2016: The Year That Could Change Everything

I heard this today and had to stop what I was doing to listen to it. Some people may not like Glenn but this was one hell of a good segment that had a lot of truth and meaning to it. The Audio is on the Link

http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/04/2016-the-year-that-could-change-everything/


It seems every time a presidential election rolls around, people say it’s the most important election of our lives. This year, it just happens to be true. Why? History tells us everything we need to know. This week on The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn features a four-part series on American presidential elections. Of course, all elections are important — but some more than others. In this four-part series, Glenn takes a look at four transformational elections in the last 100 years or so. These are the elections that got us where we are today. Part IV: 2016 Americans will make the most important choice in the nation’s history on November 8, 2016. Will they vote to continue on — or accelerate — a path toward socialism and big government policies? Or will they choose the paths of 1920 and 1980, back to a smaller, less intrusive government — and more freedom? What is more important to Americans in 2016 — socialistic entitlements, celebrity status or constitutional founding principles? We’ll find out this November. Listen to this segment below:

 Listen to this segment below: Listen to the Full Election Series: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors: GLENN: All week, we have been telling you about the four most important elections of the last hundred years. We started with 1912 and Woodrow Wilson. 1968. And then yesterday was 1980. Today, possibly the election that decides the fate of the republic, whether we become something a little more fascistic or we return to a constitutional republic. That year is 2016. And we tell you about it, right now. (music) GLENN: We have focused all week on the biggest and most important elections of the past 100 years. In 1912, the election of Woodrow Wilson brought America into the Progressive Era. In 1968, after 56 years of progressive policies infecting the system and a war that was dragging on thousands of miles from home, chaos had broken out into the streets of American cities. And Americans turned to a progressive Republican strongman, Richard Nixon to stop the madness. He made it worse. Got us out of the gold standard and lied. RICHARD: Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got. GLENN: The 1970s were filled with more war. The Watergate scandal, investigation, trial, and presidential resignation. Gas lines. Inflation. High-sky interest rates. Unemployment. And the humiliation of the Iranian hostage crisis. So the election of the first conservative president since Calvin Coolidge in Ronald Reagan was a welcome relief and quite literally may have saved the country. VOICE: It’s morning again in America. Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country’s history, with interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980 under the leadership of President Reagan. GLENN: Since Reagan, though, we have traveled back down decidedly the progressive path. With the Democrats and the Republicans. But it’s been the last eight years of the hard-core progressive policies that have brought the United States back to the brink of destruction, making this election in 2016, the most important election Americans may have ever faced. The last time we faced this scenario, American citizens chose wisely, electing Reagan in a landslide. But what happens this time? To hear the Obama administration tell it, things have never been better. After all, they passed their signature Affordable Care Act legislation to provide affordable health care for all Americans. All Americans? Well, except for the 33 million that are still uninsured. And they repeatedly promised… OBAMA: You can keep your plan if you’re satisfied with it. If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. I intend to keep this promise. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. If you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. GLENN: That was a lie. At least 5 million Americans lost the coverage that they had and wanted to keep. And on the affordable side of health care, they swore. OBAMA: And if you already have health insurance, we will lower your premiums by $2,500 per family, per year. The only thing we’ll try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed on to you, and we estimate we can cut an average family’s premium by about $2,500 per year GLENN: That also was a lie. Instead of $2,500 less, Americans are now paying more, a lot more. Monthly premiums have risen 24 percent since 2010, according to the Kaiser Foundation. Not only that, but the deductibles have increased 67 percent over the last five years. They’ll tell you how the unemployment numbers are incredibly low, around 5 percent. Another lie. The actual number, even according to fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders, when you consider those who have given up and those working part-time who want full-time work, is 10.5. As for the economy, America is now over $19 trillion in debt. Ask any respected economist if we’re in a solid position to prosper right now. What many will tell you is that the economy is so precarious, it could literally collapse. For eight years, we’ve had a commander-in-chief who has turned his back on Israel and the other allies. OBAMA: You know, people don’t remember, when I came into office, the United States in world opinion ranked below China and just barely above Russia. And today, once again the