Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of
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Speaker 2: But I'm very, very happy to be here, as you
Speaker 2: would imagine if I could touch your life. That's my
Speaker 2: dream in life is to touch lives with good things.
Speaker 2: So it means a lot to me that you're here.
Speaker 2: Before I actually begin, I wanted to deal with a
Speaker 2: flyer that I just saw that was given out. I
Speaker 2: do this in every college that I go to. They
Speaker 2: publish things in their papers. Everything that's asserted is not true.
Speaker 2: I have a theory as to why. But before I
Speaker 2: tell you my theory, just say to those who might
Speaker 2: be here who have any disagreement with me or complete disagreement,
Speaker 2: you go first in questions, and I'm known for my
Speaker 2: very respectful demeanor, even if I don't find the question respectful,
Speaker 2: So don't worry about it. I won't eat you up.
Speaker 2: I'll show why you're wrong, but I will Uh no,
Speaker 2: that was a joke. That was a joke, but no, no, no, no, really,
Speaker 2: if you differ, you get on first. But I'll just
Speaker 2: give you an example. This is typical. By the way.
Speaker 2: My favorite, I have to admit, was the University of
Speaker 2: Wyoming about a year and a half ago. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was a professor or a student
Speaker 2: who wrote in the in the Wyoming paper that you know,
Speaker 2: the usual six herb sexist in tolerance in to phobic, homophobic, slomophobic,
Speaker 2: race is bigoted speaker is coming to campus. But they
Speaker 2: not only said that, they also said an anti submitic,
Speaker 2: which which is remarkable given that I'm a religious Jew.
Speaker 2: But you know, a lot are details on the left.
Speaker 2: They're annoying. So if you could dismiss a human being
Speaker 2: with epithets, why argue with them? So I want to
Speaker 2: give you an example. This is typical. The only reason
Speaker 2: I am mentioning this is because this is truly typical.
Speaker 2: I won't read you the whole thing. Purdue against Prager You,
Speaker 2: by the way, is that remarkable? Are you in Purdue?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, all right, Purdue against Prager? You fine?
Speaker 2: So you know that is a conservative talk show host,
Speaker 2: which immediately renders me awful. So here is example. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: many of these videos make claims that are false, unfound
Speaker 2: that it completely misleading. So every time I see that
Speaker 2: on the internet, I'll praguer you it's misleading, it's propaganda.
Speaker 2: They never ever give an example. What in four hundred videos,
Speaker 2: which include, by the way, for the record, professors at Yale, Harvard, Stanford,
Speaker 2: University of Pennsylvania. It's all over the world, Oxford. It
Speaker 2: also includes four former prime ministers. It also includes four
Speaker 2: Pulitzer Prize winners. It also includes liberals like Alan Dershowitz,
Speaker 2: who has never voted Republican in his life. But all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, all of these people tell lies. Okay,
Speaker 2: because but they never give an example. So at least
Speaker 2: to this person's credit, she gives or he gives. I
Speaker 2: say she because they told me it was a woman
Speaker 2: handing out the flyer. Four examples of how we are
Speaker 2: completely misleading and unfounded. Here are a few. Fossil fuels
Speaker 2: are the greatest energy source from the YouTube video fossil
Speaker 2: fuels the greatest energy? What is misleading about that? Do
Speaker 2: you know how ignorant this person must be not to
Speaker 2: know that fossil fuels have been the greatest energy source
Speaker 2: in the history of humanity that were not for fossil fuels,
Speaker 2: there would be no hospitals, no cars, no transportation, nothing.
Speaker 2: There would be We would be living in the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2: People are living and living longer than ever before thanks
Speaker 2: to dinosaurs. It is one of their great gifts to
Speaker 2: us with their fossils. It's mind blowing to deny it. Now.
Speaker 2: You could say we shouldn't rely on it anymore. That's
Speaker 2: a perfectly legitimate position. But I only know it's legitimate
Speaker 2: if you're then for nuclear power. If you're not for
Speaker 2: nuclear power and not for fossil fuel, you're a hysteric
Speaker 2: because no, no, no, that's definitional. Nuclear power is clean and
Speaker 2: available and supports the beloved by the left. Sweden forty
Speaker 2: percent of its energies from nuclear power, and it'll soon
Speaker 2: be half of its nuclear energy. So what is misleading
Speaker 2: about that? It has been the greatest, the greenest, sorry,
Speaker 2: the greenest, that says the greenest. Yes, it has been
Speaker 2: the greenest, and will it be Okay, that's a great question. Next,
Speaker 2: net neutrality is good for consumers and anti authoritarian Okay,
Speaker 2: we know good people could differ on that neutrality. We
Speaker 2: just are suspicious of it because anything the government runs
Speaker 2: is less free. That's it, that's all. There may be
Speaker 2: arguments in the other direction, but why ruin what has
Speaker 2: already been free? Number three, FDR's new deal further worse
Speaker 2: than the Great Depression? You know who gives that course?
Speaker 2: A professor of economics that U see, La. This is
Speaker 2: not like we picked somebody off the street and said,
Speaker 2: what do you think of FDR's new deal? We want
Speaker 2: to do a video with you. We asked the professor
Speaker 2: of economics that you see, la, leo'hannion. Now you may
Speaker 2: differ with him, who may agree with him, But why exactly?
Speaker 2: Is that completely misleading and unfounded? And it is inconceivable
Speaker 2: the person who did this actually watch that. They saw
Speaker 2: the title number four, The minimum wage should be zero dollars?
Speaker 2: What's the right minimum wage? So here is a very
Speaker 2: interesting little thing for you on that. In the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 2: the New York Times, when it was liberal not leftist.
Speaker 2: There's a big difference. When it was liberal. You could
Speaker 2: check it. You should check it. This was the headline
Speaker 2: of its lead editorial, the right minimum wage zero dollars,
Speaker 2: zero cents. New York Times editorial in the seventies. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I guess the New York Times was completely misleading
Speaker 2: and unfounded, which it often is. So maybe maybe that's
Speaker 2: what the person had in mind, you know, by the way,
Speaker 2: it's The minimum wage issue is a very interesting one
Speaker 2: to me because I think in moral terms, not political terms.
Speaker 2: I think of right and wrong, what helps people, what
Speaker 2: hurts people, and I believe that the fifteen dollars minimum
Speaker 2: wage hurts people. Otherwise i'd support it. I'm for helping people.
Speaker 2: I a believer in that, but I believe it hurts
Speaker 2: people for a lot of reasons, including that far few
Speaker 2: get hired. I could tell you that since they raised
Speaker 2: it in Los Angeles recently, I am at the LAX
Speaker 2: that's the Los Angeles International Airport virtually every week, and
Speaker 2: I noticed that the lines are getting longer at Starbucks
Speaker 2: and elsewhere, and I asked them, why why do you
Speaker 2: have so few people working here? Because they raised the
Speaker 2: minimum wage, That's exactly why. So it hurts everybody. Fewer
Speaker 2: people get employed. The consumer is hurt. People will either
Speaker 2: miss their plane or not get their food. But it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter because you have to understand A major animating
Speaker 2: impulse on the left is do I feel good about myself.
