1 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:25,820 Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of 2 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:29,460 Speaker 1: hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs had 3 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:39,620 Speaker 1: to purchase Dennis Brager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennisprager dot com. 4 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:55,220 Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Brager. Thank you, wow, wow wow, 5 00:00:56,660 --> 00:01:00,780 Speaker 2: thank you, Thank you very much. Very intimidating. When you 6 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:05,380 Speaker 2: get the standing ovation before you speak, you're really better 7 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:11,420 Speaker 2: deliver well. I can actually spend it a good part 8 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,100 Speaker 2: of my time thanking everybody who has made as possible 9 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:16,300 Speaker 2: forgive me. By the way, I have a slightly hoarse voice, 10 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:17,500 Speaker 2: and I don't know why, but I do. 11 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:19,220 Speaker 1: This. 12 00:01:19,260 --> 00:01:21,820 Speaker 2: Isn't it annoying when you get anything in the summer. 13 00:01:22,580 --> 00:01:23,980 Speaker 2: You know, if you get in the middle of winter, 14 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:26,380 Speaker 2: it's totally but nobody should get a cold in the 15 00:01:26,540 --> 00:01:30,620 Speaker 2: in the summer. It's wrong. It's just morally wrong. Anyway, 16 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:33,140 Speaker 2: Be that as it may. The brain is functioning and 17 00:01:33,140 --> 00:01:37,740 Speaker 2: that's what matters. I just want to say that Senator's 18 00:01:37,860 --> 00:01:42,300 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Andrews, you have done something wonderful with this 19 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:46,900 Speaker 2: institute and with these weekends that you have created. I 20 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:49,300 Speaker 2: want to thank you and salute you. It's an honor 21 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:51,860 Speaker 2: to be part of this all Star cast. I often 22 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:54,860 Speaker 2: say on my radio show, and I make no judgment 23 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:59,340 Speaker 2: on this, but I'll be somewhat self revealing here. There 24 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:01,740 Speaker 2: are two types of people, you know there You always 25 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:04,540 Speaker 2: have that two types of people, right, here's a one. 26 00:02:04,580 --> 00:02:08,460 Speaker 2: Here's one of the two types distinctions. There are those 27 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,660 Speaker 2: who want to be a star, and there are those 28 00:02:11,660 --> 00:02:14,780 Speaker 2: who want to be on an All Star team, and 29 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:18,700 Speaker 2: you meet them both. I have no judgment here, but 30 00:02:18,820 --> 00:02:22,060 Speaker 2: I far prefer being part of an All Star team. 31 00:02:22,419 --> 00:02:25,100 Speaker 2: And that's what I am when I come here and 32 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:27,100 Speaker 2: thank you for having me and the rest of the 33 00:02:27,139 --> 00:02:29,660 Speaker 2: all stars that you bring. It is a very very 34 00:02:29,740 --> 00:02:43,740 Speaker 2: big deal. Let me tell you that the great battle 35 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:49,220 Speaker 2: is a moral ideas battle. The Congressman who said those 36 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:53,700 Speaker 2: very kind things about me, and of course Brian Taylor 37 00:02:53,740 --> 00:03:00,500 Speaker 2: of my beloved k in Us, they have spoken, and 38 00:03:00,620 --> 00:03:04,580 Speaker 2: you have heard about Ronald Reagan, and you heard the 39 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:10,820 Speaker 2: Congressman say that he needs someone to translate. Does prayer 40 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:16,500 Speaker 2: speak liberallys I do? That's the interesting suld I should 41 00:03:16,540 --> 00:03:19,940 