Glenn Beck's Fantasy Island

On Glenn Beck’s program this past week, he unveiled his plan or at least some of his ideas for a libertarian commune.  Maybe that isn’t the best term for it, a fantasy land would be more fitting.

Beck, and many people in this country live in a fantasy of America.  America to them is not a country, a place where real people live and work and try to better themselves.  They exist in a fictional place created by two hundred years of historical fiction being taught in the schools.  Two hundred years of one side of the story being told.  Two hundred years of that story being watered down and then glorified as if it were true.  They have their own version of the founding fathers.  They have their own version of the constitution and what it means.  Many of these people have not read the documents they endear or the writings of the men they hold to such high esteem. 

I love this country.  I love the real story of America, with a capital “a.”  I love learning about the lives of real people that have shaped it.  Not just the people that you can read about in any high school survey textbook, but the ones that history almost overlooked.  Those are the people that really made this country what it is. 

People that would live in Beck’s Fantasy do not know America like I do.  These are the same people that go to the tea party rallies and wear tri-corner hats.  Their choice of dress is indicative of when they stopped paying attention to history.  I will be interested to see if Beck’s fantasy becomes a reality.

These people vote, and elections have consequences.