The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First Century Fascism by Glenn Beck

Author:Glenn Beck [Beck, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637630594
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Publisher: Forefront Books
Published: 2022-01-11T08:00:00+00:00

Why should Russians have all the fun of remaking a world?

—STUART CHASE, AN ADVISER TO PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, IN HIS BOOK A NEW DEAL,

1932

T HE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WERE filled with nearly

unimaginable horror and despair. Twenty million people died in World War

I, the “war to end all wars,” and another 21 million were wounded. As many as

100 million people perished during the 1918–1919 influenza outbreak.401

Seventy-five million people were killed during World War II, including the

millions of European Jews who were murdered during the Nazis’ Holocaust.

During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, 15 million Americans were

unemployed, and the United States faced unprecedented chaos in its financial

industry. Nearly half of all U.S. banks failed.402 Segregation gripped the Southern

United States, severely limiting the opportunities and rights of African

Americans. The Titanic—the world’s first “unsinkable ship”—sank.

However, despite these grave tragedies, the United States endured—and in

many respects, significantly progressed—offering periods of immense, positive

economic and societal changes. The horse-driven carriage was replaced by the

motor vehicle. Widespread access to electricity transformed America’s economy

and dramatically improved living standards. The Wright brothers showed the

world that humans could take flight. More than 15 million people emigrated to

America’s shores from 1900 to 1915, helping to push the U.S. economy far

beyond its global competitors and greatly expanding the country’s urban

centers. 403

For better or worse, the period from 1900 to the end of World War II is best

defined by one word: disruption. And as has always been the case in human

history, whenever there is disruption, there is great opportunity for radical

change. Or as they are fond of saying in America’s favorite television documentary

series, Game of Thrones, “Chaos is a ladder.”

The rise of progressivism in the United States in the early twentieth century

would not have been possible without the era’s tremendous disruption.

Progressives knew this, and they took advantage. In the early days of the

Progressive movement, leaders developed a playbook for remaking society by

shifting power into the hands of elites, who would use centralized bureaucratic

agencies, international organizations, and large businesses and financial

institutions to enact their far-reaching reforms. Although progressive elites’ plan

has gone through a variety of phases, it has remained mostly unchanged over the

past one hundred years. The faces and some methods have evolved, to be sure, but

the foundational goals and strategies are nearly identical to those established at

the start of the Progressive Era.

One of the clearest articulations for progressives’ plan for a new society was

revealed in the 1940s by Stuart Chase, perhaps the most influential American

economist of his time and a member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s

famous “brain trust. ”404 Chase is most famous in progressive and socialist circles

today for developing the “New Deal” political slogan later adopted by FDR.405

In the early 1940s, the Twentieth Century Fund, an influential organization

devoted to promoting progressive causes, commissioned Chase to write a series of

small books called When the War Ends. 406 The purpose of the book series was to

advocate for the advancement of a new society following the conclusion of World

War II.

In the first book of the series, titled The Road We Are Traveling,

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