Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within

Gabbr.com ^ | September 12, 2009 | Frank Schaeffer

[Cricket24]

WOW! Talk about a nutcase!

[mcscott1st]

I couldn’t agree with you more!

[FredZarguna]

As a Christian, new math of the ‘60s almost destroyed my brain, too. ;o)

Can't imagine how I would've been able to learn -- let alone to teach undergrads Physics -- without that country school teacher's help. Unfortunately, they have newmathetized the whole curriculum by now. The one that probably damaged my own kids most was "creative" spelling. They struggle now with anything other than "a", "an", and "the."

Strange to me as a non-believer how tolerant Christians are of this line of absolute BS. A substantive policy disagreement with the current administration that deals directly with facts and logic is twisted by the most bizarre contortions into "racism," yet strangely no one commenting on this putative article has remarked how transparently bigoted it is. Though my own biography (and those of many of my friends) thoroughly repudiates its assumptions, it remains the case that even the characteristics attributed to Evangelicals are not (in my experience) true. The post reeks of the stench of Nazism. Substitute "Jews" where applicable, and imagine the head-bobbing of the chattering classes over its reinforcement of their idiotic suppositions about how their fantasy "Christians" think and feel.

The cries of prejudice by Leftists are now, as ever, projections of their own shortcomings.

[andy58-in-nh]

In case anyone here doubts that people are entirely capable of losing their minds, this article ought to disabuse you of the notion. Where some are driven by fear or anger to merely entertain paranoid fantasies, others create entire universes around them and then proceed to shut the door and bar the windows to all reason.

The world Mr. Schaeffer describes simply does not exist. Clinical paranoia can be that powerful, although I will leave it to others more qualified than I to offer a diagnosis. But anyone who watched the 9/12 speeches and banners and listened attentively to the participants would be hard-pressed to identify a single religious expression offered by them. There were certainly many exhortations to restore liberty and reduce the size of government and taxes, but I must have missed the part about establishing a Theocracy and repressing the non-believers. Perhaps it happened during a bathroom break.

Mr. Schaeffer apparently sees religious fanatics everywhere, and saw them in profusion yesterday as well. I am tempted to ask him to check under his bed, but he would begin to suspect me of complicity as well.

That's the way insane people think.

[A Navy Vet]

"In their ever-morphing plastic reality, the truth they believe at any one moment has no connection with the truth they believed at any prior moment. This is not so much hypocrisy, as it is dangerous insanity."

While I try to believe that bleeding-heart liberals conduct their lives out of their misguided need for what they believe to be "fair" to all humans, you make a very good point about how twisted their psyche can be. They take their beliefs to a point of psychosis.

Their thought processes seem to come from an emotional level, rather than an intellectual level (old news there). Even those media pundits who "attempt" to be intellectually honest on occasion, always seem to revert back to what makes them feel good or look good in the eyes of the "downtrodden".

However, there is some upside of late. The Internet, talk radio, and Fox news is looking beyond victim status and talking about what works to continue our USA standard of living. There may be hope - I doubt it. The system may be broken beyond repair. See ya on the other side...if I live that long.

[A Navy Vet]

"I was talking to a lady who works where I bank and she said that her son voted for him, and he was sorry that he did. My response was, he should have thought before he voted, once you pull the trigger on a gun, all the sorrys in the world will not bring the bullet back."

That is probably the best metaphor I've ever read about this Obambi matter. I'm reading and hearing almost every day about "buyer's remorse" with this arrogant community organizer nobody.