Speaker 2: The question am I doing good? Is not a left
Speaker 2: wing question. Does it do good is a conservative question?
Speaker 2: Do I feel good is a liberal question. That's very
Speaker 2: important distinction. I am not interested in feeling good, or
Speaker 2: let's put it this way, I am, but it's secondary
Speaker 2: to doing good. I will talk about that and the
Speaker 2: conflict between feelings and actions, which is a big part
Speaker 2: of what I want to talk to you about, or
Speaker 2: a major part next it says here the viewpoints make
Speaker 2: sense when looking at the funding sources for praguer you.
Speaker 2: The main source of funding for praguer you is Dan
Speaker 2: and Ferris Wilkes, billionaires who profit off hydraulic fracking. That
Speaker 2: is a one hundred percent lie. One hundred percent at most.
Speaker 2: They have given us ten percent of our funds at most. Okay,
Speaker 2: And by the way, we came out with these videos
Speaker 2: before they gave us any money. They gave us money
Speaker 2: in part because they liked our values. We didn't change
Speaker 2: our values because we got money that would render me
Speaker 2: a prostitute, which, by the way, which bothers me, not
Speaker 2: because it bothers me about me. It bothers me about
Speaker 2: prostitutes because it's not a fair thing to label them
Speaker 2: in such a negative way. But it's just a lie. Okay.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they haven't funded us at least
Speaker 2: I think now for two years. It just is what
Speaker 2: it is. Additionally, the others are irrelevant. But except for this,
Speaker 2: the Linda and Harry Bradley Foundation have given over two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars to support their conservative ideals, including suppressing
Speaker 2: student speech on college campuses. Okay, since you left, there's
Speaker 2: no reason for me to go on with that. Okay,
Speaker 2: though this is the stuff that is normal when discussing
Speaker 2: a preger university because they don't have good answers. You
Speaker 2: don't know the rigorous fact checking. And let me just
Speaker 2: speak personally, I would never attach my name to anything
Speaker 2: that compromised on truth. Lies are the root of evil.
Speaker 2: Lies gave us the Holocaust, live lies gave us the
Speaker 2: Gulag Archipelago. I hate lies. I hate them with every
Speaker 2: fiber in my body. I am so strict about truth
Speaker 2: that I've been broadcasting for thirty five years, and I
Speaker 2: I will tell you that when I read ads, I
Speaker 2: often change the copy. I'll give you one little example.
Speaker 2: It says this is very common on radio. So here's
Speaker 2: a for my listeners only if you use Preger, you
Speaker 2: will get a twenty percent discount. But it's not true.
Speaker 2: The advertiser says that, but it's not true. You will
Speaker 2: get a twenty percent discount if you use my name,
Speaker 2: but you'll also get a twenty percent discount if you
Speaker 2: use any of my colleagues names. So I drop only.
Speaker 2: I rewrite the script if there's the slightest nobody picks
Speaker 2: up on it. But I just want you to know
Speaker 2: how committed I am to truth. What we do before
Speaker 2: a video ever appears at Prager University, which is why
Speaker 2: they never caught us on anything. This is the stuff
Speaker 2: that they write on the internet, oh, misinformation, propaganda, misinformat.
Speaker 2: But they never give an example. There aren't examples. By
Speaker 2: the way, if we caught an example, we would list
Speaker 2: we made a mistake, we have something in correct. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what I want to what I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about is life. What you don't what you
Speaker 2: probably don't learn at college that I'd like to share
Speaker 2: with you, which is no knock on Purdue. Uh as far,
Speaker 2: I don't know enough about Purdue to incorporate it into
Speaker 2: my general low opinion of American universities. UH, and I
Speaker 2: mean that sincerely. It may there are some fine ones
Speaker 2: that are not dominated by people who have agendas that
Speaker 2: are indoctrination rather than education. So whatever I am saying
Speaker 2: may or may not apply here, but it's it's irrelevant.
Speaker 2: The odds are, even at a wonderful university, you're not
Speaker 2: learning what I am about. UH. To mention to you,
Speaker 2: which is UH should be life shaping. If you take
Speaker 2: what I tell you now seriously, it will change your life.
Speaker 2: Which is almost wrong for a speaker to say, because
Speaker 2: I'm setting myself up for failure, because if I didn't
Speaker 2: change your life, I did fail. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I do feel that way. I don't speak for the
Speaker 2: hell of it. I speak because I want to change
Speaker 2: people's lives for the better. That's what I've always wanted
Speaker 2: to do. That's why I'm here today.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Brager's Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: Okay, not in order of importance, but just a few items.
Speaker 2: Number one, Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing.
Speaker 2: Wisdom is infinitely more important than knowledge, and we are
Speaker 2: in the age of anti wisdom. I realized this when
Speaker 2: I was a graduate school. In my case, it was
Speaker 2: Columbia University in New York, where I grew up, and
Speaker 2: I knew I was being taught a lot of nonsense,
Speaker 2: which was very troubling. This was in the seventies, with
Speaker 2: a still of Vietnam era demonstrations takeovers of offices. Nothing
Speaker 2: much has changed, just the causes of change, but the
Speaker 2: takeovers of officers have stayed the same. I want you
Speaker 2: to know is a very difficult time for me. I
Speaker 2: felt very lonely because I didn't share my fellow students
Speaker 2: or faculties values, and it was a lonely time. But
Speaker 2: it's okay. I didn't mind that because I had close friends.
Speaker 2: My life was fine, but it was lonely. But what
Speaker 2: much worse than that was I felt that I needed
Speaker 2: to answer a question, why are intelligent people teaching me nonsense?
Speaker 2: And I remember two specific examples. One was I was
Speaker 2: at the School of International Affairs, where I studied Communist affairs.
Speaker 2: I was at the Russian Institute of the Fool of
Speaker 2: International Affairs, and I was taught by my professors that
Speaker 2: the US and the Soviet Union were essentially moral equivalents,
Speaker 2: that It wasn't the battle of freedom and tyranny. It
Speaker 2: was a battle of capitalism and communism, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: is true. It was a battle of capitalism in communism.
Speaker 2: Capitalism is free and communism is tyranny. But it was
Speaker 2: never put that way. It was put as a battle
Speaker 2: of economic, not moral systems. But it was a battle
Speaker 2: of moral systems. There was no comparison. I had been
Speaker 2: to the Soviet Union. There's no comparison. So I realized
Speaker 2: there's no wisdom here, there's nonsense. The other one, which
Speaker 2: continues to this day is men and women are basically
Speaker 2: the same. Even though I had no sister, I knew
Speaker 2: this was nonsense. I mean, everybody who was uneducated knows
Speaker 2: it's nonsense. It's the well educated who have trouble with
Speaker 2: the issue, which shows you what well educated means. I
Speaker 2: know somebody, for example, as a professor of gender studies,
Speaker 2: I assume they don't think clearly. Now this this is
Speaker 2: not meant. This is not meant to insult them. I
Speaker 2: know it's an insult. I'm not going to say it's
Speaker 2: a compliment, but I don't say it. I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't say it because I get a joy out of insulting.