Speaker 2: now say I speak five languages. It is a very 42 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:23,660 Speaker 2: good point. No, it's actually a very good point and 43 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:29,780 Speaker 2: a very important one. I was raised speaking liberally. I 44 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:36,660 Speaker 2: am classic. I am the stereotypical liberal Brooklyn, New York, 45 00:03:37,380 --> 00:03:45,100 Speaker 2: Columbia University Jewish. What else is there? I mean, it's 46 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:53,580 Speaker 2: like redundant, and I speak liberally fluently. That is why 47 00:03:54,980 --> 00:03:58,060 Speaker 2: it is one of the reasons, hopefully, if I am effective, 48 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,740 Speaker 2: it's because I know their language, and part of the 49 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:07,620 Speaker 2: language is to be liberal is to be kind. To 50 00:04:07,740 --> 00:04:12,220 Speaker 2: be conservative is to be stingy. To be liberal is 51 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:16,900 Speaker 2: to be compassionate. To be conservative is not to be compassionate. 52 00:04:17,539 --> 00:04:21,300 Speaker 2: And the list goes on the self. The theme of 53 00:04:21,339 --> 00:04:25,020 Speaker 2: the left is enormous. That's why they founded the self 54 00:04:25,099 --> 00:04:28,499 Speaker 2: esteem movement, one of the silliest movements they've ever founded. 55 00:04:28,539 --> 00:04:32,140 Speaker 2: And this competition for that title, you must understand silliest 56 00:04:32,219 --> 00:04:38,380 Speaker 2: liberal movement is a very large group of nominees, but 57 00:04:38,460 --> 00:04:41,180 Speaker 2: the self esteem movement and a lot of conservatives born. 58 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:43,460 Speaker 2: I got to raise kids with self esteem and so on. 59 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:46,860 Speaker 2: It's turned out The Atlantic Monthly, which is a liberal, 60 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:51,700 Speaker 2: thoughtful liberal magazine, had a very powerful article recently on 61 00:04:51,780 --> 00:04:55,339 Speaker 2: how devastating it has been to children to think highly 62 00:04:55,380 --> 00:04:59,060 Speaker 2: of themselves without doing anything to merit thinking highly of themselves. 63 00:05:00,580 --> 00:05:03,820 Speaker 2: I always tell the story about my older boy when 64 00:05:03,860 --> 00:05:08,380 Speaker 2: he was ten, he got a trophy for well, I 65 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:10,900 Speaker 2: won't say for Watten. That's the punchline. He got a 66 00:05:10,940 --> 00:05:14,700 Speaker 2: trophy at the last game of his baseball season. He 67 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:17,820 Speaker 2: came in last. His team came in last, which is 68 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:24,580 Speaker 2: good Prager sports tradition, and he came in last. So 69 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:27,660 Speaker 2: I said, David, what's the trophy for? And he thought, 70 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:31,180 Speaker 2: and he thought, he thought. He said for playing. He said, 71 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:34,300 Speaker 2: you got a trophy for playing? Does it say that 72 00:05:34,660 --> 00:05:40,140 Speaker 2: to David Praeger? For playing? They didn't win, By the way, 73 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:44,779 Speaker 2: even the kid who didn't play got a trophy. I 74 00:05:44,860 --> 00:05:48,779 Speaker 2: want to tell you I got no trophies as a kid. 75 00:05:49,140 --> 00:05:52,500 Speaker 2: My older brother did because he was good. He was 76 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:58,219 Speaker 2: a real athlete. This is part of the idea of 77 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:03,060 Speaker 2: the left. They have very high self esteem. Our task 78 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:09,540 Speaker 2: is to win the moral rhetorical battle to show that 79 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:14,740 Speaker 2: this the nanny state, the welfare state, is not a 80 00:06:14,860 --> 00:06:21,380 Speaker 2: compassionate and good thing. It is heartless. Government allultimately is 81 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:25,700 Speaker 2: heartless because nobody is there. You knock on the door 82 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:30,140 Speaker 2: and a bureaucrat answers if you get any answer. There 83 00:06:30,260 --> 00:06:33,020 Speaker 2: was a time in America when you knocked on the door, 84 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:38,340 Speaker 2: and the church down the street answered. The Rotary Club answered, 85 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:44,580 Speaker 2: the Kiwanis Club answered. There were more associations in America 86 00:06:44,660 --> 00:06:48,140 Speaker 2: than in any other country or all other countries combined. 