To the contrary, I think his attraction for millions of people is that he is basically sane.
He exposes crazy as crazy by getting upset over it, because he's fighting the programming that has led people to calmly accept crazy lying illegal destructive bullshit from their leaders. So he points out that the bullshit is crazy, and he gets upset about it, and then he says - "see how I'm upset and not calm, because this is crazy? That's called sanity. It's sane to get upset over crazy bullshit. It is not sane to accept it calmly."
He's teaching outrage sanity to a calmly insane population.
Love the way you put that. It speaks to something that is very, very true.
It's not appropriate to remain civil and calm, while the very foundations of your whole way of life are being ripped asunder.
We all need to exercise some outrage at what the Democrats are doing to our country. A whole lot of outrage would be even better.
i think you're pretty on point here.
I don't really watch or listen to Beck much, but what I've seen (mostly links to vids from FR). leads me to believe he is definitely not crazy. A lot of what you're reading here is people who didn't watch the speech in question, so they are making comments out of ignorance. Something I've also noticed is that when people do listen to what is actually being said, it actually fires up a bit of cognitive dissonance in their brain, because they've been fed lies their whole lives. When you hear the truth, after hearing nothing but lies, it makes people uncomfortable.
A case in point: How can anyone with a brain not see what they do to us every single day with social security, and not get upset at the absolute blatant lies that are constantly spread by both parties. Neither side is willing to admit the obvious: that it is an absolutely unsustainable ponzi scheme, that is utterly unsupportable. All one has to look at are simple demographics. At best, it is just another form of welfare, that once again is completely unsustainable. Yet, all we hear from even allegedly "conservative" politicians is crap about tinkering around the edges to "save" it. The only way to "save" it from a fiscal perspective would be to raise the retirement age to 90. Possibly more.
Too many people have been fed the socialist dogma for so long, that they are completely unable to think in any other terms.