Beware of Progressives

I just finished watching the Glenn Beck Show on TV. He has a program on Fox News at 4:00 PM every day, and chooses one of the shows to repeat on the weekend. Tonight the show was about the evils of progressivism and about their effect on current politics. According to Glenn, the biggest danger of succumbing to progressive ideas is the abandoning of the principles of the Constitution, a document that he holds dear to his heart. "Progressives" evidently believe that it is OK to mess with the Constitution if a situation warrants it. The villain of this episode was Woodrow Wilson, who in a concerted effort to bring our society to its knees, instigated the Income Tax, founded the Federal Reserve, and enrolled our country in the First World War. He was also involved in setting up the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles after the war, organizations that were destined to fail and eventually lead to the resurgence of Germany as a military power. Glenn showed several clips of Obama and Hillary Clinton using the word "Progressive" to describe themselves, and I guess that we, the people, should think such a reference would make them a danger to society. I like Glenn a lot, and I think his off-beat, sometimes humorous approach to the news makes it fun to watch. But once in a while he hits on a subject that makes me wonder if he is just trying to scare us. Is being "Progressive" really that sinister? I know that he does a lot of research and reads all these books on ideology and history that would bore me to death, so maybe we need to be paying a bit of attention to him. Whether he is right or wrong, he makes me want to get more information on my own. If there really is danger lurking in the shadows, I want to know about it. Maybe this was Glenn's plan all along.