87 00:06:49,180 --> 00:06:56,740 Speaker 2: The state has obliterated them. Catholic Charities does not any 88 00:06:56,940 --> 00:07:03,099 Speaker 2: longer function in Massachusetts and in Illinois in the area 89 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:08,020 Speaker 2: that they had been the greatest activists in, and that 90 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:12,940 Speaker 2: is adoption, because they had this odd belief that you 91 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:18,620 Speaker 2: give a child for adoption first to a healthy married 92 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:23,500 Speaker 2: man and woman. If they're not married, they didn't qualify 93 00:07:23,620 --> 00:07:26,220 Speaker 2: for first choice. If it was two men, they didn't 94 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:30,020 Speaker 2: qualify for first choice. It's not anti gay anymore than 95 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:34,060 Speaker 2: if you're not married as anti heterosexual, or if you're single, 96 00:07:34,260 --> 00:07:38,740 Speaker 2: it's not anti heterosexual. It's not anti anybody. It's the 97 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:43,500 Speaker 2: odd belief that Catholic Charities had that if you have 98 00:07:43,620 --> 00:07:46,940 Speaker 2: a child who needs a home, your best chance no 99 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,460 Speaker 2: guarantees in life, but your best chance is with a 100 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:54,060 Speaker 2: married man and women. But that is bigotry. Now that 101 00:07:54,220 --> 00:07:59,020 Speaker 2: is considered bigotry in Illinois by state law. It is bigotry, 102 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:03,900 Speaker 2: and in Massachusetts, so they're no longer in the business 103 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:09,180 Speaker 2: of adoption. That's what the state does. The larger the state. 104 00:08:10,420 --> 00:08:14,860 Speaker 2: We're here honoring Ronald Reagan. He changed my life. I'll 105 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,020 Speaker 2: never forget his inaugural address, and he said, in this 106 00:08:18,180 --> 00:08:22,700 Speaker 2: present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. 107 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:26,460 Speaker 2: Government is the problem. I did not know that. I 108 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:30,300 Speaker 2: feel silly. I do I feel silly. I wasn't a liberal, 109 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:33,699 Speaker 2: but I didn't know that by the way, which therefore 110 00:08:33,740 --> 00:08:37,660 Speaker 2: made me a liberal. The issue is the size of 111 00:08:37,699 --> 00:08:42,739 Speaker 2: the state. The great moral dividing line is about the 112 00:08:42,780 --> 00:08:46,020 Speaker 2: size of the state. And I am here to make 113 00:08:46,059 --> 00:08:50,140 Speaker 2: the case with ten arguments that the bigger the state, 114 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:53,780 Speaker 2: the smaller the citizen. It is a phrase that I 115 00:08:53,820 --> 00:08:58,740 Speaker 2: came up with, and we have bumper stickers with that phrase. 116 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:03,660 Speaker 2: It summarizes the conservative position, which is the American position. 117 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:06,380 Speaker 2: That doesn't mean we love America. They don't love America. 