Speaker 2: There is so much nonsense. Do you know that in
Speaker 2: Connecticut last month there were high school girls girls' high
Speaker 2: school track championships in Connecticut, two transgender girls race. That
Speaker 2: means male bodies who identify as girls. That's fine. If
Speaker 2: you identify as a girl, you look like a girl,
Speaker 2: act like a girl, take a girl's name. I will
Speaker 2: refer to you as a girl. Just for the record.
Speaker 2: I want you to know that. But I'm not going
Speaker 2: to live the law that you no longer have a
Speaker 2: male body. I mean that you that you do. Forget genitalia,
Speaker 2: you have the body. You don't run with your genitals.
Speaker 2: You run with your legs, you run with your you
Speaker 2: run with your body. So who won the race first
Speaker 2: place and second place? Look it up, Connecticut high school
Speaker 2: transgender race. To the two male bodied females won the race.
Speaker 2: Not only won the race, defeating all the female body runners. Obviously,
Speaker 2: they not only won the race, they set records in
Speaker 2: Connecticut for girls track. So that bumped off two girls
Speaker 2: with girls bodies off. So to the entire left, this
Speaker 2: is fair. This is fair. Girls can run against male
Speaker 2: bodies and lose. That's fair, by the way, not one
Speaker 2: feminist group came to defend the girls, which proves something
Speaker 2: I have always believed. Feminism doesn't give a damn about women.
Speaker 2: Feminism is just as by the way, just as communism
Speaker 2: never gave a damn about workers. They used workers to
Speaker 2: further their left wing agenda. Feminism uses women to further
Speaker 2: its left wing agenda. Women are a tool for feminism
Speaker 2: and feminist groups and workers are a tool for communism.
Speaker 2: This is what this is. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: is proof. How could feminist organizations not speak up on
Speaker 2: behalf of the girls of Connecticut. Martina Narbertulova, who was
Speaker 2: a tennis champion about twenty years ago, major World Tennis
Speaker 2: champion and gay and was a major factor for accepting
Speaker 2: gays in sports. She was a gay activist. She said,
Speaker 2: this is not fair to women. To have transgender women,
Speaker 2: that is, women with male bodies play against us is
Speaker 2: not fair. She was kicked out of every LGBTQ organization.
Speaker 2: To give you an idea of their moral state, mart
Speaker 2: a lifelong gay activist for LGBT and now Q activism,
Speaker 2: and she was kicked out of the movement because they're totalitarian.
Speaker 2: That's why. So I was taught boys and girls, male
Speaker 2: and female, they're basically the same. By the way, I
Speaker 2: could give you a speech just on that. I'll give
Speaker 2: you one more example. The president, former president of Harvard,
Speaker 2: gave a speech in which he noted that he bought
Speaker 2: the idea that the only reason boys prefer trucks and
Speaker 2: girls prefer dolls is because that's what society gives them.
Speaker 2: So he decided he bought the ideas of liberal, not
Speaker 2: a leftist. And he decided he would give I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's Christmas or whatever birthday, he gave his daughter trucks.
Speaker 2: So he tells the story again, you could look this up.
Speaker 2: So he gave the daughter trucks that evening, he hears
Speaker 2: nothing from her room, knocks on the door or opens
Speaker 2: the door, and she goes, sh I'm putting the trucks
Speaker 2: to sleep. Look it up. Former president of Harvard. By
Speaker 2: the way, he was dropped as president of Harvard because
Speaker 2: of comments like that. Harvard does not tolerate any descent
Speaker 2: from the left any more than any other school, even
Speaker 2: in its president. Of course, men and women are basically different.
Speaker 2: So I realized there was no wisdom at Columbia. There
Speaker 2: was a lot of knowledge let me give you one
Speaker 2: more example of the difference between knowledge and wisdom. A
Speaker 2: map gives you knowledge, no wisdom. A map tells you
Speaker 2: exactly where you are. Wisdom tells you where you want
Speaker 2: to go. They have nothing in common. It's good to
Speaker 2: know where you are if you know where you want
Speaker 2: to go, but if you don't know where you want
Speaker 2: to go, it is useless to know where you are.
Speaker 2: You get I don't know about I mean, and I'm
Speaker 2: not being cute. I don't know anything about your college
Speaker 2: in this regard. But no college I know of, with
Speaker 2: a handful of exceptions, gives wisdom. That is not their
Speaker 2: intent they get they are places of anti wisdom. By
Speaker 2: the way, my theory is and it's on the it's
Speaker 2: two of my columns that are on the internet are
Speaker 2: about this. How I found God at Columbia is about that,
Speaker 2: and that was twenty five years ago and just two
Speaker 2: weeks ago. How the Left keeps me religious. It's worth
Speaker 2: reading because it really does explain what is going on.
Speaker 2: I believe anyway, wisdom is more important than knowledge. The
Speaker 2: encyclopedias have knowledge, the Internet has knowledge, but wisdom. Where
Speaker 2: do you get wisdom? We have knocked the foundations of
Speaker 2: wisdom out. The latest Prigger You video this week just
Speaker 2: happens to be Ben Shapiro speaking about the twin pillars
Speaker 2: of Western civilization Athens in Jerusalem, Athens with reason and
Speaker 2: Jerusalem with revelation. You need God and reason. That's what
Speaker 2: the West has had. We have knocked out Athens. People
Speaker 2: aren't studying Athens, and certainly people aren't studying the Bible,
Speaker 2: and as a result, we live in, without question, the
Speaker 2: dumbest age in American history, without question, that people could
Speaker 2: believe things like men and women are basically the same,
Speaker 2: or that socialism is preferable to capitalism. It is if
Speaker 2: you want power, but if you want to help people,
Speaker 2: it's awful. Only one economic system has ever lifted billions
Speaker 2: of people from poverty. Only one economic system is lifted
Speaker 2: millions of people from poverty. Only one economic system is
Speaker 2: lifted hundreds of thousands of people from poverty, and it's capitalism.
Speaker 2: But they don't care because they're seduced by the leftist
Speaker 2: god equality. It doesn't bother them if people are not
Speaker 2: well off. It bothers them that people are well off.
Speaker 2: It's a major violation, if you will, of the tenth commandment,
Speaker 2: don't covet what others have. Okay. Number two that was
Speaker 2: knowledge and wisdom. Number two, people are not basically good.
Speaker 2: I divide the world between fools and non fools. This
Speaker 2: is my first question. Do you think people are basically good?
Speaker 2: If you do, you're foolish by definition. And this is
Speaker 2: an staggeringly important thing to understand. Nobody rooted in Judaism
Speaker 2: or Christianity, or for that matter, Buddhism, or for that matter,
Speaker 2: any traditional way of looking at life, has ever thought
Speaker 2: people are basically good. It is fundamental to the Judeo
Speaker 2: Christian Western civilization understanding that human nature is not basically good.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it's evil. Obviously, if it was pure evil,
Speaker 2: then nobody would do any good. But it's not basically good.
