Jewishness and rougher ways and becuse of fear that anti-Semites would now also attack them.
It is a combination of wanting to be ensconsed as they feel that they have earned and actual fear that it can be stripped away. That then translates to Hispanic border officers beating immigrants and Hispanic voters voting for power for Whites or for Hispanics whio serve Whites. It is seen as self-preservation.
The irony is that, even with gerrymandering, they probably have the numbers to oust the White power structure and bring in better policies on health and education and wages, but they self-limit because the status quo may be a devil but it is the devil they know.
Let me just point out one other thing, which I think goes to Dem failures on messaging to this community. "Latinx" is a construction of white academics whose overriding concern is purity on gender but Latino and Latina voters prefer to call themselves that and did not ask for "x" and do not use it. It therefore acts as a distancing issue rather than an encompassing one. As another Wonker noted when I commented that "people with uteruses" and "pregnant people" rather than "women" when reaching out on reproductive rights is very off-putting to average, well, women whom we need to reach: "Democrats have to learn to talk like normal people."
The main issue is to listen to community workers who understand the nuances of how a community feels. Good intentions from outsiders will always fall flat.
OK - gotta go.
Honestly, I don’t know what term to use anymore. I usually go with Hispanic but that is apparently not correct either. I just don’t want to make anyone feel bad or not included. I spent 8 years in NYC. It felt like coming home even though we’ve been San Franciscans since the Gold Rush (which incidentally is the Jewish line of the family…first Wells Fargo agent in California, then the Irish during the Civil War, my Italian grandfather arriving when he was 14 in the 1890s, followed by the old Penn stock running away from his family in 1900….the melding of the Catholics, Protestants, and Jews was a rather volatile mix that led to a lot of atheists. I was raised by my grandmother who raised by her grandmother (who was the one who came as a child during the Civil War)…so the family stories are all vivid to me). Anyway, I loved NYC and am so sad that I can’t go back because I couldn’t afford to live there. I always thought it would be the perfect place to retire because you don’t need a car, great medical, and lots of places to shop (or get delivery). I was there for the 80s. I don’t even recognize it anymore. I’m staying in Texas but will find some place in the East that is not as hateful as this place. People who are openly Dem are routinely threatened here.