118 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:08,580 Speaker 2: None of that nonsense has nothing to do with love. 119 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:12,820 Speaker 2: There is such a thing as normative American values. A 120 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,980 Speaker 2: big state is not a normative American value. It is 121 00:09:18,020 --> 00:09:23,420 Speaker 2: a European value. The left in this country wishes to 122 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:28,460 Speaker 2: be Sweden. The right in this country's country does not 123 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:32,340 Speaker 2: wish to be sweetened that's it. That's it in a nutshell, 124 00:09:32,420 --> 00:09:36,460 Speaker 2: that is the difference. We do not look to Western 125 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:41,500 Speaker 2: Europe as a model. By the way, just a little 126 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:46,700 Speaker 2: tiny example of the enormous moral battles that go on here. 127 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,700 Speaker 2: That you know, those of you who hear my show 128 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:52,979 Speaker 2: know a model of my show is I prefer clarity 129 00:09:53,020 --> 00:09:57,980 Speaker 2: to agreement. Here is a clarifying difference between Western Europe 130 00:09:58,220 --> 00:10:00,940 Speaker 2: and the United States, or at least Western Europe and 131 00:10:01,140 --> 00:10:09,179 Speaker 2: American values. This evil monster, Brevec who murdered now seventy 132 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:14,780 Speaker 2: seven people, most of them kids. Do you know what 133 00:10:15,020 --> 00:10:20,380 Speaker 2: his maximum sentence will be? Twenty one years in prison. 134 00:10:21,940 --> 00:10:28,460 Speaker 2: That averages out to about two months per murder. That 135 00:10:28,820 --> 00:10:32,140 Speaker 2: is a statement of how they look at murder in 136 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:36,100 Speaker 2: Western Europe. That is a statement of the content they have, 137 00:10:36,460 --> 00:10:40,060 Speaker 2: in my opinion, for human life. Your death is worth 138 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:46,180 Speaker 2: two months in prison. It's vile we who believe if 139 00:10:46,260 --> 00:10:49,900 Speaker 2: you commit premeditated murder you do not deserve to live 140 00:10:50,340 --> 00:11:03,180 Speaker 2: value life more than they do. In the United States. 141 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:07,500 Speaker 2: You can get more time in prison for tax fraud 142 00:11:07,740 --> 00:11:12,220 Speaker 2: than for murdering seventy seven people in Norway. What does 143 00:11:12,260 --> 00:11:19,820 Speaker 2: that say? Very important little distinction. It is not more 144 00:11:19,940 --> 00:11:24,620 Speaker 2: moral to have such a nothing punishment. The man, the 145 00:11:24,740 --> 00:11:28,740 Speaker 2: German fan, remember that, who stabbed Monica sell Us, the 146 00:11:28,740 --> 00:11:33,260 Speaker 2: tennis star, in the back, ruining her career, just came 147 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:36,579 Speaker 2: over and put a giant kitchen butcher's knife in her back. 148 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:39,620 Speaker 2: Never served a day in his life in prison, in 149 00:11:39,660 --> 00:11:47,940 Speaker 2: a German prison. They understood his issues. That's the liberal mind. 150 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:52,660 Speaker 2: I could and if I had the time, well, actually 151 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:54,860 Speaker 2: I do have the time. It's called my radio show. 152 00:11:56,380 --> 00:11:59,180 Speaker 2: I have three hours a day. And sometimes it's not 153 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:04,460 Speaker 2: enough to speak about the moral defects of liberal position. 154 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:08,500 Speaker 2: But what must be understood is most of the time, 155 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:10,939 Speaker 2: not all the time, by any means. And the further 156 00:12:11,020 --> 00:12:15,699 Speaker 2: left you go, the mean the spirit. But many liberal 157 00:12:15,740 --> 00:12:19,459 Speaker 2: people are utterly decent people. By the way, They can't 158 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:24,020 Speaker 2: say that about us. They can't the moment liberals acknowledge 159 00:12:24,060 --> 00:12:27,059 Speaker 2: that a conservative can be as kind and well intentioned 160 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:31,460 Speaker 2: as they take. They have cut the rug from under net, 161 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,460 Speaker 2: they have removed it from under them. They must believe 162 00:12:34,580 --> 00:12:37,980 Speaker 