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Glenn Beck discusses Stuart Chase's "The Road We Are Traveling" at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Summer Retreat on March 21, 2014. (Image Source: Vimeo screengrab)
During Glenn Beck's rousing weekend speech at the Summer Retreat for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, when discussing the fact that Americans do not know their own history, he pulled out a book with a shockingly prescient message.
Beck noted:
"The President when he went to run for his second term...put out a video and it was on and then it was off. And it went away quickly because when I saw the title I said, "Oh I know that title." And it was pulled within the first day."
What was the title of the video, and why might it have been pulled?
Glenn Beck discusses Stuart Chase's "The Road We Are Traveling" at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Summer Retreat on March 21, 2014. (Image Source: Vimeo screengrab)
The video was titled "The Road We've Traveled." And if that sounds familiar, it should. In 2012 Glenn Beck exposed the Obama documentary as being titled and themed quite similarly to a book written by Stuart Chase -- who coined the phrase "New Deal" -- in 1945 titled "The Road We Are Traveling. 1914-1942." The book lays bare the entire progressive agenda, which continues its march forward today.
At the time, TheBlaze noted:
"For Beck, "the road we are traveling" is not only the embodiment of the Obama administration and every goal it is realizing, but is 'yet another knife in the back of anyone who doesn’t know [the history]… and a wink to anyone who does.'"
During the speech while paraphrasing a particularly eerie passage from the book, Beck stated:
"We can't go back. We can't go back on what we have started on the road we're traveling...soon we will have something I would like to call "X." It's the first intelligent attempt to understand what we are doing...a "managerial revolution." So in other words, nobody's actually going to be running the country. We'll just have a bunch of...middle managers. The EPA will be running [the country]...he says it's too late to turn back [this is in 1945]...we're moving from free enterprise to "X." Now he didn't want to call it anything else. Before they were calling it "fascism." They were calling it "socialism." They were calling it "communism." But because these words were all discredited he called it "System X."
And what is "System X?" Here's what Chase says, a list that Glenn quoted from [link ours]:
After reciting from the list, Glenn summarized his point: "It's clear to see what we're doing, if you are a communist with patience [as Beck defined progressives]...They've said it."
For those who have read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' 1848 title "The Communist Manifesto," the principles Stuart Chase outlined almost should seem familiar, as they dovetail nicely with Marx and Engels' 10 planks of Communism.
Be sure to watch Glenn's entire compelling speech below.