Quote of the Day

Glenn Beck, very smart historian:

Divine Providence leads one to be humble. Manifest Destiny leads one to be arrogant. It leads one to say, "Get the hell out of my way; I'm on a mission from God!" And that's what this country is going through. That's what this country—from Andrew Jackson, it led to us wiping out the Indians; it led to, um, the Democratically-led, Democratically-led, Reconstruction; it led to the Democratically-led, um, uh, separation of the races—Woodrow Wilson, I will not drink out of a drinking fountain with a black man, um, that's a—that's quite an amazing story.

It's been the story from the beginning with progressives. That arrogance was already in America, and then they added the European arrogance, and then they added a little bit of socialism, and then they added a little bit of Fabian Society, and they came up with this great progressive idea which led to eugenics, which led to, uh, Davenport, working—an American! Trying to tell people here that "This is where we're going. We gotta just weed out the stupid people." It led to Walter Lippmann (?), a guy who is absolutely studied by every journalist and praised by every journalist in America—and as a great man! Saying that the American people are stupid! Now if we could just weed some of the stupidity out; if we could just breed a better voter.

Davenport took it so far that even during World War II, while we were fighting the Nazis, he kept lines open to the Nazis to help them with their eugenics! Translation: The Holocaust. American progressives did it. Arrogance.

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