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The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism

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In The Great Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism , New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck argues that the American way of life will not survive the Great Reset and warns us to stop it before it's too late to reverse course.

An international conspiracy between powerful bankers, business leaders, and government officials; closed-door meetings in the Swiss Alps; and calls for a radical transformation of every society on earth—the Great Reset sounds like it is one henchman-with-an-eyepatch away from being the plot for the next James Bond movie.

But the Great Reset is not a work of fiction. It is a highly influential movement among the world’s elite to “reset” the global economy using banks, government programs, and environmental, social, and governance metrics. If they are successful and the Great Reset is finalized, it would put substantially more economic and social power in the hands of large corporations, international institutions, banks, and government officials, including Joe Biden, the United Nations, and many of the members of the World Economic Forum.

In The Great Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism , Glenn Beck uses his trademark blend of humor, storytelling, and detailed analysis to reveal for the first time the unbelievable truth about the Great Reset, tying together nearly two decades of groundbreaking research about authoritarian movements and their efforts to fundamentally transform the United States.

The roadmap to stopping the Great Reset begins with fully understanding what the free peoples of the world are up against, and no resource provides more information about this radical movement than Glenn Beck’s The Great Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism.

320 pages, ebook

Published January 11, 2022

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Glenn Beck

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Glenn Edward Lee Beck is one of America's leading radio and television personalities. His quick wit, candid opinions and engaging personality have made The Glenn Beck Program the third highest rated radio program in America and Glenn Beck, one of the most successful new shows on the Fox News Channel. His unique blend of modern-day storytelling and insightful views on current events allowed him to achieve the extraordinary feat of having #1 New York Times bestsellers in both fiction and non-fiction. Beck also stars in a live stage show and is the publisher of Fusion magazine.

Online, he is the editor of GlennBeck.com and the publisher of TheBlaze.com.

Beck is the author of six consecutive #1 New York Times Bestsellers including his latest book, the thriller The Overton Window. When The Christmas Sweater, his first novel, debuted at #1 on the fiction list, Beck became one of a handful of authors to write books that reached #1 on both the fiction and non-fiction NYT lists.

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Profile Image for Linda Galella.
643 reviews63 followers
January 11, 2022
So, I’ve read most of this book twice AND I’m still not ready to be done.

Reading “The Great Reset” is like assuming a doctoral thesis that’s not quite right…Some of the writing is so painfully bad it needed to be scratched and rewritten totally.

This continues on and on until at at about 47% on the Kindle version, Beck is struck by the realization that 21st century banking, medical, Fauci, supply and demand, housing, race, policing, and every other hot button from these last few years is coalescing into a giant single, 21st century umbrella of Fascism, when he adds the European characters into the information.

Stock Markets, International Markets, Paris Accord, Oil, Gas, OIL & GAS & O I L & G A S !!! COVID-19 driven by health care and saving lives?

It’s no great reset, more an unveiling of the insidious left and what they’ve been up to all this time📚
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1,158 reviews190 followers
May 23, 2022
Freedom is an unnatural state for humans. Very few humans in history have had the freedom to control their own lives. In every time and place, there are groups of people who think they can organize society better than before, that they know what’s best for you, that they can run your life better than you can. This book examines the latest movements in this trend and pieces them together.

Key points:
• Governments will use crises (Covid, global warming) to scare people into giving them more power. Actual solutions to such crises are ignored in favor of taking more power.
• Modern Monetary Theory eliminates the need for fiscal responsibility.
• ESG scores will control the behavior of individuals and corporations without resorting to gulags.
• Media controlled by a few large groups in bed with government makes censorship easy.
• Stakeholder capitalism puts government elites in charge of business decisions instead of customers.

Basically, the Great Reset is a plan for 21st-century fascism. It is pushed mostly by the World Economic Forum and tends to attract support by Progressives. It is a realization of the fears of Big Government (by the Right) and Big Corporations (by the Left) combined.

The book is largely nonpartisan other than the view that liberty is a great thing. It’s a surprisingly quick read, organized into short sections with clear headings, and written in a casual, conversational style. More than 500 footnotes fill the last 80ish pages. The points are supported by direct quotes that are public record. Mr. Beck encourages readers to do their own research of the topic.

