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The Glenn Beck Program

Ep 1 | Control Freaks: The 'Scientific' Roots of Progressive Tyranny (REPLAY) | The Beck Story

The Glenn Beck Program

Blaze Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.622.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

How did unelected “experts” with their unwavering devotion to “science” rise to such power in American life? More than a century ago, an engineer named Frederick W. Taylor inspired progressive activists with a new concept he called “scientific management.” Future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis took Taylor’s concept and married it with political power. Brandeis teamed up with President Woodrow Wilson and a powerful senator named Robert La Follette to give the nation an “expert” makeover that Americans were not asking for. This is the story of how a cult of expertise developed among progressives and how these “experts” took a sledgehammer to our constitutional system of government, with far-reaching consequences that still reverberate today. Sponsors Jase Medical Being able to take your destiny in your own hands is something I believe in. And it’s something that Jase Medical believes in, as well. They’re a proud partner in bringing this together, and I’m happy to have them on board. They’re providing some of the most vital life-saving medications – medications that the “experts” wouldn’t want you to be in charge of. I encourage you to check out https://jasemedical.com today, and prepare yourself and your family. Relief Factor Fighting pain is almost always about helping your body heal itself with natural supplements that are actually effective. I know because I take Relief Factor every day. If you’re suffering from pain, can I recommend that you give Relief Factor a try? Go to https://www.relieffactor.com today! PreBorn At the dawn of the twentieth century, “experts” in the medical field were promoting eugenics - the systematic weeding out of undesirable human beings. Tragically, the brainchild of that historic evil is embedded in our society to this day. It’s practiced every time an expecting mother walks into a clinic and allows a doctor – an “expert” – to destroy her unborn child. I’m so very proud to partner with PreBorn in combating this evil. Please, go to https://www.preborn.com today and help us in the fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ever wonder why things are the way they are in America?

0:08.0

Welcome to the Beck Story, my podcast on how our past informs our present, charts our future.

0:18.0

How did we get here?

0:20.0

The first season is about the cult of expertise in America, how it permeated our government,

0:25.9

how this allegiance to so-called expertise has far-reaching implications for our nation right now. A remarkably consistent through line

0:36.1

extends from the original progressive movement right through to the actions

0:41.3

of left-wing elites today.

0:44.0

How many times lately have you heard,

0:47.0

well, do you have a doctorate in that?

0:50.0

Oh, are you an expert?

0:52.0

Oh, you must be a scientist.

0:55.0

No, I'm not any of those things.

0:58.0

I am somebody who's a reasonable thinking American.

1:02.0

I have a right to question and I also have a responsibility

1:08.4

to be involved in all of the decisions that now seem to be being made for me. So how did we get here? How many

1:18.1

times in the past few years have you heard some version of this? Health experts say your time might be running out.

1:27.0

Experts say it's happening.

1:28.0

Well, experts, health experts say,

1:30.0

some experts, experts,

1:32.0

follow the science.

1:33.0

Follow the science.

1:34.0

Be driven by science.

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