The people on the right that listen to Beck and take him seriously, I have a number of these people in my family, know NOTHING about people like Fox-Piven, or Saul Alinsky. They know nothing of social movements or radicals, what motivates them, they know nothing of the ideals they have, the ideas they want to implement, the facts that they focus on and why or things like economic history. I am an activist. I know a little about Piven, but to think there are armies of leftists running around treating her words as the bible shows how ignorant Beck's followers are of the left.

To them, these people wake up in the morning and think, before they go and get a cup of coffee or something, "how can I destroy America today"? They aren't morally repulsed by the extreme poverty in this country, our immoral and violent foreign policy, our exploitive economic system, or anything else. No. they're not motivated by morals but by blind, violent nihilism. They talk about concepts, like socialism, they know NOTHING about. If you asked them what socialist authors (not people CALLED socialist by those who don't know what the term means, by people who call themselves socialist) they've read you'd get a blank stare. If you asked them to define socialism they would do so in a way that describes every country in the West, including the US. The extremely complex science of global warming? All the knuckle draggers on the right have extremely strong opinions and don't have to be bothered with trying to understand the extremely complex issue or, gasp, read someone that they don't agree with and won't simply tell them what they want to hear.

It isn't a sign of ignorance to stand up and scream about something you don't understand and haven't attempted to. These people have clearly given up using their brains, trying to understand the world they live in and having open minds. They know nothing, other than the right wing is always correct and there is no point in trying to learn and to admit you are wrong or ignorant when you are.

I know many of these people and they aren't interested in learning or saying that they are wrong, about any small thing. If you show them studies about an issue that they're speaking ignorantly about they'll attack the group doing the study, even if they don't know who they are. If you explain to them, because you do know about some issue they're carping about, how wrong they are they'll change the subject or fight you like a petulant, dumb 7th grader.

To think that the capitalist market economy has collapsed because of anyone on the left is absurd. It shows how little these people know about economics. The problems we are facing goes back decades, not to 2006 or 2007, and has everything to do with underlying problems within the capitalist system. It just does, but they'll never admit it or learn from people who will explain how this is the case. To them there is no difference between WANTING something and having the capacity to do something. Let's say that Piven wanted capitalism to implode, how in the world could she or anyone on the left make it happen? I WANT a billion dollars, but I have no means to make that a reality. Am I a billionaire because I WANT a billion dollars?

Beck clearly wants to deflect attention away from who and what has caused the, for example, 40 year long stagnation of wages, or the explosion in inequality, but he probably knows what the implications would be if he did, something akin to what happened to the Communist Party after Stalin's crimes were acknowledged by the USSR.

I do wonder though, why has no left wing lawyers went after Beck for this type of violence? Why did the Tides Foundation not at least attempt at going after him for Byron Williams? The man said himself that Beck was his inspiration for doing what he did! Why does no one go after people who go on the national media here and call for the assassination of Julian Assange? There really is no direct costs for calls to violence in this country, especially when it comes from the right, whose ideas benefit those with lots of money.