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Look, I get it. When I first heard about the Great Reset, it sounded like a poorly written movie plot some struggling thirtysomething in Los Angeles cooked up in his mom’s basement between shifts at the Cheesecake Factory. But then I started to dig into the details about the Great Reset and what its most passionate supporters were saying, not just in private but publicly, on the record. And the more I learned, the more obvious it became that although the Great Reset is indeed a wile, crazy, completely out-there conspiracy theory, it is a very real one—and it has the potential to dramatically alter our world forever.

The Great Reset will not necessarily require the mass imprisonment of dissenters, nationwide confiscation of businesses, or a bloody revolution. It can achieve authoritarian goals without jackbooted storm troopers or gulags, and it includes just enough elements of cronyism and payouts to global elites to make the system palatable to the world’s wealthiest and most well-connected people. It is a kind of authoritarian, international, socialistic fascism, yes, but it’s not Marx’s socialism or the fascistic models embraced by Benito Mussolini. It is authoritarianism for our brand-new technology-rich, corrupt era. It is twenty-first century fascism.

Despite the media-contrived depictions to the contrary, nuclear is a lot better for the planet than wind or solar, which is especially important considering that the whole reason Americans are being urged to commit economic suicide with plans like the Green New Deal and Biden’s Green New Deal-lite plan—which would impose wind and solar energy on most of the country over just a couple of decades—is that wind and solar facilities are so much greener than other forms of energy production. But nuclear facilities emit four times less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than do solar farms, and wind farms require four hundred times more land than do nuclear power plants. ... Bulldozing millions of acres of land and killing millions of animals hardly sounds like green energy to me, but building these poor-performing monstrosities is just the beginning. After a few decades, when all the gigantic turbines and solar panels must be torn down, where do elites plan on putting them? I hate to break it to those of you who still think relying on wind and solar is a good idea, but you cannot just throw decommissioned wind and solar parts into a big blue recycling bin and leave it out on the street for your local garbageman to pick up. Wind turbines and solar panels create huge amounts of waste, much of it toxic, and no one has developed a clean, cost-effective way to deal with that gigantic problem. And remember, this is an issue that would come up every twenty or thirty years, as these facilities wear out.

Modern monetary theory might sound complicated, but it is actually very simple. According to MMT theorists, everyone should stop worrying so much about the national debt and deficits, because the U.S. government can print and spend as much money as it wants to in order to achieve the goals set by the federal government’s bureaucratic masterminds and political elite. That’s pretty much it.

It is also worth considering how digital currencies could be used to control economic behavior. If all currency were to become digitized and physical mediums of exchange were phased out, then banks, financial institutions, and governments would be able to track and control nearly every transaction in the world. Although there is no way of knowing exactly how they might try to use this unprecedented power, it is not hard to imagine how it could expand the authority of elites and impact regular folks on a daily basis. We have all heard about local governments’ attempts to tax—and in some cases ban—certain unhealthy foods, everything from foods containing trans fats to sugary drinks. In a world with a centralized digital currency, what’s to stop the ruling class from putting a limit on the number of Cokes you buy each week? Or the number of burgers you eat? Or the number of alcoholic beverages you consume or cigars you smoke? What’s to stop elites from preventing you from buying alcohol, cigarettes, or Twinkies entirely? They are bad for you, you know.

The Great Reset is a machine manufactured to usher in a new, highly sophisticated, technologically advanced, twenty-first century brand of international fascism, one with a corporate twist. But powerful machines like the Great Reset cannot operate without fuel. That is what modern monetary theory provides, by offering seemingly endless amounts of money that could be used to pay for just about anything government, corporations, and financial institutions can dream up.

Although you will not hear Great Resetters openly calling for authoritarianism, the Great Reset is clearly a new kind of soft authoritarianism that is not too far off from the merging of markets, corporatism, authoritarianism, collectivism, and modern technology that has been embraced by the Communist Party of China in recent decades. ... Openly calling for a takeover of the global economy by the ruling class would immediately alienate 90 percent of the general population, but by tying in the Green New Deal, a government jobs guarantee, and a host of other large social welfare programs, they have managed to win over some progressives and socialists who care deeply about those issues. And by painting the movement as a pro-business, pro-capitalism plan to improve the economy, they have managed to win over some establishment political figures on the right. But at its core, the Great Reset is not truly pro-socialism, and it’s not pro-capitalism either—it’s just a rebranding of the same old tired ideas that elites have pushed a million times before: “Give us more power, and we promise we’ll take care of you and fix the world’s ills. Let us manage more of the economy, and we promise you’ll all be wealthier for it. Give us the authority to punish the ‘bad guys’ in society, and we’ll save the planet from annihilation.”