Speaker 2: I had a fascinating evening in Berkeley last year, and
Speaker 2: I knew there would be a lot of demonstrators, so
Speaker 2: I decided I would forestall all demonstrations by announcing I
Speaker 2: won't give a speech. I'll just dialogue with two leftist
Speaker 2: students you choose. So there were no demonstrations, and I
Speaker 2: got all my points in any way so you could
Speaker 2: see it. It's on YouTube until they take it down.
Speaker 2: So it is so I dialogue with these two left
Speaker 2: wing students at Berkeley, and what I do. I have
Speaker 2: a motto on my radio show. I prefer clarity, new agreement.
Speaker 2: It's a terrific motto to go through life. Whenever people
Speaker 2: call up to disagree with you, which is regularly, or
Speaker 2: I have a guest on, I say at the outset,
Speaker 2: I'm not here to convince you you're wrong or that
Speaker 2: I'm right. I just want to clarify for my listeners
Speaker 2: where we differ. By the way I tell this to
Speaker 2: marry couples, instead of fighting, just start out with let's
Speaker 2: get clear where we differ. And you have no idea.
Speaker 2: How many couples have told me it has helped their
Speaker 2: marriage immensely because then they were like, well, maybe we
Speaker 2: don't differ that much, or oh, that's your point, and
Speaker 2: then you could yell at each other. I'm not saying no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you can't yell at each other. But
Speaker 2: before you yell at each other, find out why you're
Speaker 2: really different. So I would raise issues and then I
Speaker 2: would say they would tell me there left wing viewpoint,
Speaker 2: and I would tell them the common sense viewpoint. So
Speaker 2: that's the way it worked that even so I ended,
Speaker 2: I said, my final question, do you believe people are
Speaker 2: basically good? And of course they both said yes, you
Speaker 2: could watch this. So I said to them, after they
Speaker 2: told me why, I said, there is only one reason
Speaker 2: you believe something that is so unbelievably wrong, and that
Speaker 2: is you live in America, where people are pretty good.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons for our troubles is people compare
Speaker 2: America to Utopia, not to the rest of the world.
Speaker 2: That's what the left does. America is racist. Do you
Speaker 2: have any idea what racism is like in the rest
Speaker 2: of the world. You don't have a clue. Is the
Speaker 2: least racist, multi racial country in the history of the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is worth applauding. Not me, America is worth applauding.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Bragger's timeless wisdom.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so I said, that's the only reason you believe it.
Speaker 2: You're naive. Now, when you're twenty and you're naive, there
Speaker 2: could be an excuse. But if you're forty on naive,
Speaker 2: there's no excuse. Then you decided to be a fool.
Speaker 2: How you can know anything about the human condition and
Speaker 2: think people are basically good. It is amazing. The same
Speaker 2: people who believe people are basically good say America is sexist,
Speaker 2: and tolerance and and phobic, omophobic, is lomophobic, raising figurted.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Where did all of that horrors
Speaker 2: come from? If people are basically good? How did that happen?
Speaker 2: But they don't think, they don't they feel, and they emote.
Speaker 2: Do you understand how idiotic it is? As country stinks,
Speaker 2: but people are basically good. All lights are racist, but
Speaker 2: people are basically good. How could that be? How could
Speaker 2: that be? What is wrong with you? Quit? It's slavery?
Speaker 2: Do you know that every place on earth, every society
Speaker 2: in human history not only had slavery, had human sacrifice.
Speaker 2: People are basically good? You know any history any at all?
Speaker 2: Do you know how much corruption there is in the world.
Speaker 2: Do you know the reason that the Third World doesn't
Speaker 2: advance more is solely because of corruption. They have the brains,
Speaker 2: the talent, the natural resources. It's corruption because people cheat
Speaker 2: each other. I've been to one hundred and thirty countries,
Speaker 2: including twenty African countries, so the last time I was
Speaker 2: in West Africa. My driver I don't remember if it
Speaker 2: was Togo or ben In, it doesn't matter, but I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you one of the two countries. So the
Speaker 2: driver said to my wife and me and the couple
Speaker 2: we were with, I said, watch this. So sure enough,
Speaker 2: we were driving and there was a police obstacle in
Speaker 2: the road, a block, a blockade, or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2: And they said, watch it. Now. In America, if the
Speaker 2: police stop your car, it's because there's construction or there
Speaker 2: was an accident. I mean, I'm not talking about if
Speaker 2: you were speeding or you're drunk driving, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're driving fine, they will stop because hold it here
Speaker 2: a minute, we're getting traffic this way, right. But he
Speaker 2: knew exactly why he was going to be stopped, and
Speaker 2: he was right. The policeman came over, took money from
Speaker 2: the guy and let him through. That was it. That's
Speaker 2: normal on planet Earth. That is the norm in America.
Speaker 2: It's virtually unheard of in the world. It is the
Speaker 2: norm people to believe people are basically good. After the
Speaker 2: twentieth century, one hundred million people non combatants, one hundred
Speaker 2: million non combatants butchered by other human beings, not to
Speaker 2: mention enslaved and raped and tortured people are basically good.
Speaker 2: You're out of your mind. Babies aren't even basically good. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're innocent, but they're not good. I want mommy, I
Speaker 2: want nipple, I want to be taken, I want to
Speaker 2: be hell, I want to be comforted. And if you
Speaker 2: do not do all of this immediately, I will ruin
Speaker 2: your day. The idea babies or want to be talking.
Speaker 2: They're good until they're corrupted by patriarchy. That's what you talk.
Speaker 2: That's what the left believes in their make believe world.
Speaker 2: Ask parents how often they have to tell their kid
Speaker 2: to say thank you? Maybe you even remember I raised
Speaker 2: two kids. If I didn't say say thank you ten
Speaker 2: thousand times, I didn't say it once. But if kids
Speaker 2: were basically good, I would have had to say it once.
Speaker 2: I'd say say thank you, and the kid would say,
Speaker 2: you know, my father's right. If somebody does something nice
Speaker 2: for me, I should say thank you, of course, and
Speaker 2: that would be it. Why do you have to tell
Speaker 2: a kid to say thank you, which we're basically good,
Speaker 2: they would know it immediately. So how about sharing comes
Speaker 2: very natural to kids to share, doesn't it. That's this
Speaker 2: alone is why I know the Left is foolish, because
Speaker 2: they start with this moronic premise. People don't rape and
Speaker 2: murder in America because human nature is flawed. No, it's
Speaker 2: because of racism and poverty. That's what they believe. I
Speaker 2: remember when I first heard poverty courses crime, and I thought,
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I was younger than you, and I
Speaker 2: remember thinking of my grandfather, who was quite poor, as
Speaker 2: was his wife, my grandmother. They were very poor, really
Speaker 2: poor if it weren't for my father giving them money periodically,
Speaker 2: and we were en rich, but we were middle class.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they would have done, but I
Speaker 2: remember thinking, how come my grandfather hasn't held up a
Speaker 2: bank or mugged anyone, And to the best of my knowledge,
Speaker 2: he hasn't raped anybody. Now why is that? And they
Speaker 2: were Jewish, they were impoverished. There was anti Semitism in America.
