re: #518 prairiefire

I think he is incredibly jaded with a deep, wounded streak. When he was drinking and a radio disc jockey, he called up his ex-partner’s wife. She was at home recuperating from a miscarriage. He told he disparagingly, “he couldn’t even do that right.”
He blames this behavior on the alcohol and drugs. I blame it on his character.

Yep. Being an asshole is a preexisting condition. I’ve seen people do the same alcohol or drugs and watched as it resulted in two different responses. How Beck morphed into this spokesman for a “movement”? Well, that’s above my pay grade. The only reason I can think of is that his popularity is in large part due to the “dumbing down of American.”