Stakeholder capitalism is an economic system in which companies are effectively required to put social justice causes and/or the goals of elites—which, of course, vary wildly depending on the parties involved—before profits, supply and demand, the desires of consumers, and other market forces that normally direct capitalist systems, which, don’t forget, have created the most prosperous, healthy, safe societies humankind has ever known. ... Or put in much clearer terms, in a stakeholder capitalist system, companies should first serve the collective according to the demands of the ruling class in government, not their customers and owners. Stakeholder capitalism is just another way of saying “collectivist capitalism,” which really is not capitalism at all.

The consolidation of stock ownership in the hands of a small group of investment management companies is a relatively new and exceedingly dangerous development. The three largest stock index fund managers—BlackRock, Vanguard, and Sate Street Global Advisors—have quadrupled their average combined stake in S&P 500 companies over the past two decades.

The world’s massive social media infrastructure and online publisher model have also contributed to the conspiracy theory pandemic. Most publishers and many authors earn much of their money by getting clicks on articles they produce, so the more outrageous the article, the more likely it is that the publisher and author will have a big payday. How many hundreds of millions of dollars did the media earn by churning out literally thousands of Trump-Russia collusion stories, most of which ended up being based on false information? It is probably to calculate, but I can say this for certain: they made a heck of a lot more money with the collusion narrative than they would have made without it. The truth didn’t matter; the money did.

The United States has faced challenges and crossroads before, and they have come in many forms. But I am not sure that the country has ever experienced anything quite like the Great Reset. Never before have so many Americans been as eager as they are today to give away their freedoms to global elites. Never before have so many powerful U.S. business interests worked with such vigor to betray their country in pursuit of a lucrative new crony deal. Never before have American politicians and activist groups so openly demanded that more power be given to the ruling class and been [typo, my fault] by the media, Hollywood, and academic institutions with joy and excitement.
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267 reviews14 followers
January 23, 2022
Required reading for anyone who loves America

This book puts in one place most of what I had heard about the Great Reset. It also includes solutions. The one I agree with is localism: be involved in your local community. Read this book to understand what is going now, both in the US and around the world.
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41 reviews
February 16, 2022
This clarified so many facets of what is all around us.

Glenn Beck and his team have done so much in this work to bring together a clear minded analysis of the maneuvers being thrust upon us by an elite class of oligarchs who are certain that we will 'own nothing' and we will be HAPPY about it when their master plan is finally put in place. But he doesn't stop there. He suggests a few things we all can do to bring the nightmarish One World Order to an end. I wholly recommend you read this book if you like the nation you live in, AND that is not meant only for the United States.
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40 reviews2 followers
February 12, 2022
Beck writes about a very real problem facing this country today. I don’t know if we the people can truly stop the globalization of the economy, where if you don’t say or do the things government wants you to do they can control you by controlling your access to income. I think this eventually has to happen for the biblically prophesied one world order to take shape. But, I think we can perhaps slow it. Delay it to allow people to at least hear the truth. Not just about what the government is doing, but about the ultimate Truth.
34 reviews
February 1, 2022
Well documented. The book will scare you as you discover what is happening in the US right now. I found it interesting that I ordered it from Amazon at $18.50 when it first was published. Amazon soon bumped the price to $39.50! I don’t think they want it to become an Amazon Best Seller.

Bottom line: Read the book, think about it and form your own opinion. As Glenn says, “you do not have to believe every thing I write. If you disagree with me do your own research. I want to get America involved. “
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47 reviews2 followers
January 16, 2022
Not Socialism or Capitalism, but Fascism Coming from the Highest Levels of Global Government.

Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins methodically lay out their case that The Great Reset is neither Socialism nor Capitalism, but rather a program of instilling 21st Century Fascism in governments across the world.