Speaker 2: But if you would have said to my grandfather, you
Speaker 2: know you're poor and there's anti Semitism, so I really
Speaker 2: think it makes sense if you would rob, he would
Speaker 2: think you had lost your mind. He knew God said
Speaker 2: you don't steal, do not steal ends the issue. It
Speaker 2: doesn't say poor people can steal. It doesn't say victims
Speaker 2: can steal. Do not steal. Yes, if you're starving to
Speaker 2: death and the next guy has more bread, you can
Speaker 2: take the bread. Okay, that is not an issue in America.
Speaker 2: No one is starving to death in the United States
Speaker 2: of America. But that's what the left has to believe.
Speaker 2: There are outside forces, not inner forces, that caused people
Speaker 2: to do bad. People do bad. Every religious Jewish Christian
Speaker 2: knows why. Because they didn't get their wisdom from Colombia.
Speaker 2: They got their wisdom from the Bible, which has been
Speaker 2: the source of wisdom. Lincoln, who never went to church,
Speaker 2: said this is God's greatest gift to mankind, the Bible.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm working on a Bible commentary, Volume
Speaker 2: two is coming out next month called the Rational Bible.
Speaker 2: And I came to realize sort of midway in life,
Speaker 2: Bible free is wisdom free. And because I realize that's
Speaker 2: where I got my wisdom, I can give you. I listen,
Speaker 2: if I were here a week, I would one of
Speaker 2: my lectures would be wisdom from the Bible. It would
Speaker 2: blow your mind. I'll give you one little example aside
Speaker 2: from it, by the way, it says people are not
Speaker 2: basically good Christians and Jews. Got it, got it from that.
Speaker 2: I knew this when I was a child, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'll give you one example, not just the wisdom
Speaker 2: from the Bible, one example of how this changed my life.
Speaker 2: I was taught that the biggest problem in Dennis Prager's
Speaker 2: life is Dennis Prager. That's a very different way of
Speaker 2: growing up. You know how liberals raise their kids. The
Speaker 2: biggest problem in your life is America. That's sick. It
Speaker 2: is morally sick. You are the biggest problem in your life.
Speaker 2: And everyone who knows that is a better person, and
Speaker 2: anyone who denies it is a worse person. If you
Speaker 2: don't fight your nature, there's no chance of your becoming
Speaker 2: a good person, no chance anyway. I give you an example,
Speaker 2: one of hundreds, and I really do hope you'll read. Listen.
Speaker 2: I have no problem. I have a problem. I'm always
Speaker 2: self conscious about pushing something I did. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: nobody writes Bible commentaries to get wealthy. Okay? Is that fair?
Speaker 2: Are we on agreement on that? Okay? So I it
Speaker 2: would change you. I'll give you one example, ten commandments,
Speaker 2: honor your father and mother. Very interesting. The same Bible
Speaker 2: says love God, love, love your neighbor, love the stranger.
Speaker 2: In the New Testament, love your enemies, and in uh
Speaker 2: but no, love your parents. Bible never tells you to
Speaker 2: love your parents. You don't have to love your parents,
Speaker 2: you only have to honor them. You know how life
Speaker 2: changing that is for kids who have which most people
Speaker 2: do at some point, emotional ambivalence towards a parent, You
Speaker 2: know how relieving that is. That's that's Bible wisdom for you.
Speaker 2: So this people not basically good. You have to battle yourself.
Speaker 2: Is this? You're not taught at college. You have to
Speaker 2: battle you. And by the way, men have their own
Speaker 2: battles in addition to the human battle, men have men
Speaker 2: battles and women have women battles. Men have two basic
Speaker 2: battles with their nature. They're aggressive naturally and their sexual
Speaker 2: predators naturally. Okay, that is that is male nature. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the proof of the second and one
Speaker 2: that it has nothing to do with patriarchy or sexism,
Speaker 2: is gay men are just exactly like straight men. Their
Speaker 2: nature is identical to straight men. The only difference is
Speaker 2: the object of their desire, but their nature is exactly
Speaker 2: the same their sexual predators. Heterosexual men are sexual predators.
Speaker 2: They control themselves. The male you most admire is this
Speaker 2: is true about him too. There is no exception unless
Speaker 2: he has been castrated. I'm not being cute. That's the
Speaker 2: only possible exception. But women have battles too, And because
Speaker 2: we have grown up in this unwise world where we
Speaker 2: have only taught boys to battle their natures, a lot
Speaker 2: of women have suffered. Because if girls aren't taught to
Speaker 2: battle their natures, they'll never be happy. You can't be
Speaker 2: happy if you don't fight your nature. So there are
Speaker 2: two things in women. They're related, and that is emotions.
Speaker 2: They have to battle their emotions to not let them
Speaker 2: control them, and they have to battle their malcontentedness. That's
Speaker 2: my column this week. Are women malcontented? That's what bat
Speaker 2: Women have to battle. Parents don't do it. Parents think
Speaker 2: girls are terrific, boys are awful, so they tell boys
Speaker 2: to battle themselves. And if girls are not taught to
Speaker 2: battle themselves, they'll never be happy because if you're controlled
Speaker 2: by your emotions, your chances for happiness are zero. So,
Speaker 2: both morally and in terms of happiness. You have to
Speaker 2: battle yourself. That's number two. Human nature is not basically good.
Speaker 2: Number three, Feelings aren't important to anyone except you and
Speaker 2: your shrink. That is it. Maybe your parents too, But
Speaker 2: that's it. There are about, what is it, seven billion
Speaker 2: people in the world. None of the other seven billion
Speaker 2: care how you feel. All seven care how you act.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you're the same about the other
Speaker 2: seven billion. You don't care how they feel. You care
Speaker 2: how they act. When I go to Starbucks and they
Speaker 2: treat me really nicely, I don't really think they're treating
Speaker 2: me really nicely because they're really nice or because they
Speaker 2: really like me. They're doing so because Starbucks said be
Speaker 2: nice to all the customers. That's fine with me. I
Speaker 2: have no issue with that. I don't care why you're
Speaker 2: nice to me. I only care that you're nice to me,
Speaker 2: that you don't cheat me, that you greet me with
Speaker 2: a smile, that you say thank you. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: Maybe with a spouse, feelings really matter because you love
Speaker 2: your spouse. Fine, I understand that. But even with spouses, still,
Speaker 2: how you behave towards your spouse is more important than
Speaker 2: how you feel. You know, how many people have abused
Speaker 2: a spouse and thought they loved that spouse. Doesn't really count,
Speaker 2: does it. We live in the age of feelings. Leftism
Speaker 2: is rooted in feelings. I feel X. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: I feel I I am offended, I am triggered, I
Speaker 2: am you you name it. A conservative speaker comes to campus.
Speaker 2: I need a safe rule. By the way, Adam, Carol
Speaker 2: and I are coming out with a film later this
Speaker 2: year called No Safe Spaces. It's exactly about that. You'll
Speaker 2: you'll love it. It's it's funny and and very and
Speaker 2: and very frightening at the same time. And so this
Speaker 2: is a subject I'm only too well aware of how
Speaker 2: people feel. I'm affronted, I'm offended, I'm i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm,
Speaker 2: i'm it's all, it's all narcissistic. How you feel is
Speaker 2: not important in any arena. I'm sorry, but that's that's good.