2: we mean poorly. I'll never forget. We play on my 163 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:42,179 Speaker 2: show clip after clip of liberals saying, just matter of factly, 164 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:46,380 Speaker 2: how bad conservatives are. The Howard Dean the former head 165 00:12:46,380 --> 00:12:52,540 Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party, said, for example, unlike unlike conservatives were, 166 00:12:52,620 --> 00:12:56,700 Speaker 2: Liberals don't go to bed at night. We go to 167 00:12:56,740 --> 00:13:00,700 Speaker 2: bed at night worried about kids who can't who don't 168 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:03,860 Speaker 2: have enough food. We don't care about kids who don't 169 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:08,340 Speaker 2: have enough food. That's how we believe. I'm paraphrasing a 170 00:13:08,740 --> 00:13:11,100 Speaker 2: Larry King questioned where he just said, what is it 171 00:13:11,140 --> 00:13:15,420 Speaker 2: about conservatives that they have such a problem with kindness? 172 00:13:16,660 --> 00:13:18,700 Speaker 2: And I like Larry I was on Larry King a 173 00:13:18,740 --> 00:13:22,500 Speaker 2: dozen times. You know he means well, that is, if 174 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:25,980 Speaker 2: they didn't believe we were mean spirited, they couldn't stay liberal. 175 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:29,220 Speaker 2: They have to believe they mean better than we. But 176 00:13:29,260 --> 00:13:31,380 Speaker 2: we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. 177 00:13:32,020 --> 00:13:34,140 Speaker 2: We have to believe that we do better than them. 178 00:13:35,179 --> 00:13:40,260 Speaker 2: We measure morality by what happens, not what is intended, 179 00:13:43,660 --> 00:13:46,380 Speaker 2: very very big distinction between us. 180 00:13:46,540 --> 00:13:49,900 Speaker 1: This episode of timeless wisdom will continue right after this. 181 00:13:55,380 --> 00:13:59,140 Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom. 182 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:02,100 Speaker 2: So let me give you these ten and I could 183 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:07,780 Speaker 2: give you twenty ten failings of the of progressive policies 184 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:11,540 Speaker 2: on the character of a society. Number one, the bigger 185 00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:15,780 Speaker 2: the government. The less citizens do for one another makes 186 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:22,420 Speaker 2: perfect sense. Americans knew you help your neighbor, you help 187 00:14:22,460 --> 00:14:25,100 Speaker 2: your parents, you help your children. We just knew that, 188 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:29,260 Speaker 2: and we always did so. The question is who does it? 189 00:14:30,780 --> 00:14:33,380 Speaker 2: If the state won't do it, the church will, the 190 00:14:33,420 --> 00:14:39,380 Speaker 2: synagogue will, the volunteer club will, the free loan Society will. 191 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:43,820 Speaker 2: I mean it's endless, it is endless. The glee club will, 192 00:14:44,220 --> 00:14:48,620 Speaker 2: the bowling club will, the sisterhood will, the brotherhood will. 193 00:14:50,420 --> 00:14:57,540 Speaker 2: They're all dying because the state destroys the alternatives. There 194 00:14:57,580 --> 00:15:01,540 Speaker 2: are no such alternatives in Western Europe. If you want 195 00:15:01,580 --> 00:15:06,540 Speaker 2: to help your parents, you go to the state. Not 196 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:08,740 Speaker 2: to mention that we have this notion. Now we take 197 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:12,980 Speaker 2: for granted that the state educates our children. Why is 198 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:18,820 Speaker 2: that superior? That was not the original American ideal the state. 