The authors do an excellent job of stitching together evidence from a variety of governmental, financial, and other leaders divulging their intent to fundamentally transform the governments of the developed world into 21st Century Fascist states with or without the knowledge, or consent, of the people. The authors extensively use direct quotes from the leaders themselves, as well as citing numerous laws, regulations, and policies which these same leaders have either enacted or advocated on their behalf.

The book was thoroughly researched and its sources are painstakingly cited, to allow the reader the opportunity to verify what has been written and decide on the validity of the books claims for themselves, based on the evidence at hand. As Glenn Beck is fond of saying, even several times in this book alone, “Don’t trust me, do your own research.”

I found this book to be, not the easiest of Glenn Beck’s books to read, but, should his assertions prove correct, certainly his most important book.
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265 reviews33 followers
October 16, 2023
Most important chapter is chapter 5 which lays out the end goal of the Great Reset-international “stakeholder capitalism” aka corporatism-which comes after the climate and modern monetary theory chapters. The most surprising thing is how open this all is. Beck advocates libertarian and populist solutions like barring financial institutions from implementing ESG (“environmental social guidance” aka social credit score) and more broadly increase congressional representatives and a constitutional convention of the states to pass things like a balanced budget. One can favor certain policies like a carbon tax or a basic income, I think where the great reset is most objectionable is that it takes authority from elected representatives and individual consumers/investors and empowers big corporations banks and bureaucracies.
January 17, 2022
This book is a must read for anyone not interested in living under the blanket of government enforced 21st century fascism. What I found most interesting is that the Great Reset (which funnily enough is what the creators of the plan themselves have decided to call it) should alert conservatives and liberals alike, and that establishment Republicans and Democrats are working together to bring us under the heel of unlimited regulation, circumventing the rights guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution. You'll have to read the book for the details, a review cannot be a synopsis. It's a nerve wracking topic once you get into it, but no one should be ignorant of the fact that it is a real threat to almost every single person in America's way of life. That's not hyperbole. There are 38 pages of citations for the numerous quotes in this book. The threat of fascism is real and proven, and we have to spread awareness because if the Great Reset plan is widely known, I believe both liberals and conservatives would reject it.
11 reviews2 followers
January 16, 2022
informative

I actually thought the subject might be a little over my head so to speak. Yet I found it easy to understand and am anxious to learn more. I’m going to try to do my part to get the word out.
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90 reviews4 followers
January 28, 2022
THis is a must read for everyone! We need to wake up now!! If we allow the reset to happen we won't recognize America. Thank you Glenn Beck for writing this book!!!
February 6, 2022
America's Freedom is Worth Fighting for...

Glenn Beck brings to light the freedoms we enjoy are under assault by individuals that are greedy for power and control. It is important to spread the evils of the Great Reset before there is no turning back. Excellent research by Glenn Beck to expose the Great Reset through the supporters' own writings and quotes. No conspiracy theory, just the facts and history of the evil movement. A must read for freedom loving people who want to preserve America as we know it.
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225 reviews
January 19, 2022
Interesting read. No doubt the elites are trying to push through a reset of all of society. This book lays out what the plan is, what they doing to try to fulfill this plan & what you can do to stop it. But of course do your own follow up research after reading, don’t take the authors word for it. It’s full of endnotes ti follow up with. Informative and as usual depressing yet once you know the truth how can you look away?!
4 reviews
January 18, 2022
MUST READ BOOK

MAKES A COMPLICATED SUBJECT UNDERSTANDABLE! Everyone should read it as many times as necessary to grasp the seriousness of the Great Rezet.
11 reviews9 followers
February 13, 2022
An important wake up call

For anyone who has been asleep, this is a great introduction to the globalist agenda. For those of us who have been aware, it is helpful to see just how far the globalists have come in codifying their ESG (environmental, social, governance) according system into corporations and financial institutions. In particular, the section on modern monetary theory was especially eye opening.
When the true story of this pandemic comes to light, it also reveals the true identity of these resetters. It's all about money and power.
When everyone sees the genocide that this group has just orchestrated, they will be ready to read this book and take the country back.
Thanks, Glenn!
41 reviews2 followers
February 8, 2022
Open your eyes.

