Okay. I know this is a bit late but I’ve been poring over this chapter and there really isn’t too much to write about. Here’s a refund.

So he opens the chapter asking us if we want a job with among other things, no performance reviews, good medical benefits, traveling the world, and working with people who hate you but have to suck up. I’m sorry, are we talking about politicians here or CEOs? But of course we’re only talking about politicians. Although I don’t think that Beck believes CEOs are completely innocent (he seems to both be a capitalist and hate CEOs). Anyway, he goes on to complain about how Congress didn’t comply with stuff like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (no job discrimination) and such until 1995. What’s he talking about? I don’t know, he doesn’t have any fucking sources! It’s really frustrating, because at least if I knew what he was talking about I could specifically rebut facts. But Googling is showing nothing, and the list of sources at the back is too fucking huge and involves too many things I don’t have ready access to to see where he’s pulling this from.

He then asks whether Congress doesn’t want to abide by these rules; the two options he provides are “it’ll impact their jobs” and “they don’t want to deal with the rules.” I’m not entirely sure what he’s going for here; I mean he can’t possibly be calling for scrapping important laws like Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act. But maybe I have too much faith in Glenn Beck.

He then goes on to talk about how Congress has a huge re-election rate for various reasons, such as fund-raising and gerrymandering. Here, he’s basically spot-on: some of the districts are absolutely ridiculous, and he even has a solution: term limits on all public servants. I’m going to assume he only means elected ones, as firing the low-level bureaucrats ever 5 years or so would be kind of… stupid. It’s not an entirely unreasonable assumption, either; he’s actually making a fairly cogent point here.

And once again, Glenn Beck finishes the chapter with a reference to 9/11, and talks about the post-9/11 days as if they were some kind of happy paradise where everybody was united and “late-nite comedians deffered their jokes.” Wait, what? Isn’t Glenn Beck the sort to rant about POLITICAL CORRECTNESS? Isn’t not making jokes about something like 9/11 basically an obvious example of the self-censorship people like Glenn Beck like to stereotype as ‘political correctness’, which is actually no more than not calling a black person ‘nigger’ or a gay person ‘faggot’. I mean, I was kind of 10 years old at the time, but I don’t exactly think I’d really want to go back to how I felt on 9/12.

Chapter 4 may have been a disappointment, but just wait for Chapter 5, on the cancer of progressivism! Yes, that’s the actual title.