199 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:23,220 Speaker 2: If so, the bigger the state, the less we do 200 00:15:23,420 --> 00:15:26,940 Speaker 2: for one another. That is why Americans, with the same 201 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:32,500 Speaker 2: exact socioeconomic status as Western Europeans give far more charity 202 00:15:33,380 --> 00:15:39,140 Speaker 2: and volunteer far more time, because the European has been 203 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:46,260 Speaker 2: taught the state will take care of everybody. Number two, 204 00:15:48,020 --> 00:15:53,020 Speaker 2: the welfare state may well be well intended, but it 205 00:15:53,060 --> 00:15:58,260 Speaker 2: is a Ponzi scheme. Lawrence Kudlow made this point. I 206 00:15:58,260 --> 00:16:01,460 Speaker 2: have made it before him, but I'm happy an economist 207 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:06,380 Speaker 2: made the point. I'm not an economist. It's a Ponzi scheme. 208 00:16:07,940 --> 00:16:12,740 Speaker 2: People are paying in to support the people who previously 209 00:16:12,820 --> 00:16:16,740 Speaker 2: paid in, but there isn't enough coming in, so it 210 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:22,020 Speaker 2: will collapse, like every Ponzi scheme does. It's not meant 211 00:16:22,060 --> 00:16:23,780 Speaker 2: to be a Ponzi scheme. By the way, I had 212 00:16:23,820 --> 00:16:26,500 Speaker 2: the author of a biography of Ponzi on my show. 213 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:30,420 Speaker 2: Ponzi was a good guy. He he got messed up, 214 00:16:30,860 --> 00:16:32,900 Speaker 2: and so we had to keep collecting money to pay 215 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:35,900 Speaker 2: the other people who paid in earlier. He didn't mean bad. 216 00:16:36,180 --> 00:16:38,300 Speaker 2: Ponzi turns out to have been somewhat of a saint. 217 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,580 Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. He heard of a 218 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:45,900 Speaker 2: girl who was in a fire, and he gave his 219 00:16:46,020 --> 00:16:53,300 Speaker 2: own skin for her skin grafts. A total stranger. Ponsi 220 00:16:53,460 --> 00:16:58,900 Speaker 2: is the quintessential liberal means well and creates something destructive. 221 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:07,860 Speaker 2: That is what liberalism is. Means well and destroys. Doesn't 222 00:17:07,899 --> 00:17:11,860 Speaker 2: mean to destroy. But remember one of my mottos, being 223 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:20,780 Speaker 2: left means never having to say you're sorry. Number three. 224 00:17:21,940 --> 00:17:23,859 Speaker 2: Let me just say one more word about number two. 225 00:17:23,899 --> 00:17:27,820 Speaker 2: I live in California. California is broke. It's not only broke, 226 00:17:27,859 --> 00:17:34,499 Speaker 2: it's broken Liberals broken. Nobody can argue, no one, no 227 00:17:34,580 --> 00:17:37,780 Speaker 2: one with a shred of commitment to honesty can argue 228 00:17:37,939 --> 00:17:43,780 Speaker 2: Conservatives broke California. Liberal policies in a state where they 229 00:17:43,780 --> 00:17:49,739 Speaker 2: can do whatever they want, have broken the Golden State, 230 00:17:49,979 --> 00:17:53,419 Speaker 2: the state people went to to get rich. You now 231 00:17:53,459 --> 00:17:57,219 Speaker 2: go there to get core, you leave to get rich. 232 00:17:58,179 --> 00:18:02,180 Speaker 2: It's very sad. It's a beautiful state. It's very sad. 233 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:10,859 Speaker 2: Number three. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. 234 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:14,419 Speaker 2: You know what the big worry of the Western European 235 00:18:14,540 --> 00:18:20,540 Speaker 2: is It certainly isn't how do I protect countries like America? 236 00:18:20,699 --> 00:18:26,139 Speaker 2: Worries about protecting countries? Right? Thirty seven thousand Americans died 237 00:18:26,580 --> 00:18:31,179 Speaker 2: saving South Korea from becoming like North Korea. How many 238 00:18:31,219 --> 00:18:36,940 Speaker 2: Germans died saving South Korea? How many French? How many Italians? 239 00:18:37,419 --> 00:18:42,859 Speaker 2: How many Spaniards? We die for others? You know what 240 00:18:42,899 --> 00:18:49,540 Speaker 2: the big concern of Western Europeans, All Western Europeans vacation time. 241 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:56,379 Speaker 2: They riot over vacation time, they riot over what age 242 00:18:56,659 --> 00:19:00,859 Speaker 2: is the retirement age? Riots take place over these issues. 243 00:19:01,300 --> 00:19:09,020 Speaker 2: This is narcissism. It doesn't matter what is happening in Cambodia. 