Understanding Glenn Beck’s Common Core Conspiracy Theory

Despite the fact that we spend hours every day watching Glenn Beck’s radio and television programs, we are often completely mystified by whatever “point” it is he is trying to make because … well, the ravings of a paranoid conspiracy theorist are generally kind of hard to follow.

Case in point was last night’s program where Beck warned that the government and corporations had teamed up to implement something he calls “System X’ designed to turn the nation’s schoolchildren into cogs in a corporate machine.