On his radio program today, Glenn Beck declared that “we are right now living the Milgrim Experiment” and, of course, it is all President Obama’s fault.
Beck was referencing the famous series of social psychology experiments done at Yale University back in the 1960s, which found that many people were willing to inflict increasingly painful punishments upon a subject simply because they were ordered to do so by someone in authority.
Today, the comments being left on Facebook show that this mentality has overtaken our entire society, Beck said, and it can all be traced directly back to Obama.
“Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, they’re all, in their own ways, hammering people who disagree with them,” Beck stated. “So they are setting for an example for both the left and the right, it’s okay to be vile, it’s okay to be uncivil. How are we living the experiment? Have you read Facebook lately? Have you read the comments section lately?”
“I contend, if you read Facebook, if you read anything, you read any comments right now, we are living the Milgrim Experiment,” he continued. “We are living in a time where people will say, ‘It’s okay you do that.’ And people in authority — Barack Obama is the first one, he’s the first president; if you remember, even George Bush treated Cindy Sheehan with respect, she didn’t treat him with respect but he treated her with respect. Surrogates might have said things, but the president did not, the president did not. Barack Obama was the first to say, ‘You’re walking around with your little tea bags.’ That was the beginning of the Milgrim Experiment. Somebody in authority was saying it’s okay to bash them.”