244 00:19:09,260 --> 00:19:12,939 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what is happening in Syria. I want 245 00:19:12,939 --> 00:19:18,899 Speaker 2: my vacation time. That's it. That's the big concern. I 246 00:19:18,939 --> 00:19:22,179 Speaker 2: want a four day work week. I want it all 247 00:19:22,219 --> 00:19:25,980 Speaker 2: paid for. The European Union has now added under its 248 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:28,579 Speaker 2: list of human rights. Are you ready? I couldn't make 249 00:19:28,619 --> 00:19:34,179 Speaker 2: this up. The right to travel on a vacation to 250 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:40,139 Speaker 2: a foreign country is now in the list of human rights. 251 00:19:40,699 --> 00:19:46,580 Speaker 2: It's not a privilege, it's a human right. Number four. 252 00:19:46,699 --> 00:19:52,340 Speaker 2: The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work. They look 253 00:19:52,379 --> 00:19:57,340 Speaker 2: at US Americans as much too hard working. I know 254 00:19:57,820 --> 00:20:02,499 Speaker 2: a dear young woman about thirty. How old is Annetta thirty? 255 00:20:03,139 --> 00:20:07,580 Speaker 2: Who's married a good American friend of ours and has 256 00:20:07,659 --> 00:20:12,419 Speaker 2: fallen in love with the United States. And she told 257 00:20:12,419 --> 00:20:15,619 Speaker 2: me that in Germany there's a simple law. If you 258 00:20:15,739 --> 00:20:20,020 Speaker 2: own a store in Berlin and Dusseldorff, it doesn't anywhere 259 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:24,859 Speaker 2: and you want to keep it open an hour longer 260 00:20:25,139 --> 00:20:29,379 Speaker 2: to make more money, you cannot. It's not fair to 261 00:20:29,459 --> 00:20:33,300 Speaker 2: the guy who's closing at five so you can't stay 262 00:20:33,340 --> 00:20:39,019 Speaker 2: open till six The idea that people should work hard, 263 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,419 Speaker 2: and of course what has happened as a result is 264 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:45,779 Speaker 2: no hard work is really venerated, not the hard work 265 00:20:45,979 --> 00:20:51,780 Speaker 2: of producing children. Western Europe isn't replicating itself the more 266 00:20:51,859 --> 00:20:55,340 Speaker 2: liberal you get. It's not a matter of wealth. That's 267 00:20:55,419 --> 00:20:58,219 Speaker 2: only part of the story about why people have fewer children. 268 00:20:58,859 --> 00:21:02,299 Speaker 2: Religious people have more children than secular people. Why is 269 00:21:02,340 --> 00:21:04,699 Speaker 2: that you see a big family in the United States, 270 00:21:04,699 --> 00:21:09,859 Speaker 2: you assume one of the following they're Mormon, Catholic, Evangelical, 271 00:21:10,260 --> 00:21:14,220 Speaker 2: or Orthodox Jewish? Correct. Do you ever see a family 272 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:23,820 Speaker 2: of nine kids and the parents are Democratic activists? I 273 00:21:23,899 --> 00:21:28,019 Speaker 2: really wonder if there's one in the United States of America. 274 00:21:29,419 --> 00:21:34,580 Speaker 2: Any hard work is disdained by the left, only the 275 00:21:34,659 --> 00:21:38,500 Speaker 2: hard work of having the government expand. Then they're prepared 276 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:42,979 Speaker 2: to work very hard. They'll knock on your door. Number five. 277 00:21:44,179 --> 00:21:50,580 Speaker 2: Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something 278 00:21:50,859 --> 00:21:57,499 Speaker 2: for nothing, to be used to getting something that you 279 00:21:57,619 --> 00:22:03,139 Speaker 2: didn't pay into. Michelle Bachman was entirely right in saying 280 00:22:03,179 --> 00:22:07,219 Speaker 2: every American must pay even a dollar in federal income tax. 281 00:22:07,820 --> 00:22:14,899 Speaker 2: It is corrosive and is corrosive to a human character 282 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:20,340 Speaker 2: to pay nothing. Forty seven percent of Americans do not 283 00:22:20,379 --> 00:22:25,339 Speaker 2: pay a penny in federal income tax. I have the 284 00:22:25,379 --> 00:22:28,419 Speaker 2: bizarre notion that there is more wisdom in the Bible 285 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:30,619 Speaker 2: than in the New York Times. It is a very 286 00:22:30,739 --> 00:22:36,780 Speaker 2: big dividing line between me and others. The biblical notion 287 00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:41,379 Speaker 2: is every Israelite gave half a shekel everyone. If they 288 00:22:41,379 --> 00:22:45,819 Speaker 2: were too poor, they'll borrow it. There's no dignity in 289 00:22:45,939 --> 