Glen Beck wants to take us back to 9-12-01.

He wants us all to remember what we felt like on 9-12-01 and to feel that way again.

What does that mean?
Let's think about just who we were on 9-12.


We were a terrified nation.

We expected random violence and more attacks looming just around the corner.
An LA Times poll taken in November 2001 showed that 20% of Americans believed they would be hurt or killed in a terrorist attack and that 25% of Americans believed they would be victims of a bio-terrorist attack.
Think about that!
Many of us weren't just convinced that a terrorist attack somewhere in our country was imminent, but rather that a terrorist attack on our own physical bodies was imminent.


We were an ignorant nation.

We didn't know who had attacked us, why they had attacked us and when or if they would attack next.
We didn't know who deserved revenge, but we wanted to dish it out anyway.
We needed to bomb somebody "back to the stone age" or nuke somebody "into glass."
We had the vague idea that those deserving of retaliation were in the Middle East.
Maybe Iraq.
Maybe Afghanistan, wherever that was.
Maybe Syria.
In October 2001, 83% of Americans supported war with Afghanistan, according to a CBS/NYTimes poll.
Ignorance.


We were a depressed nation.

A Pew Research Center survey found that 8 out of 10 women and 6 out of 10 men were depressed immediately after 9-11.
The people who were interviewed described their "nightmares, dissociative reactions, impaired concentration, exaggerated startle responses, panic attacks and shattered self- confidence."
These are all symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and depression.
So basically, 80% of U.S. women and 60% of U.S. men were experiencing symptoms of trauma and depression after 9-11.


Glen Beck wants us to return to these feelings we had on 9-12.
"The 9-12 Project is designed to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the greatest nation ever created. That same feeling – that commitment to country is what we are hoping to foster with this idea. We want to get everyone thinking like it is September 12th, 2001 again."

Sorry, Glen.
Fear, ignorance and depression are not "commitment to country."
Fear, ignorance and depression have created your imaginary world of all-powerful "czars," communist conspiracies, Kenyan birth certificates, "Afro-Leninsim" and death panels.

President Obama was elected on a platform of HOPE: the antithesis of fear, ignorance and depression.
Drag your followers back to 9-12-01 and have a big ole party in the name of fear, ignorance and depression.
But tomorrow is 9-12-09 and that's where the rest of us will be.

Let's wrap Glenn Beck in visqueen and duct tape. I know I'd feel better about the country.

:sarcasm:

...regardless of the darkness of his heart or the depth of his ignorance.

But presumably that's not what he has in mind.

Bryant

You raving, paranoid lunatic, you.

So if that's what he wants then that's how he should behave.

and as much as it irks me to think that I might agree with Beck, I never felt more "American" than I did on 9/12. Fear never entered my mind, although I was living in DC at the time.

It was about 9/20 or so, once Bush started fearmongering and f***ing things up, that I got disgusted.

And that we can't question the commander in chief during a time of war?

Too bad--ain't posting it here.

As were a lot of people.

Sorry, don't want to go back to that day, sanka vera mooch.

I seriously doubt that being allowed.



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We were unified around the President (what was it, a 90% approval rating?) and his policies. Now that the President is a Democrat, there's no way he wants us unified.

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There is something seriously wrong with this dumb fuck.