United States is the most respected country on earth. It’s the reason why, you know, we are moving in the direction of normalizing relations with Cuba. The nuclear deal that we’re trying to negotiate with Iran. GLENN: While diminishing the threat that we face from our enemies. OBAMA: Governor Romney, I’m glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat. Because a few months ago, when you were asked, “What’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America,” you said Russia. You know, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s, and the economic policies in the 1920s. GLENN: When threats turned violent in Benghazi, Libya, this administration repeatedly lied about the source and the cause of attack for weeks. HILLARY: We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American ambassadors over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. VOICE: We had no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack. VOICE: What sparked the recent violence was the airing on the internet of a very hateful, very offensive video. OBAMA: As offensive as this video was, we’ve denounced it, and the United States government had nothing to do with it. That’s never an excuse for violence. GLENN: The Constitution has been under continual fire, from forcing religious organizations to dispense or provide access to birth control and abortion pills, to the executive orders that have destroyed the checks and balances set up in our founding documents. In their defense, this administration will argue that the number of executive orders are in line with other presidents. But that misses the point entirely. It is the quality of those orders, not the quantity that has done the most damage. Americans who provide services through their businesses are now being fined. They’re run out of business. They’re threatened with prosecution for not participating in events they have religious objections to. In addition to sexual fluidity, we’re also being told that there’s a gender fluidity. That at some point you can identify as a male, and at other points, a female and act accordingly when choosing a restroom. We have also discovered that not even your race is always what it seems. You may be a white person, but you could identify as a black person. In this brave new world of political correctness, even that isn’t supposed to raise an eye brow. NSA spying on American citizens has not only continued, it has intensified. Freedom of speech has been greatly curtailed. Someone expressing a politically incorrect point of view is very likely now to lose their livelihood or even in some cases face fines or prosecution. Freedom of the press is also under assault. Barack Obama has prosecuted more journalists under espionage guidelines than all other presidents combined, by triple the number. Race relations in this country haven’t been this tense since the 1960s at least. The country is quite possibly more divided than it has ever been, with the exception of the Civil War period. Facing all of this in 2016, we have an election decision of biblical proportions. On the Democratic side, there is Hillary Clinton, who has vowed to maintain Obama’s policies over the last eight years. America may not survive that. There’s also the self-proclaimed socialist running as a Democrat, Bernie Sanders, who is now vowing to go even beyond what Obama has done and take America away once and for all from the principles upon which we stand. And to take it more European socialist, that would be the end of the United States of America as the world has always known it. For the Republicans, the leading candidate to this point is Donald Trump. A celebrity to be sure. But also a long-time hard-core progressive along the lines of Theodore Roosevelt. And he is a progressive who relentlessly attacks everyone who disagrees with him and who has in the past had policies that are even to the left of Barack Obama, Clinton, and in some cases, Bernie Sanders. The other leader in the G.O.P. field, to this point, is Ted Cruz. A Reagan-like conservative. Ted, I believe is even more conservative than Ronald Reagan. He is also a hard-core constitutionalist, capitalist, and small government advocate. Like Reagan, he wants to cut taxes. Not from 70 percent to 28, as Reagan did, on the upper income bracket. But Cruz wants to eliminate the progressive tax brackets together and adopt a 10 percent flat tax across-the-board, cut spending, and ignite the economy. And unlike Reagan, he does not want to grant amnesty to illegal aliens currently residing here. TED: If Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. I understand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn’t often see it as an economic issue. And I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press. Then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation. GLENN: There are several other candidates who now fall somewhere between Cruz and Donald Trump ideologically. But that’s why we believe this November, Americans will make the most important choice in the nation’s history. Will they vote to continue or even accelerate on a path towards socialist progressive policies, big government intervention in the lives of American citizens, or will they choose the path they chose back in 1920 and 1980. Smaller, less intrusive government, and more freedom. What is more important to Americans in 2016? Socialism entitlement, celebrity status, or constitutional founding principles? We’ll most likely know the answer to that on Tuesday, November 8th.

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Listen to the Full Election Series: Part I Part II Part III Part IV

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