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| Three generations of a blended family have gathered on this wooden porch to share a quiet moment of intergenerational learning and reflection, looking for clarity and connection during a time of social and economic uncertainty. Centered around a table with a potted plant, key, and book, they find a rare pause to consider the practical consequences of major societal shifts and the importance of preserving freedom. They set argument aside to consider who, in a free society, should ultimately decide the value of life’s most basic goods. Image Credit: EDJE Music Digital Staff via GEMINI (2026) |
Just Listen! - Conversations On Who Sets The Price Of Bread
The other day, families all throughout America were shown a political face
that is, all at once, seductive and very, very dangerous to all individual
Human lives living in an intentional government formed where rights come
from a power that is greater than any Human power known on our blue orb that
circles the Sun.
The advancement of Socialism to a level never taken as seriously in previous
decades is rising up within the modern Democrat Political Party and a
faction named Democratic Socialists of America has been winning major
executive office positions and winning Democrat primaries in advance of the
2026 Midterm Elections.
In the midst of this rising tide, commentator Glenn Beck has issued an open
letter of unusual restraint and deliberate focus. Rather than launching into
the customary fusillade of denunciation, the letter urges parents and
citizens alike to set argument aside and simply pose a series of plain
questions - then listen. The central inquiry that gives the letter its force
is the deceptively ordinary one: Who sets the price of bread?
Beck observes that the language of modern democratic socialism presents
itself as compassion and fairness, yet history records that whenever the
state assumes the power to determine the value of ordinary goods and the
means of their production, the individual soon discovers that the same
authority extends to the ordering of daily life itself. The letter does not
demand agreement; it asks only that the listener consider the practical
consequences of transferring such power from the countless voluntary
exchanges of free people to a central planning authority.
The questions that follow are framed with quiet precision. They distinguish
between an expanded safety net of the Nordic variety and the outright
ownership of the means of production. They inquire who, precisely, is to be
trusted with the power to “un-rig” a system alleged to be corrupt. They ask
whether any nation that has placed the means of production under state
control has thereby enriched its poorest citizens. They note the direction
in which people have historically fled when walls fall or borders open. And
they return, again and again, to that simple, stubborn question of the loaf
of bread - its price, its availability, and the unseen network of decisions
that keep it on the shelf.
In the style of quiet observation rather than polemical heat, Beck’s letter
presents these inquiries as a test of seriousness. If the conversation that
follows is honest, the letter suggests, the seductive face of the new
socialism may be seen more clearly for what it is: an ancient claim of
superior wisdom over the messy, imperfect, and remarkably productive liberty
of individuals who, left free to trade and invent, somehow manage to set the
price of bread without a committee.
From Glenn Beck
If you have a son or daughter who’s starting to think that socialism is
the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back.
Next time you talk, don’t argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just
listen.
When you say “socialism,” do you mean that you want the government to pay
for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the
means of production? Because those are two very different countries. You
say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the
power to un-rig it? Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or
corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up? Can you
name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production
and the poor got richer? When borders open or the walls fall down,
anywhere in the world, which direction do people run—toward the
free-market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries
fell, which way were the guns pointed? Would you rather be poor today, or
rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics. If you and I
make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt? Someone
has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the
person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either
of you?
Try having this conversation with your kids this week. Don’t argue. Only
listen. And if you want, call into my radio show and tell me how it
went.
ENDS
Enter EDJE Music and its Digital Staff to create a song inspired through the
letter from Glenn Beck.
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| Image Credit: EDJE Music Digital Staff via GEMINI |
Title: Just Listen
(acoustic folk, country, bluegrass, female voice)
*(Verse 1)*
If your son or daughter starts to say
Socialism’s gonna save the day,
Don’t raise your voice, don’t draw the line—
Just sit right down and take your time.
Ask the questions, hold your tongue,
And listen close to what they say.
*(Verse 2)*
When you say “socialism,” tell me true:
Do you mean Denmark’s safety net for you,
Or the state that owns the factory floor?
Those two roads lead to different doors.
You say the system’s rigged and cruel—
Who fixed the game, and who’d re-rule?
*(Verse 3)*
Who sets the price of daily bread?
If not one boss, then what instead?
Name a land where the state took hold
And the poorest rose from the cold.
When walls come down and borders free,
Which way do the people flee?
*(Verse 4)*
Toward the market or the plan?
And which way did the soldiers’ guns once stand?
Would you rather be poor right now,
Or rich in nineteen-hundred somehow?
Only one of those has medicine’s grace—
Antibiotics in this time and place.
*(Verse 5)*
If we trade and both walk off content,
Who got hurt in that moment spent?
Who should say what your labor’s worth—
You and the buyer, or some far-off clerk
With an army at his back, who’s never met
The hands that work or the ones who get?
Once the last physical reference falls to A-I,
Rulers rule with abandon, free of all.
Just ask these things, then listen well…
And let the silence gently tell.
ENDS
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