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If we don't act reasonably now, we are going to have, I've said it even, we will be at war with Islamists, we will in our own country. So when you hear a politician or anybody on the left talk about somebody on the right, or the right talk about somebody on the left, and they say they're the enemy, they're the enemy within, you should understand that automatically to people puts you in the state of understanding that this is life or death. This is a final battle. I hope to deal with it one way, but if we have to, we'll deal with it another.
>> What is America's biggest problem? Let's listen to Glenn Beck as he lays it all out.
>> I want to talk to you about, you know, you've heard the phrase death by a thousand paper cuts. This is death by a thousand shrugs. We are entering what I believe is either the end phase or the beginning phase of of a story. Okay, might be the last phase of a republic. Uh, and if it is, it's the most dangerous yet. But looking back into history to see if it's the last step of an empire or a republic, or the first step into real darkness, I don't know. But it's what I would like to call moral shrugging. And with that comes stacked justifications. I don't know if I'll get to that one here, but let me start with moral shrugging. All of our problems, all of them can be turned around pretty easily if we choose. If we all would go, that one matters. I see that lines with principles. That one really matters. Okay. Outrage can be corrected. Debate can be had. Lines can be drawn. But what's killing us right now is indifference. Indifference is anesthesia that allows a free society to be operated on without ever waking up. What we're seeing, what we're sensing right now is really critical. Citizens are being murdered and raped in our own streets. Let me, let me just give you the reaction. Um, what was it? Um, play, uh, the cut that I just heard. I think it was cut nine. This is a Chicago alderwoman who's blaming, um, who's blaming, uh, Sheridan Gordon Gorman for her own death at the hands of an illegal. Listen to what this older woman says. What from what I've been told so far, right, from what police know, from from speaking to the students who were with her, um, it seems she might have that as they were just out, you know, people go out to the beach all the time, right? And they go out on the pier, they walk around. So the, the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally. Um,
>> Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. So, this is not indifference.
>> Mhm. This is worse. This is worse. This is justification. Listen what she's saying. Here's a Chicago alderwoman who's now just saying might have startled somebody with a gun. You're not supposed to have a gun in Chicago. What do you mean startled somebody with a gun? When was the last time you heard anybody on the left just pass by someone with a gun and didn't blame it on the gun and the person with the gun? Well, here's one. So, clear justification of what happened. Wrong place, wrong time. You're blaming her for being at a place where she should be safe. Wrong place, wrong time. You know who was there in the wrong place at the wrong time? The illegal. Shouldn't have been there. Should have been in a completely different country. So we have this being said and then all the people that agree with these things shrugging, and quite honestly, many on our side, because we're so damn tired of it, we shrug too. Nothing's going to happen anyway. That's extraordinarily dangerous. We have corruption deep beyond this, deep beyond Watergate. Theft from the taxpayer that is bigger than all Bernie Madoff scandals ever done combined. It's been exposed. What is happening? What is happening? That was my question last night. And worse yet, why are leaders justifying it? This is not just a political problem. This is a civilizational warning light.
