Here's a question. Has there ever been a time in our national history when so many people have been so crazy?
The immediate impetus for this question? This:
Glenn Beck plans to bring soccer balls and hot meals to migrant children this month, his career be damned.
“I’ve never taken a position more deadly to my career than this — and I have never, ever taken a position that is more right than this,” an emotional Beck said Tuesday on his show on TheBlaze TV.
“Everybody is telling me I’m seeing subscriptions down; I’m seeing Mercury One donations down,” he added. “I’m getting violent emails from people who say, you know, I’ve ‘betrayed the Republic.’ Whatever.“
That's right. We live in a country in which Glenn Beck is not crazy enough for a large number of people. Think about that.
Of course, you have to actually be immersed in a society in order to fully appreciate how crazy it is, so it is difficult for us to compare. We have very often, if not always, been a country plagued by cognitive dissonance. If you are a history buff, as I am, you have no doubt read the complaints by thankfully now-dead Americans, usually from the South, that one or more actions of the British or, later, the American, government threatened to reduce them to slavery. These statements were made with no apparent appreciation for the irony, coming as they did from slaveholders. So, that's some crazy right there, and that's only scratching the surface of the irrationality of the slaveowners. Then again, at no previous time in our history would any Supreme Court have ruled that a corporation can have a religion. That is some sort of crazy, so we are definitely in the running for craziest ever.
Anyway, my heart's not bleeding for Glenn, liberal though I am. For truly was it said, (disregarding the part about God):
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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