Last Friday, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly tried to work out where they differ on the definition of progressivism:
Beck: It’s Marxism without a revolution.
O’Reilly: They just want to take your stuff.
Case closed.
On The O’Reilly Factor, Beck and O’Reilly debated what it really means to be a progressive.
Beck said: “People don’t understand what ‘progressive’ really means. The difference between Marxism and progressivism is, Marxism has a revolution, like what Van Jones would like to do. Progressivism says, ‘bit by bit we’ll eat at the Constitution.'”
O’Reilly disagreed: “Progressivism wants to take your stuff. That’s it. That’s what it is. It wants to take your stuff.”
Beck asked: “They don’t want to kill you?”
“No! Because then they won’t have your stuff,” O’Reilly shot back.
Beck wasn’t finished: “I will go a step further. They don’t just want to take your stuff. They want to control every aspect of your life.”
O’Reilly demurred: “I don’t think Obama cares what you do in your spare time.”
Watch:
H/T Media Matters