So last night I'm like, "Okay, so let me go back in history and see if what happens when the average Joe begins to shrug off massive corruption and the government doing things it's not supposed to do and people just like, whatever." Well, you find it when regimes of any ideology begin to believe they are in a final struggle. Something shifts. The rules change. The change, the restraints come off. The norms, the quiet agreements that hold societies together. They're no longer seen as virtues. They're seen as obstacles. Let me take you to the late stages of revolutionary movements in France. Okay, French Revolution. Suspicion alone became grounds for imprisonment. Suspicion alone, and all of the language was moral justification was survival. The result was what we call the reign of terror. And it went on and on and on at the gallows. I'm sorry, not the G, the guillotines. Russia 1917. Bolsheviks moved quickly from political opposition to political elimination. No debate, liquidation. Within a very short period of time, newspapers were shut down. Descent was criminalized. Entire categories of people laid enemies, labeled enemies of the state and killed. Happened in Germany. Same way in Iran 1979. By the way, notice all of these have a collective and/or Marxist element to all of these revolutions. 197, 1979, the revolution was sold broadly. Different factions, okay? Different hopes. You had the students, Marxists, and then you had the clerical hardliners. You had all of the people in the mosques. They all kept together. Then the allies became traitors and courts became instruments and the revolution devoured all of the Marxists. Different ideology, different languages, same pattern. When a movement believes the, listen, the stakes are existential. The opposition is not just wrong, but illegitimate and dangerous. And this might be the last chance to get it right. Then restraint is no longer rewarded. Acceleration is now. Both sides are in that situation. Both sides, we both think if the other side gets into power, we're doomed, right? We both think that this is where it's not where we are yet. It's where we could easily be in the next two election cycles, just based on what I'm seeing. Okay. What are the Democrat powers saying right now? That when they get in, there will be trials, arrests, and we have to stop these people from ever gaining power again. We have to teach them a lesson. This dehumanizing authoritarian language really began hardcore with teeth in the COVID era when doctors and nurses both said, you know, we should let these people die. We shouldn't treat these people because they won't go along with the political mandates. And it has gotten much worse. And nobody paid for that because with COVID, we cried out, but collectively the whole world went, whatever. When you're hearing language that reframes fellow citizens as threats to democracy, enemies from within, and people who must be dealt with, that's not normal political rhetoric. That's preparatory language. It softens the ground. And let me take one of those. The enemies are within. I use that language when I tell you the Islamists are here. When I say the Islamists are here, the enemy was is already here. It's already within our gates. What does that imply? What am I saying with that? We're dead. If we don't pay attention to this and get this ideology out, we're dead. What else does that imply? That if we don't act reasonably now, we are going to have, I've said it even, we will be at war with Islamists. We will in our own country. So when you hear a politician or anybody on the left talk about somebody on the right, or the right talk about somebody on the left, and they say they're the enemy, they're the enemy within, you should understand that automatically to people puts you in the state of understanding that this is life or death. This is a final battle. I hope to deal with it one way, but if we have to, we'll deal with it another.
Then when legal systems begin to be discussed as tools to correct political outcomes, that's a whole another shift. When speech becomes something to regulate, not because it's false, but because it's dangerous to the preferred outcome, you no longer have a debate over ideas. You are in a debate over permission. And that is no longer a free country.
>> Thank you, Mr. Glenn Beck, for sharing with us your thoughts.
So here we are in the 21st century, and you asked the question, what is America's biggest problem? And what you come up with basically comes down to two words, perhaps. It's called apathy and complacency. As you use the expression shrugging it off, and you, you use the example of that murder that happened in Chicago, how they just shrugged it off as if in the wrong place, in the wrong time, versus pointing the fingers to really where is the problem? The problem wasn't the victim. The problem was the one who committed this hideous crime. And this is, this has seemed to have become a pattern. And perhaps this is the price of freedom because we have spent the last 80 years post-World War II in a new world, and we kind of fell into a level of apathy and complacency and taking things for granted. And we have a few generations now away from the World War II that have no clue of what life was like in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and even 70s. Never mind getting into the 80s, the generation which we refer to as the millennials, the Gen Z's, and various different labels. But the reality is that we have to wake up. We have to wake up and realize, and you know, and we go back to the Genesis, to the beginning of life. In the book of Genesis, literally when God created the world, it said that God created first evening, and only then came daytime. So God first created darkness. So darkness seems to be in a creation of its own. But as God gave us darkness, he gave us the antidote to darkness, and that is light. So when there is darkness in this world, because