I have a preference for short "diaries", and I don't necessarily need to see "references" about everything anyone says. So I'll simply state my opinions here, with no references. If anyone doesn't like this, then "screw it". I don't care.
America is partly in what I call "disarray" because of people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and the many other blowhards who spout off similar crap. The problem I have with those people isn't so much what they are saying (that's bad enough in itself). My problem with, especially these two guys, is this: follow me for a minute below.
America is in disarray partly because there are many stupid people out there. Let me repeat that: there are a lot of stupid people out there.
Get it?
Who takes advantage of stupid people? Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. That's who.
Why do I say that? Because each of them are not only entertainers, but they are politicians. Think about that for a minute. What does that mean?
What it means is that they confuse people. Why? Because, on the one hand they are in the business of entertaining their audiences with a motive of making money. On the other hand, they act like politicians running for office. Yet they aren't running for office.
There has to be a word for what they are doing. Whatever they are doing, and whatever word there might be for it, it is something relatively new...mixing being entertainers with being a faux politicians while at the same time seemingly being neither one.
Now then, throw into their mix, a massive number of stupid people who suck up to their crap, and you wind up with what is now called "Tea Baggers". And more! More means throwing America into disarray, in my humble opinion.
Those two guys ought to be tried for treason and put in jail. Not only tried for treason, but for exploiting stupid people.
That's my take on it. Like it or not.
Have a nice day.