I am not reading Glenn Beck's Common Sense. It's not that I don't want to, rather, I can not find it anywhere. Instead, I am listening to it on Audio Book.
Mr. Beck's premise--may I call you Glenn? Glenn's premise is that our country is in trouble and politicians and power brokers keep the general public distracted from the real problem by pointing fingers at each other. They (the political & Wall Street elites) keep us busy arguing over minor issues while they steer our country out of it's greatness--trading our liberty for a false sense of security.
I am only on the 2nd CD, but I am able to relate to Glenn's logical, sensible approach to the issues of our day. Drawing on the inspiring words of National heroes like Thomas Payne and Martin Luther King, Jr., Beck encourages patriots to seek ways to spur a non-violent American Revolution that uses the tools of democracy to turn our country back in the right direction. For a moment, drop your party affiliation, set your passionate issues aside, and examine our country with common sense.
For the record, I can really relate to the average American described at the beginning of the book except that I look forward to going to church.
Glenn Beck paints a big, scary picture--and he does it all in real colors, not hypersaturation. In other words, America IS facing real problems and the politicians are more the cause and less the solution. Listening to his book can be overwhelming when you consider the scope and nature of the conflict he is addressing. So what can we do about it? While we still have a voice, we can push for term limits for all public servants. We can vote for character instead of party or charisma. Most important, we need to engage with the facts; seeing past the smokescreen that the politicians have created.
Concurrent to the release of the book, Beck published a letter from one of his listeners. He has attached a petition to the letter that you may sign if you agree. At the time of this composition (Saturday night, June 20th) the petition had 116,078 signatures.
I haven't finished the book yet, but I am excited about it and I can whole-heartedly recommend it. Of course, by the time I have this scheduled to post on Tuesday, I may have finished the whole book. I know I will be passing it on to my friends and family.