yes, there is darkness into this world. Why does God want darkness to be in this world? We don't understand. We do understand that God created this world. The intentions of God, as brought down in the books of mysticism, was to be able to make this earth a dwelling place for spirituality. That God fused holiness, divinity with materialism, with physicality. And God created us human beings and gave us the two fighting forces for our attention and our conduct. You have the dark forces, the evil forces, the evil inclination, and then you have the godly inclination, the spiritual inclination. And they are both at war with each other. It's like dark and lightness and light together that are competing with each other. But what's very interesting about the nature of light that when you have a room full of darkness, even a tiny match pushes away so much darkness. A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness. There is darkness in the world. The world has a shadow of darkness hovering over us from the evil side of the world. But with that darkness, God is also giving us the ability to transform the darkness, the ability to bring light into the world. And this is our journey is to be able to recognize and not be apathetic and complacent or shrug it off that it's not darkness. It is darkness. There is darkness out there. There is evil out there. We need to understand it. We need to recognize it. We need to appreciate that it exists. It's part of life. It's part of God's creation. The evil is here. The darkness is here. But we don't get paralyzed. We don't get stifled. We don't get frozen by the darkness. But on the contrary, the darkness empowers us and energizes us so that we can become the light. We can dispel the darkness. Not only does light dispel the darkness, but light transforms the darkness. And thus is our journey in this world. So Glenn Beck asks the question, are we now on on the verge of an unprecedented future, or are we going down to the abyss? And that's again the difference between light and darkness. And the answer is, it's up to us. It's up to us who has been blessed with a godly soul that's revealed that each one of us, when we recognize and we realize that we are God's ambassador in this world to make this world a better place, that we are actually the lamplighters. We are the ones out there who's going to light up the world. And this is what God told the Jewish people at Mount Sinai when Judaism began as a religion. And Judaism is the mother of all religions as it dates back 3,337 years ago. God said, "I want you to be a light unto the world. Be a light unto the nations." What God is intimating is that there's going to be a lot of darkness out there, but we need to be the torchbearers. We need to hold the torch. We need to hold the light, a light of godliness, the light of spirituality, the light of Torah. Torah comes from the word Torah or which which comes together with light. That Torah, the Bible is about bringing light into the world. And a little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness. And when there is darkness, we push away the darkness. We transformed the darkness with light. And this is what I believe that Glenn Beck is reflecting upon that we in America cannot slide anymore back into a comfort of complacency and shrugging things off. We need to call it as it is. There is evil out there. We have a nation. We have a regime right now in Iran who is chanting death to America. They really mean it. They want to kill every single American. No matter if they're in the United States homeland or if they're abroad, they want to kill us. And right after that, they want to kill the Israelis, kill the Jews, death to death to America, death to Jews, death to Israel. That is their mantra. That is their chanting. So, we need to realize that that's a formidable darkness. That's a real darkness that's out there. And we need to be able to dispel it. How do we dispel the darkness? How do we transform the darkness into into light? Is by being the light. And how do we become a light is by doing acts of goodness and kindness. By talking positivity, by acting positivity, by studying the Bible, by connecting with God, talking to God, bringing God into the conversation. Any form of positivity, of kindness, of happiness, of joy, of embrace, of compliments, of warmth, of love, embracing, hugging, kissing, just being there for each other, leaning on each other's shoulders, being there for each other, regardless of race, color, or religion. Those are acts of kindness. Thing light into the world. And never underestimate your ability of you bringing light. Cuz when you act as God's ambassador to this world, when you realize that the day you were born, God said the world can no longer exist without you, that you mean something, you have a purpose, you have a mission in this world. And that mission is to bring light into your home, into your environment, to your workplace, and to the world. And never underestimate the power of your light. Because your light can not only dispel so much darkness, it can transform the darkness. And as a mamand says that every person should always consider themselves as if they are on a balancing scale, and one extra good deed will tilt the scale in our favor and bring redemption to the whole world and ultimately bring us to the messianic times as brought in Isaiah 53, where the world will be transformed that everyone is going to live in peace together. No longer will there be war, hunger, starvation, illness, but rather you're going to bring in a herald in a, a messianic times for the coming of the Messiah that's coming very soon. Because when after the darkest time of night, then comes daybreak, the crack of dawn. And that's coming upon us. We're so close. Let's just do one more random act of goodness and kindness. Let's be the light into this world, and we'll definitely transform the darkness. God bless you.