RADIOJuly 31, 2024

Why Leftist Elites Will NEVER Understand J.D. Vance

Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media have branded Trump's VP Pick J.D. Vance as ... "weird." But Glenn explains why that's a GOOD thing. Vance IS weird to leftist elites because they will never understand him. He grew up poor, not with the "white privilege" that Democrats insist all white people have. Instead of staying on government welfare, he pulled himself out of poverty. And perhaps "weirdest" of all to these elites, he's an entrepreneur — proof that the American free market system works.

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

I was listening too Pat and Stu there. And thank you, guys, for filling in. We have a problem, seemingly getting my voice down to earth, even though I'm only 8,000 feet above earth. But thanks for filling in.

I'm listening to them talk about J.D. Vance and weird. How weird he is. Well, first of all, let's keep J.D. Vance weird. Okay? You can go to GlennBeckMerch.com right now and get your Keep J.D. Vance Weird T-shirt. I thought weird was an okay thing. I mean, that was keep Austin weird. Keep San Francisco weird. Keep Portland weird.

So I don't know what their problem is. Well, actually I do. This listening to Pat and Stu, they bring up a lot of really, really good points. But I think we're missing one thing. To him, he is weird. And this is critical to understand.

Because we think they're weird.

Right?

So let me explain why they think J.D. Vance is weird. J.D. Vance is from a red state. Weirdness number one. J.D. Vance grew up in white poverty. Weirdness number two for them. They -- he was -- he was -- he had a horrible, horrible life. He didn't have white privilege.

Weirdness number three. And he never gave up or listened to the naysayers. Weirdness number four.

Just that, is enough to make him weird. But that's not the full key. To understand why the left thinks J.D. Vance is weird. And they don't relate to his policies, is because he comes at life, 180 degrees differently, than the left does. He believes, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Don't let anybody tell you no. Do it. Do it.

No matter what anybody says about you -- because nobody is holding you down. Nobody is holding you back, except you and your choices.

That's one of the biggest things that's weird about J.D. Vance.

Because either they totally believe it, or they know they're running an evil scam. On -- on people.

All over the world. You can't make it. You'll never make it. You need me to make it. Who says that? Who says that, except an abusive partner.

You'll never make it. You know who is keeping you down.

But I can help you get there. I mean, that's the Nina Simone. Life. Nina Simone is probably the greatest jazz singer in the 20th century. You don't know it. Or you may know her. Or know that she's great. But she didn't have her popularity, because she was twisted from the beginning. White people telling her she couldn't do it. And then breaking through that. And then marrying abusive men over and over again, that just used her and lied to her and abused her.

Well, you start to believe those things. Or you conquer those things. It's not what happens to you in life. It's what you do with those things! I thought my dad was crazy, when he told me, son, there's nothing. There's nothing bad.

And I was feeling bad for myself. And I said, really? Nothing bad. Really?

Well, how about when this happened. When this happened. Or when mom died. That wasn't bad?

He's like, there's things that happen, that cause scars.

There are things that happen, that we don't like. But you're either going to wallow in that. Or you're going to learn and take something away from that. And help it empower you.

This is the lesson of life!

Don't cower, stand back up!

Because life is going to hit you over and over again.

Well, stand up.

So that is -- that is really weirdness this be four.

But here's the main weirdness for the left, with J.D. Vance. He's an entrepreneur. And it coincidences with don't tell anybody, you know.

Don't let anybody tell you what you are or what you aren't. Don't let anybody tell you no. Just do it yourself if you believe it. You may fail, but you're going to pick yourself back up.

That's an entrepreneurial spirit. Those are the people with real drive. And they're different than people that just want a 9:00 to 5:00 job.

And there's nothing wrong with either of them. You can be somebody who is like, I don't want all of that. I just don't want all of that. I just want to go do my time. Make my money. Be treated fairly. And go home.

And have a life. I don't know what percentage of the population like that.