Speaker 2: Behavior is everything in morality. Behavior is everything. You meant well,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You didn't mean well, Also, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Is capitalism based on greed? Maybe it is, but it
Speaker 2: does good. Is socialism based on altruism? Maybe it is,
Speaker 2: but it does bad. So it only matters what it does.
Speaker 2: I don't care what what the what the things are.
Speaker 2: I remember people who would tell me, oh, the only
Speaker 2: reason this guy gave all that money the u c
Speaker 2: l A. Was to have his name on that on
Speaker 2: that hospital wing, And I thought, why is that bad?
Speaker 2: Isn't it great for all the people who will now
Speaker 2: be treated in that hospital wing? So you're gonna dismiss
Speaker 2: what he did because he wants his name on it?
Speaker 2: Are you out of your mind? Did you ever need
Speaker 2: a hospital? This is this is This is the wisdom
Speaker 2: free thinking of our time. Behavior is every and by
Speaker 2: the way, behavior is everything. I wrote a book on happiness,
Speaker 2: and uh I broadcast an hour a week on happiness.
Speaker 2: I've talked my whole life, or most of my life unhappy.
Speaker 2: I know a lot about the subject, and I've helped
Speaker 2: a lot of people. And the first thing I say
Speaker 2: is act happy, then you'll feel happy. Don't wait to
Speaker 2: act happy till you feel it. It's your doomed Act
Speaker 2: happy even if you don't feel it. They did studies
Speaker 2: people who smiled felt happier. Just smile and you'll be happier.
Speaker 2: By the way, a big part of the left right
Speaker 2: battle is the happy versus the unhappy. I've never met
Speaker 2: a happy leftist. I've met happy liberals. I've met some
Speaker 2: unhappy conservatives, but I never met a happy leftist. How
Speaker 2: could they be If you're a black and you're on
Speaker 2: the left, and you believe every white hates you, how
Speaker 2: could you be happy? Think about it. You're taught to
Speaker 2: be unhappy. News flash, most whites don't dislike blacks. Most
Speaker 2: whites in America don't give a damn what your color is,
Speaker 2: which is the way it should be, but that is
Speaker 2: considered even bad. What I don't respect race, No, that's racist.
Speaker 2: To respect race. I respect character, personality, temperament, goodness, but
Speaker 2: not race. Doesn't mean a damn thing to me. What
Speaker 2: race was Adam? Okay, I believe in the Bible what
Speaker 2: race was Adam None. So from the very beginning is
Speaker 2: clear the only distinction God gives a hoot about is
Speaker 2: the male female distinction. God created the human being male
Speaker 2: and female. He created them, and it's the only intrinsic
Speaker 2: distinction that matters to the God of the Bible. Now
Speaker 2: number four, America, and then I'll have all the time
Speaker 2: you want for Q and a America America has a trinity,
Speaker 2: just like Christianity does. The American trinity is found. I
Speaker 2: didn't make it up. It's on every coin. Have you
Speaker 2: all seen coins? Or you only use credit cards? No? No,
Speaker 2: I don't even know anymore what to expect? You know?
Speaker 2: The other day I inscribed my book to a high
Speaker 2: school kid. So I wrote it incursive, and I go,
Speaker 2: can you read what I wrote you? He goes, no, Now,
Speaker 2: what does the guy learned? Carbon emissions condoms on bananas?
Speaker 2: I mean, what what does he? I don't understand. What
Speaker 2: if you can't readcursive in high school? What are you learning?
Speaker 2: Do you know what a preposition is? Nope? Have you
Speaker 2: ever diagrammed the sentence? I'll but you? None of you
Speaker 2: ever heard of it. Unless you went to some ritzy
Speaker 2: witsy witsy titsy high school. We diagram sentences, you would show.
Speaker 2: This is a predicate, This is a subject. This is
Speaker 2: an adjective. This is an adverb. It's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons I speaking right well is because I was taught
Speaker 2: the English language. Well well, it is a an adverb.
Speaker 2: Good is an adjective. Just I just want to throw
Speaker 2: it out there, but it gets tricky. Because if you
Speaker 2: say he just recuperated from his surgery and is well,
Speaker 2: then it's an adjective. Have I really thrown you for
Speaker 2: a loop?
Speaker 1: Okay, this episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Bragor's timeless wisdom.
Speaker 2: Every coin has three things on it that stand for America. Liberty,
Speaker 2: e pluribus unim, and in God we trust. That is
Speaker 2: the American trinity. Christianity has the Father of the Son
Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit. Judaism has God tore in Israel.
Speaker 2: There are trinities all over the place. The left has
Speaker 2: a trinity race, gender, and class. Everybody has trinities. So
Speaker 2: the American trinity is liberty and God we trust e pluribustuna.
Speaker 2: Let me explain them in a nutshell. Then you'll know
Speaker 2: what this country was founded to stand for and the
Speaker 2: war against. All three of these begin with liberty. Number
Speaker 2: one about liberty. Liberty is a value, not an instinct.
Speaker 2: Get the difference. This is really important. People do not
Speaker 2: yearn to be free. That is a common misconception. If
Speaker 2: they did, why would we have liberty that the founders
Speaker 2: didn't put breathing? Because breathing comes naturally, Breathing is not
Speaker 2: a value. Breathing is an instinct. Liberty is not an instinct.
Speaker 2: By the way, I got that from the Bible too.
Speaker 2: Israelites get have their exodus. God takes them out of
Speaker 2: slavery in Egypt, and right away they're complaining, we want
Speaker 2: to go back. The food was batter reread it. It's
Speaker 2: in the Book of Exodus and in the Book of Numbers,
Speaker 2: the fourth book, and that awesome. It's such a great lesson.
Speaker 2: You know what, We rather be slaves, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: is what the left view is, they rather enslave and
Speaker 2: be slaves because that's equality. Do you know how many
Speaker 2: people celebrated the Castro Revolution and communism in Cuba and
Speaker 2: do so to this day. Or Chavez in Venezuela. The
Speaker 2: people of Venezuela are unbelievably suffering, but he has a
Speaker 2: revolution for equality. Slaves are equal. One of the great
Speaker 2: things about slavery is it has equality. The only non
Speaker 2: equality or among the slave owners who are the communist
Speaker 2: party apparatus or the Socialist party apparatus, But that doesn't
Speaker 2: matter to a lot of people. It's equality. It's like
Speaker 2: people tell you don't know how often I find this. Listen,
Speaker 2: what are you knocking Castro for? Do you know that
Speaker 2: the healthcare in Cuba is egalitarian? That's right, and it stinks?
Speaker 2: Or even my favorite one, the literacy rate in Cuba
Speaker 2: is ninety nine percent, to which I have always responded,
Speaker 2: so what or they can read is Communist party propaganda.
Speaker 2: I rather be illiterate and free than literate and enslaved anyway.
Speaker 2: Liberty is a value people. You know what people rather
Speaker 2: have than liberty. They rather be taken care of. It's
Speaker 2: as old as the Book of Exodus. Take care of us.
