{"id":2353,"date":"2010-08-30T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-08-30T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:34:19","slug":"glenn_beck_as_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck As Nemiah Scudder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/glenn_becks_100-year_plan.html\" target=\"browser\">mentioned before that Glenn Beck just creeps me out<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s not just that his politics and mine are so different (they are) &#8211; I have watched O&#8217;Reilly and Michelle Malkin and others and don&#8217;t get the same stomach-churning sense of dread that I get from Beck.<\/p>\n<p>Now, watching the video of his speeches at the Lincoln Memorial, I realize I was totally right in stating who he reminds me of &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/If_This_Goes_On%E2%80%94\" target=\"browser\">Nehemiah Scudder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember him? From the Robert Heinlein novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003EN85HU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=armedliberal-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003EN85HU\" target=\"browser\">&#8230;if this goes on?<\/a> &#8211; where the United States is ruled by a theocratic dictatorship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The story is set in a future theocratic American society, ruled by the latest in a series of &#8220;Prophets.&#8221; The First Prophet was Nehemiah Scudder, a backwoods preacher turned President (elected in 2012), then dictator (<b>no elections were held in 2016 or later<\/b>)<\/p>\n<p>[emphasis added].<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Heinlein imagined a religious dictatorship taking over the US in 2012&#8230;are you nervous yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}