But there's a good portion of the population that is like that. And those are the people that the left relates to, and counts on. Because, they can use greed and envy. To have you look at an entrepreneur, somebody with drive. Look, man. I don't have the drive to go do what Elon Musk does. I don't have the brains to do it either.

So why should I think -- I should take some money from Elon Musk? Why would I hate Elon Musk? For having the brains, the -- the absolute gall to do what he's done. Take all of the risks.

Oh, good for him. See, what the left doesn't understand is we need each other. We need the entrepreneurs.

We need the people that think out of the box.

Quite honestly, we need rich people, that will -- will build libraries. Or -- or invest in some crazy, crackpot idea.

By the way, every idea, that's changed the world, has been crazy or crackpot.

We need the entrepreneurs. The crackpots. The inventors. The people who have drive, that just won't stop.

And those people need the 9:00 to 5:00ers. Can you imagine what it would be like if we were a society, that was just full of nothing, but entrepreneurs.

You would think it would be a good thing. But it wouldn't be.

Who is actually holding down the fort?

Who is doing all of the work, that needs to be done, to get that idea launched?

You have to have the 9:00 to 5:00ers. You have to have them.

And 9:00 to 5:00ers. The old saying is, tell me the last poor person that you worked for. Because those people an average salary, and everything else. And again, there's nothing wrong with that. They're not the ones, necessarily, that have the drive, and maybe they do.

And they're waiting for their opportunity. Or whatever. But generally speaking, those who want to work 9:00 to 5:00. Clock in, clock out. Have a life.

Those aren't the ones that have the dreams of changing the world. No entrepreneur can do without them.

So here's what happens. They think J.D. Vance is weird because they can't relate to him.
They can't relate to him, on anything. His white poverty, instead of his white privilege. His red state over their blue state.

His getting back up again, over and over again, and rejecting the idea. Stay down.

You need the government. Reach out for a handout. They can't understand that. Even though, his family did take government assistance. Because they needed it.

You got out of that. No. Stay in it.

He's an entrepreneur. He's a guy who dedicated himself. He was a dummy. Dedicated himself, to learn.

And he did. And that opened another door. Don't just go to school and do it like everybody else does. Actually choose to be in charge of your education. Take it seriously.

And look at the door that will open for you.

They don't understand that. They want you to sit in that class. And learn not to read. And not to write. All of the stuff.

They want you to learn how to be a good little soldier, for them.

And the collective. If you have unbridled crony capitalism, which is what we have had.

If you have it to where the government can get involved, and start making bets on who is going to succeed, and who is not.

What does that give you? It gives you a culture much like ours. It gives you a culture where, God help you. You're not employing to be able to escape.

Because it's not fair, because the man, not in the corporation. But the corporation and the government keep you down.

You cannot invent a better mousetrap. Because the people at the mousetrap company, have all kinds of laws that they have helped write. To make sure that you can't start at the beginning.

And so you get this greed, this envy. This wealth.

This power. And it's all corrupt.

But then the left comes in, and says, let's get rid of these rich people.

Because they're bad. And we're going to tell everybody else, that we're the power. And you can't make it without us.

But who are those people?

Those are the same people, at the top now, in the corporations, as opposed to government. That are saying, you can't make it. Give me more power. Pass more laws in my favor. That are holding us down for you. That's why this system is broken! And you can't go back to the way it was, with crony capitalism. You've got to get rid of all of that. You have to reduce the size of the government. And put a clear wall between the government and business. They are only there. The government is only there to say, excuse me. That's against the law. It's a place for you to run to and say, I need the police. But you can't do that with the government now. You're going to run to the FBI? You think you're going to get a fair shake?

Socialists eat the entrepreneur. They eat them. They eat the rich. And that's why it always fails. Socialism, communism, always fails, because it eats the dreamers. There are no dreamers.

Tell me who the dreamers are in the government.

That's why he's weird, to them. And, again, I would say, if that's the case, keep J.D. Vance weird.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.