Speaker 2: We don't want liberty. We want to be taken care of.
Speaker 2: That's the leftist atwork, and it's why it's dangerous. It
Speaker 2: doesn't have liberty. Liberty is not a left wing value.
Speaker 2: Left wing value is being taken care of and equality
Speaker 2: those are left wing values, but not but not liberty.
Speaker 2: The proof is freedom of speech, which is being suppressed
Speaker 2: in America for the first time in American history. What
Speaker 2: is happening on college campuses? Where the effort it takes.
Speaker 2: When Ben Shapiro went to Berkeley, they spent six hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars on security. I have a picture of me
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was it's Colorado State, I
Speaker 2: don't remember where it was. But very recently I have
Speaker 2: a picture of me with the armed guards who came
Speaker 2: to bring me in. It looked like I was being
Speaker 2: escorted in Afghanistan. It's a truly funny picture. These policemen
Speaker 2: were in basically war gear. And is there any left
Speaker 2: wing speaker who needs security? Well? None, and culture travels
Speaker 2: with a bodyguard. Does the left wing equivalent of Van
Speaker 2: Culter travel with a bodyguard? Of course not, because we
Speaker 2: don't threaten them. They threaten us just to be heard.
Speaker 2: Do you know that we have four hundred videos? Do
Speaker 2: you know that a hundred of our videos are YouTube
Speaker 2: is put on the restricted list, which means if your
Speaker 2: family has filters for pornography and violence, you can't see
Speaker 2: a priger you video. Yep, it's mind boggling. They talked
Speaker 2: about it in Congress. We have a lawsuit against Google,
Speaker 2: which owns YouTube. It's really frightening. This stuff is brand new,
Speaker 2: and you know what's up there. Victor Davis Hansen one
Speaker 2: of the gentlest human beings in the world. The professor
Speaker 2: of Classics at cal State University. He teaches a course
Speaker 2: on the history of the Korean War that's on the
Speaker 2: restricted list. Alan Dersher It's lifelong Democrat and liberal, gives
Speaker 2: a history of Israel's founding in five minutes. It's on
Speaker 2: the list. Anything that defends Israel or America is automatically
Speaker 2: lumped with panagraa on YouTube. Okay, just to give you
Speaker 2: an idea of what the left does when it has power.
Speaker 2: Liberty is not one of their values. They don't like liberty.
Speaker 2: America was founded on limited government. You can't have free
Speaker 2: people with big government. Or as my motto goes, we
Speaker 2: even have bumper stickers available with it. The bigger the government,
Speaker 2: the smaller the citizen. That's the way it works. We
Speaker 2: want big citizens, little government. They want big government, little citizens.
Speaker 2: That's how it works. You can't have both limited government.
Speaker 2: Is The only country in the history of the world
Speaker 2: to be founded with the ideal of limited government is
Speaker 2: the United States of America. The left, and the words
Speaker 2: of Barack Obama, wants to fundamentally transform the United States
Speaker 2: of America. Conservatives don't want to fundamentally transform this country.
Speaker 2: They want to improve it. Leftists want to fundamentally transform it.
Speaker 2: It's a very big difference, and you don't love what
Speaker 2: you want to fundamentally transform. If somebody said to you,
Speaker 2: I really love my wife, but i'd like I'd like
Speaker 2: to see her fundamentally transform it, Okay, that's why you
Speaker 2: should laugh the next time you hear a left to
Speaker 2: say I love America, you can't love them whatever you
Speaker 2: want fundamentally transformed. It is not possible. It is It
Speaker 2: is laughable. As you just saw number two, epluribus unem,
Speaker 2: which is the Latin for from many one this country.
Speaker 2: Everybody comes from different places and we're supposed to become one.
Speaker 2: It's this country is not founded on an ethnicity. If
Speaker 2: you wanted a picture of a Swede, you you have
Speaker 2: a white blonde picture. A picture of a German, a
Speaker 2: picture of a Japanese. You have a specific picture of
Speaker 2: a Korean. You have a specific picture. There's no specific
Speaker 2: picture of an American and it doesn't exist. There's every type.
Speaker 2: So if we divide America into races and ethnicities, we
Speaker 2: are undoing the American experiment. The whole point was to
Speaker 2: be unim was to be one, irrespective of where you
Speaker 2: came from. You want to honor your culture. I went
Speaker 2: to a Jewish school where I studied Hebrew half today
Speaker 2: I speak Hebrew like English because of that. But I'm American.
Speaker 2: I love America. I celebrate America. I have that in
Speaker 2: common with every other American. Whether you ever could read
Speaker 2: a Hebrew word or not, it's irrelevant. You want to
Speaker 2: know if your parents came from Korea, comes Ahmeda. I
Speaker 2: want you to. I want you to know Korean. That
Speaker 2: is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Nobody's ever asked people
Speaker 2: to stop studying their culture or their languge. But we
Speaker 2: all united as Americans, and race means nothing nothing. It
Speaker 2: only means something to the left, because every happy black
Speaker 2: is more likely to vote Republican, every happy woman is
Speaker 2: more likely to vote Republican. Telling people they have in
Speaker 2: bad keeps them voting Democrat. It's a disgusting little device,
Speaker 2: but it works. Oh women, Oh you're oppressed. If American
Speaker 2: women are oppressed, then the word oppressed has lost all meaning.
Speaker 2: It is an absurdity to walk around thinking you're oppressed,
Speaker 2: either as a black, or as a Hispanic, or as
Speaker 2: an Asian or as a woman. You are not, period
Speaker 2: and of issue, you are not. You're damn lucky to
Speaker 2: be American. And by the way, the amazing thing is
Speaker 2: everything I just said is called racist. The left calls
Speaker 2: all this racist. The university look at the look at
Speaker 2: it up, either with my name or on its own.
Speaker 2: University of California List of Microaggressions, the official list of
Speaker 2: things you can say that are racist. If you say,
Speaker 2: there's only one race, the human race, that is considered racist,
Speaker 2: according to the University of California, I don't what is it?
Speaker 2: I trow here's another one. I try to treat everyone
Speaker 2: the same. That is racist. You're supposed to treat blacks differently?
Speaker 2: Is that bizarre? Is that bizarre? Is that an insult?
Speaker 2: This is the battle that we're fighting, and I hope
Speaker 2: you'll fight it. And finally, in God we Trust. My
Speaker 2: final point, you, even if you're a conservative, you have
Speaker 2: undergone most likely a secular brainwash. It's just true. It's
Speaker 2: not an insult to you or even to those who
Speaker 2: taught you. It's just true. You don't realize why in
Speaker 2: God we trust is the American mono or an American mono.
Speaker 2: But it is because you can't have limited government without
Speaker 2: a big God. People have to feel accountable for their
Speaker 2: behavior to something higher and more powerful than themselves. If
Speaker 2: people are not basically good, they better damn well feel
Speaker 2: accountable for their behavior correct, or we're going to get
Speaker 2: a lot of bad behavior. So you have a choice
Speaker 2: the God of Judaism and Christianity or the God of
Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments, if you will, or big government. That's
Speaker 2: why secular Europe has bigger and bigger governments. The European
Speaker 2: Union has taken over for God. We will tell you
Speaker 2: what you can drive, when you can drive it, how
Speaker 2: long you can keep your store open, when you can
Speaker 2: keep it open. It's just endless. They become the moral authority.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I've said very often in the
Speaker 2: United States today there's far more fear of the left
Speaker 2: and fear of God. It's not even close. One hundred
Speaker 2: years ago there was a lot more fear of God.
