Glenn Beck is my kind of revolutionary

I’m a Glenn Beck fan. I know that he’s become Fox News Channel’s most notorious gadfly and that he accused Barack Obama of hating white people and regularly sheds tears on his television show, but that’s why I like him. America needs to hear voices like Glenn Beck, because if he weren’t on the air, he might do something really dangerous like run for office or actually create policy, and that’s 100 times worse than anything he’s said on the air.

Beck’s show is replete with calls for taking over or taking back the government from the evil czars that control it. Liberals go crazy when Beck talks like this and think that he’s inciting racial tensions in the country. I’m not so concerned. Whenever I hear him speak of “taking back” the government, I’m reminded of that famous 60’s song by The Last Poets about revolution. Beck fits the lyrics pretty well if you switch out the ethnic slurs:

“Glenn Beck is scared of revolution but Glenn Beck shouldn’t be scared of revolution because revolution is nothing but change and all Glenn Beck does is change.”

Guys like Glenn Beck talk revolution because they’re afraid of change, and a Democratic president that got into office on a “change” platform is a tipping point for them. But I’ve known guys like him all my life, they’re always changing with the political winds. They’re NASCAR Dads in the 1990s, “Bushies” after 9/11 and “Southpark Republicans” in the new millennium. Always angry and frustrated that things are changing in this country in a way they don’t like but too weak, emasculated and cowardly to do anything more about it than talk. Think Ed Norton’s character from “Fight Club” before he became Tyler Durden.

Of course now guys like Beck finally have their war, the one they can fight without really putting themselves in danger but can get angry about nonetheless. Terrorists want to get us, jobs aren’t secure even for the educated, the nation is drowning in debt and they have to depend on an erudite Harvard educated Black man as president to get us out of this mess. That’s a living nightmare for guys like Beck, who always believed the American dream would be theirs to manage or mangle come hell or high water. So the question is, what is there to like about a man who represents the spineless backbone that much of suburban America is made of?

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