Glenn Beck
10/23/2014
Mark Steyn is one of the smartest commentators around today, and Glenn had the opportunity to chat with him about his new book on radio today. Mark believes the battleground needs to be in culture, arguing liberals focus their efforts there while conservatives only care about an election every other November and are surprised nothing changes…
…GLENN: So what happens next? Let’s talk about nuts and bolts. Let’s talk about the sporting event that is politics and the election. Okay. So I want to know a couple things. What happens, in your opinion to this election? Does it — and does it even matter? What happens to the presidential election? And would you want to be president of the United States with all the damage that has been done and the wreckage that has yet to be reconciled?
MARK: Well, that last one is a terrible — we’re approaching the stage where this president has outspent two and a third centuries of his — he’s run up more debt than two and a third centuries of presidents combined. And whoever succeeds him is going to have to be serious about the implications of that.
I’ve listened to you for years. And you’re absolutely right that — when the choice is between people who want to go off a cliff full-throttle and somebody else who says, no, let’s go off the cliff in third gear, that doesn’t make any difference to how you land when you’re at the bottom. You’re still dead.
And I would like a real choice, and I would like someone who is willing to move the meter. At the end of my book, I write about a couple of contemporary figures and a far more remote one. About Reagan, Thatcher, and William Wilberforce who was an obscure backbencher who got slavery abolished, which was a feature of life across the entire planet for all societies. And they didn’t take a focus group. And they didn’t run the numbers. They actually changed the way people thought. And they move — they didn’t move toward the center, as the consultants tell you to do, they moved the center toward them. And that’s what I’m looking for. So that’s what I’m looking for this November, and that’s what I’m looking for in two November’s time…
The video and transcript are at GlennBeck.com