I never had much contact or knowledge of Gen Beck. This book certainly helps me understand what I have been missing. We all need to understand that we really can't risk being only observant bystanders and be more involved. This is a great read well worth my and your time.
2 reviews
February 3, 2022
Hard truth

5 stars for making the most complicated nonsense both digestible and humorous. Not an easy task. This book is well written and well documented. It's also scary, but these are scary times. This book has made me eager to find out more, on both sides.
58 reviews2 followers
January 26, 2022
The next three years could decide our future

The truth will set you free if you recognize it vs the misinformation disseminated in much of our media. This book provides not only truth but answers. Is America listening? READ this and make your own decision. The fate of the country rests upon an awakening.
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Author 63 books87 followers
January 25, 2022
well Written and massively Footnoted

I have read many books in this fringe opinion genre, but rarely one so well and firmly constructed that the personal opinion of the author on the cover didn’t ruin the readability.

This summary is mostly checkable facts with occasional comments inserted in the first person.

The facts, names, titles and actions of the public personalities are arranged in an order that makes sense of all the current news items you see from the mainstream outlets. You probably already know most of this material, but the obscure bits dredged up by this research team connect the dots into a new picture well worth thinking about.
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1 review
January 18, 2022
A must read

Every American who loves this country should read this book, study what is happening to this country and ACT! Inform yourself and help save our republic!
1 review
February 3, 2022
A must read for freedom lovers everywhere

It is important for each of us to understand the Great Reset that elitists, government leaders around the world, corporations and banks are trying to force on us. Trying to understand the concepts outlined herein can us combat this evil plan.
February 2, 2022
Glenn makes complex subjects easy to understand. A must read for anyone that wants to protect our freedom and way of life from those trying to destroy them. Exceedingly well researched and documented.
2 reviews
January 27, 2022
very enlightening

An eye opening account of what’s happening in our country that not many people are aware of. Especially the education system turning students against the United States.
4 reviews1 follower
January 28, 2022
An eye opener!

Glenn Beck does a great job explaining how the Great Reset is systematically advancing all around us, and gives some very strong options to help us reverse this trend and save our blessed republic!!
107 reviews
January 26, 2022
Information is power

An informative book about the current state of affairs. With footnotes galore to back all Beck has written. Research all sources listed and get involved before it is too late. It can be stopped.
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7 reviews1 follower
January 24, 2022
This is a must read for all.

Beck does a great job of attaching events and actions with real explanations that your brain will say, "Oh yeah, this all makes sense". A call to action for Americans.
340 reviews4 followers
February 25, 2022
Some scary s#%t. I was relieved by all the 1-star reviews I saw on Klaus's book (which basically is basically coming right out and confirming everything Beck alleges in this book).

I plan to do more homework . . . but this appears to be real and dangerous.
93 reviews
January 16, 2022
It was a scary look into the near future about government control
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375 reviews57 followers
March 29, 2022
After hearing so much about The Great Reset for the past couple of years, I was finally curious enough to delve into what The Great Reset actually is. From information gathered on the Internet and in this book, it is a concept that was introduced at the World Economic Forum in 2020 by multimillionaire Klaus Schwab. The idea was to use the world disruption caused by COVID-19 to restructure the world and how it operates (see Klaus Schwab’s book, COVID-19: The Great Reset). The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an organization founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab. It is composed of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people and meets annually in Davos, Switzerland. Its goal is to reshape the world for the greater good, as the WEF defines that world.

The two concepts which pose the greatest concern to me is the movement toward the Modern Monetary Theory (see this article in https://econofact.org/what-is-modern-...), which states that a government which prints its own money should be able to print as much currency as it needs to run the federal government and not be concerned about accumulated deficits. This to me flies in the face of reason, but unfortunately, many economists and politicians are becoming accepting of this concept.

The second concept which concerns me is the move toward implementing ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) requirements for governments, banking, business and individuals. The concepts are explained on the ESG|The Report website (https://www.esgthereport.com). In a nutshell, each entity is/will be assigned a score based on their ESG compliance, and this score will affect each entity’s ability to do business. To me, this sounds like the western version of China’s social credit score (see an overview of China’s social credit score at https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-so...).

This book, with its 511 references, guided me to seek out direct sources in understanding the complicated concept of The Great Reset. It is a great resource to begin one’s own research.
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