Glenn Beck Dictionary

Glenn Beck University is NOT an accredited University. It is a series of classes that anyone can “take” for a fee. It is an “unaccredited online education program.” Judging by the use of terminology by those in GlennBeckistan, I hesitate to even mention it as an “education program.” It can be found here: http://www.glennbeck.com/becku/

What I really wanted to discuss today is this misuse of terminology, mainly by the New Right, the Teabaggers, Libertarians and everyone else marching around angry that a Black President wants to give people health care.

The term “Progressive” is being thrown a lot.  I fear that many people do not even know what a Progressive is, or what Progressivism really was.  The Progressive Era started in the end of the 1800′s and lasted until the 1920′s.  Progressivism is marked by several characteristics:

• Progressives were against corruption.  They had “muckrakers” that exploited corporate and government waste and abuse.  They stood against any form of corruption.
• Progressives believed in education, science and technology.
• Progressives believed in the power of democracy over the elite.
• Progressives were for Prohibition, and wanted to alter the Constitution to promote ‘morality.’
• Progressives believed in government regulations against monopolies and unfair wage practices.

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That would be as silly as loving it

On Patriotism:

“You hate America, don’t you?” she said.

“That would be as silly as loving it,” I said.  “It’s impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn’t interest me.  It’s no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can’t think in terms of boundaries.  Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies.  I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul.  Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.”

This has been a quote I have been fond of for most of my life.  The author was a WWII Veteran that was captured by the Nazi’s and held prisoner in Dresden.  He was a POW during the bombing of Dresden.

Here are a few direct quotes from this man who fought for the freedoms of the United States:

“By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East?” he wrote. “Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”

“I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka ‘Christians,’ and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities,or ‘PPs.’”

This American author praised men such as Eugene Debs and Trotsky.  (Both Socialists.)

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