Speaker 2: Does that mean everybody acted good? Of course not. Of
Speaker 2: course not. There's no such thing as everybody acting good.
Speaker 2: It doesn't, it doesn't doesn't happen. But people act better
Speaker 2: than other people in other places. And we've had that
Speaker 2: in the United States, and God we trust is central
Speaker 2: to the American experiment. Secular conservatives don't know this, and
Speaker 2: the left opposes it. That's why they hate Evangelical Christians
Speaker 2: because they are the largest single anti left body in
Speaker 2: the United States. So this Uh the uh, the mayor
Speaker 2: of South ben Indiana, who is the third most popular
Speaker 2: Democrat right now, buddhaj Edge Uh has said, Oh, what hypocrites,
Speaker 2: what phonies these evangelicals are for supporting the president who
Speaker 2: had an affair with an adult film actress and paid
Speaker 2: her to keep silent. I know, Evangelical Christians, real, real, well,
Speaker 2: why are they hypocrites for supporting the president because he
Speaker 2: did that? This is an amazing thing that this nonsense
Speaker 2: goes for intelligent talk. They didn't say he didn't sin.
Speaker 2: They said that there are more important things in choosing
Speaker 2: a president than whether the person sin. That's called wisdom.
Speaker 2: That's the way it works. Evangelical Christians think it's more
Speaker 2: important to protect the United States of America. They think
Speaker 2: it's more important, for example, to declare infanticide raw forget
Speaker 2: even abortion in fan deicide as Virginia just said it
Speaker 2: was okay. They think that's more important than whether the
Speaker 2: president happened to have slept with the poor an actress
Speaker 2: or not. And by the way, they have good biblical
Speaker 2: basi for that, God seems to have had a lob
Speaker 2: store for King David, who not only slept with a
Speaker 2: woman he wasn't married to while he was married. Excuse
Speaker 2: me that she was no while she was married, which
Speaker 2: is adultery, But had the husband killed? Other than that
Speaker 2: not so terrible, which, by the way, Trump never did,
Speaker 2: no contention that the guy had that the porn actress
Speaker 2: was married, and he had the husband killed. So how
Speaker 2: come God could could find King David? Who will be?
Speaker 2: Who's the ancestor of the Messiah for both Judaism and Christianity.
Speaker 2: How come God chose of all the people in Canaan
Speaker 2: to let the Israelites into the Promised Land. Guess who
Speaker 2: he chose? A prostitute. So I guess if God could
Speaker 2: work with sexual sinners, so could we. Son of my
Speaker 2: damn business? I said this with regard to Clinton. I
Speaker 2: didn't give a damn if he had consensual sex. It
Speaker 2: was none of my business. Listen, I grew up with
Speaker 2: John F. Kennedy. I was a little child. Guy hat
Speaker 2: Orgy's in the White House, and the left still thinks
Speaker 2: he's the greatest president, perhaps since since Lincoln, who, by
Speaker 2: the way was a Republican. Just throw that out for
Speaker 2: the ratification. But to Buddha Jedge and to Beato A'rouric
Speaker 2: and also all the others, Oh, evangelicals, a lot of hypocrites. No,
Speaker 2: they understand something. When you vote for president, you are
Speaker 2: not voting for pastor, rabbi or priest. You're voting for president.
Speaker 2: President of the United States. Affects all seven billion people
Speaker 2: on earth. Okay, so there are much more important issues
Speaker 2: than whether he has been sexually saintly or not. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's the end of the issue. This notion of well, well, kids,
Speaker 2: you know what kind of model is he for kids?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was a kid like you. You
Speaker 2: were a kid, okay't when I was a kid. I
Speaker 2: don't remember my father saying, Dennis, I want you to
Speaker 2: look at Lyndon Johnson. Yeah, if you just said to
Speaker 2: my father, doesn't doesn't Dennis take his moral cues from
Speaker 2: the president? My father was said, what are your mind
Speaker 2: if he doesn't take moral cues from his father and
Speaker 2: his uncles, and and and his older brother, and his
Speaker 2: rabbi and his teachers were in trouble. That's where you
Speaker 2: get moral cues from President. This is make This is
Speaker 2: a make believe world of the left. They loved Clinton.
Speaker 2: Did we take moral cues from Clinton? No? No, it's
Speaker 2: just an absurdity. It's just an absurdity. And and and
Speaker 2: and if you are faithful, does it make make you
Speaker 2: a great leader. I think Jimmy Carter was an awful president.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt he was faithful to his wife.
Speaker 2: So what that's called wisdom? And for that matter, honesty. Anyway,
Speaker 2: in God we trust, Yes. So that's that's the third
Speaker 2: part of our of the American Trinity. I have offered
Speaker 2: you five ideas of what is life shaping about Feelings
Speaker 2: less important than behavior about you have to battle yourself
Speaker 2: to have a good world. This is the stuff that matters.
Speaker 2: And I don't I don't see people getting They're not
Speaker 2: getting it your generation, my generation didn't get it either.
Speaker 2: I got it because I went to religious school all
Speaker 2: day long, nine to nine to one, religious subjects one
Speaker 2: to six, I mean nine to six. I went all day.
Speaker 2: But it was a great grounding. I understood what my
Speaker 2: teacher said. I'll leave you with one final great thing
Speaker 2: about about feelings. You know what I learned Feelings didn't matter.
Speaker 2: This is a very major thing. I remember literally one
Speaker 2: thing from fourth grade, but it changed my life. In
Speaker 2: fourth grade, so I studied in what many of you
Speaker 2: never heard of, a yeshiva. Yeshiva was an Orthodox Jewish school.
Speaker 2: As I said, Hebrew half today, English half today. So
Speaker 2: one day the rabbi says, okay, boys, it's time for
Speaker 2: the afternoon prayer. So I walked over to the rabbi
Speaker 2: because I always had klittzberg. I never was disrespectful, but
Speaker 2: I always had Klitzbergh. I walked over to the rabbi
Speaker 2: and I said, Rabbi fust Egg, I'm sorry, but I'm
Speaker 2: not in the mood for the afternoon prayers. Well, it
Speaker 2: was clear to me, even in fourth grade. The rabbi
Speaker 2: had never heard mood and prayer in the same sentence.
Speaker 2: So he had a beard. He stroked his beard, and
Speaker 2: he thought for a minute, and he goes Dennis, he
Speaker 2: is not in the mood to say the afternoon prayers.
Speaker 2: So what that man changed my life? So what who
Speaker 2: the hell cares about my mood? I have something I
Speaker 2: have to do. My mood is irrelevant. And that stayed
Speaker 2: with me the rest of my life. So what if
Speaker 2: you could say that it's the beginning of wisdom.
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