Building Walls

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Glenn Beck Dreams about Building a Wall:

You can have one side of the mountains, you can have the other side. You can have California and everything in it. Just leave us alone. We’re going to build a huge wall because you’re going to try to steal everything…Within five years – this is why we’ll have to have a wall – they’ll turn their people against us. We can give them all the best stuff. Within five years they’ll be blaming it on us and they will be turning their people against the people behind the wall saying ‘It’s they’re fault. They did it to us!’ We’ll be so unbelievably prosperous that they won’t have any idea what to do.

The right is growing more and more insulated. Sharron Angle, Jan Brewer, and Christine O'Donnell seem determined to get out their message mainly through the sympathetic outlet of Fox News, a resource that enables timid conservatives to experience the opposition only through the comforting filter of other right wingers.



This is understandable given the extreme trajectory of the right over the past twenty years. No longer is the conservative movement accurately represented by rational and well-informed conservatives. Instead, they have Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. This puts the right at a disadvantage in debate because reality and principle are just not on their side, as Jan Brewer’s recent encounter with Terry Goddard revealed.

Heck, forget Jan Brewer. Remember Sean Hannity accusing economist Robert Kuttner of “spewing garbage” for saying the economy was in dire straits -- just before the crash of 2008?

Remember what happened back in January when the Republicans had a Q&A with Obama in Baltimore?

Fox News cut away well before the end of this Q&A. Whether you agreed with him or not, the President was plainly knowledgeable, polite, and able to think on his feet. That’s not the narrative that either Fox News or the G.O.P desired.

So, given the right's growing tendency to squeeze its eyes shut, clap its hands over its ears, and yell "LALALALALYERADOODYHEAD!" in response to any argument, it makes sense that Glenn Beck would daydream about right wingers taking over a few states and shutting themselves up behind a wall. This, he believes, will leave them free to build some sort of free market utopia that will inspire the envy of progressives everywhere. They'd need the wall to keep out the vicious hordes of starving liberals who would try to break into their laissez-faire paradise and steal their stuff and ruin everything.

They could call it an “‘anti-progressive protection wall” and it might look like something like this:



Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes