Beck: "The republic and the progressive movement cannot coexist" and "are diametrically opposed to each other"

You are confusing the terms, just like Beck. He also continues to confuse communism with the system of government which was practiced in the old Soviet Union. Two different things. No industrialized country has ever successfully practiced a true system of communism. Human nature pretty much prevents it from ever happening.

Many people confuse the term "neo-conservative" with conservatism. In fact, neo-conservatism is a political ideology which is based upon the beliefs of Leon Trotsky, a Marxist. Every time Beck talks about Marxism, I wonder if he's refused to be in the studio with Bill Kristol, John Bolton and Charles Krauthammer, neo-cons all and by extension, Marxists.

Pigeonholing political ideologies into the current "us v. them" game of Fox and hate talk radio is very tricky. Everything isn't black and white.

Nobody lover Stalin. That's modern-day RW revisionist history b*llsh!t. A deal was made with Stalin so we could get rid of HITLER, and maintain peace after the war. It's call a COMPROMISE which is the kind of thing reasonable people realioze you sometimes have to do. Only the black-and-white thinking of the modern American right comes close to suggesting that a grudging compromise somehow amounts to "love." There was NOTHING Stalinist about Roosevelt.

What's more, it is the progressives of ANY AGE, in ANY PLACE, going back to the beginning of TIME that have moved society forward. And their opposition hasn't changed much: Conservatives have always been represented by the CHURCH, and the entrenched GOVERNMENT and ECONOMIC interests. (And any poor, ignorant sheep that can be duped of scared into going along with those entrenched powers.)

So whether it's Obama, Roosevelt, Jefferson, Martin Luther, Galileo or CHRIST, it's always been the same story: Not until two or three generations later do the conservtaives finally realize they were WRONG, and society moves forward. Of course, they then immediately start resisting the next step on the road of societal progress.

Modern progressives use the same principles that progrssives have ALWAYS used, EVERYWHERE. Fogure out What's wrong, and figure out how to fix it? (And don't assume ANYTHING is scared or untouchable... just FIX IT.) Meanwhile Conservtaives still pull back and first DENY there's any problems, then set about declaring taht EVERYTHING'S scared and so no changes can be made. That model holds true no matter where you are and when you look at it.

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Stalin was a DICTATOR. No American President or any serious American Political Party ever wanted a true dictatorship. So you're comaparison here to Stalin is absurd.

Who the hell are you talking about?

Old Con,

First understand the spectrums of political beliefs before you form your opinion.

Progressives are nothing like Communists or Marxists. Their is left and extreme left. Such as Conservative and Neo-conservative. Right and extreme right.

Obama is neither a progressive or a liberal. He is a moderate. I think he needs to be a progressive, but the neo-cons want him to stay center and then say he is a lefty to force him to your right.

Well yeah, considering the USSR didn't exist in the 1700s (nor communism for that matter).

Yes, you are quite right. He is a tireless pitchman, he really reminds me of a televangelist. I wonder how it would look if someone made a "Pastor Gas" video with him?

The reason progressives dont get as high ratings is because they spew garbage. Most people can recognize garbage when they hear it.

I fear your perfect world because I have seen it in reality in places like Cuba, N. Korea, Soviet Russia, China, Tibet, ect...

"He picked that up here, Irony. I made a remark yesterday that I learned all about communism in junior high and high school. He trolls for ideas here."

He is very thin-skinned. I am quite sure that he looks at the stuff written about him. I wonder though, does he comment? Could he be one of our trolls? Could he be one of the ones we don't suspect because he pretends to be something else? With the glories of the internet, he could. By the way, it isn't me. I'm a really bad liar, so I tend to tell the truth because it is easier than lying.

Speaking of Beck's education, or lack thereof, I found it interesting during his interview with Sarah Palin when he remarked that he and Sarah had "graduated" the same year...he didn't say "graduated from high school" , although that's what he clearly meant. It was as though he assumed her formal education had ended there, too, although I understand Palin did earn a bachelor's degree.