What Glenn Beck is saying this morning is extremely dangerous

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38. The Tribulation, the persecution and killing of Christians in Revelations by the anti-Christ Obama.

That is a powerful narrative that is engrained into millions of children and the GOP has found a way to harness that belief.

The evidence is all around us, they say, from climate change to oil spills, sexuality they call unnatural, murders, drugs, this and that and on and on. You cannot remove this from the subconscious of most of them.

Talk radio and television preys upon these things continuously with psychological tools. They see things happening in the real world and call it fulfillment of prophecy.

It means just what Beck says it means, store goods, surround yourself with believers, reject all others as of satan, then arm yourself for the coming attacks, get as far away as you can from any kind of government.

Most of these folks don't have a strong grasp of scripture but are addicted to media. So it begins, 'accused of horrible things,' lies will be told about Christian leaders, and 'destroy us' is sending Christians to FEMA camps and next the slaughter of Christians.

Thus he inoculates the right wingers from any facts that go against the narrative. This is Conspiracy Theory at its most effective, since the storyline has existed for centuries and all he has to do is add to it.

Beck loves to focus on Nazis and the Holocaust to hide behind those victims and get that anxiety going here. 'Get out of your comfort zone' means to become a Christian Nationalist, secede from the USA, the only way to live while the forces of darkness (in more than one way) take over Earth.

Alex Jones and the NWO, same thing. It's all the same, all the way to the 'Zionist Bankster Cabal' stuff, that comes straight out of the old 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' pushed by Third Reich, Stormfront, etc.

He's 'preaching to the choir.'