00:22:50,060 Speaker 2: not paying in That's what the liberal doesn't understand because 290 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:52,899 Speaker 2: human dignity is not a big deal on the left. 291 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:57,619 Speaker 2: Equality is big, but not dignity. There is no dignity 292 00:22:57,659 --> 00:23:04,820 Speaker 2: in having others pay for you. It is humiliating. In 293 00:23:04,979 --> 00:23:07,659 Speaker 2: Jewish life, it is one of the ironies of life 294 00:23:07,659 --> 00:23:09,460 Speaker 2: that Jews are liberals. This is one of the great 295 00:23:09,540 --> 00:23:12,539 Speaker 2: battles of my life. Is someone deeply involved in Jewish life? 296 00:23:12,739 --> 00:23:15,659 Speaker 2: Did you know what I tell Jewish liberals? Why don't 297 00:23:15,699 --> 00:23:25,580 Speaker 2: you preach what you practice? Jewish liberals live utterly conservative lives, 298 00:23:26,179 --> 00:23:31,299 Speaker 2: utterly emphasis on education, emphasis on marriage. Jews is so 299 00:23:31,379 --> 00:23:33,219 Speaker 2: big on marriage. You know that as soon as a 300 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:36,419 Speaker 2: Jews he's a single human being. They oh, you know 301 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:38,580 Speaker 2: I think I know somebody for it. I think I 302 00:23:38,619 --> 00:23:42,300 Speaker 2: know somebody I'll never forget. I give you my word 303 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:46,100 Speaker 2: of honor. I took two young, handsome Catholic priests to 304 00:23:46,139 --> 00:23:49,979 Speaker 2: a passover sator of mine many years ago. Every woman 305 00:23:49,979 --> 00:23:52,820 Speaker 2: at the table was thinking, you know, I know a Betsy. 306 00:23:52,979 --> 00:23:55,820 Speaker 2: Betsy would be great. And I kept kicking them up. 307 00:23:55,939 --> 00:24:06,219 Speaker 3: So they didn't care single single and I'm going celibate, celibate. 308 00:24:09,179 --> 00:24:12,539 Speaker 2: No, it's a real irony. Jews live, they work hard, 309 00:24:12,619 --> 00:24:17,979 Speaker 2: they defer pleasure, they emphasize education, everything, and then when 310 00:24:18,020 --> 00:24:22,500 Speaker 2: it comes to policy, they adopt the opposite view. That's 311 00:24:22,540 --> 00:24:24,780 Speaker 2: why I say to my fellow Jews who are liberal, 312 00:24:25,419 --> 00:24:29,419 Speaker 2: preach what you practice, and a lot of liberals would 313 00:24:29,459 --> 00:24:34,219 Speaker 2: be like that. It is very bad to get something 314 00:24:34,260 --> 00:24:37,659 Speaker 2: for nothing. It is very bad. Forty seven percent of 315 00:24:37,699 --> 00:24:41,419 Speaker 2: our society determines what the other fifty three percent will pay. 316 00:24:41,699 --> 00:24:44,060 Speaker 2: Can you imagine a bowling club that ran that way? 317 00:24:45,939 --> 00:24:48,539 Speaker 2: Not everybody. Everybody's a member of the bowling club, and 318 00:24:48,580 --> 00:24:50,820 Speaker 2: those of you who don't pay a nickel towards dues, 319 00:24:50,979 --> 00:24:53,580 Speaker 2: you decide how much the others who do pay will 320 00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:56,979 Speaker 2: pay in dues. Can you imagine that it's inconceivable that 321 00:24:57,020 --> 00:24:59,619 Speaker 2: a bowling club would run that way. We run the 322 00:24:59,739 --> 00:25:04,739 Speaker 2: United States of America that way. Plus the issue of 323 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:09,060 Speaker 2: the dignity getting something for nothing is a very very 324 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:14,020 Speaker 2: bad thing. Number six. The bigger the government, the more 325 00:25:14,020 --> 00:25:20,500 Speaker 2: of the corruption. This is. Perhaps it's almost never mentioned, 326 00:25:20,619 --> 00:25:22,780 Speaker 2: and it might be the biggest of the ten principles 327 00:25:22,820 --> 00:25:28,060 Speaker 2: I'm speaking of. The bigger anything is the bigger a business. 328 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,419 Speaker 2: The bigger anything is the more likelihood, the greater the 329 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:35,219 Speaker 2: likelihood of corruption. Let me tell you one very major 330 00:25:35,260 --> 00:25:38,299 Speaker 2: thing that no one likes to talk about. Do you 331 00:25:38,340 --> 00:25:42,419 Speaker 2: know who has committed the greatest evils of history? Big governments, 332 00:25:43,619 --> 00:25:56,060 Speaker 2: big secular governments, Hitler, maw Stalin, Paul Putt, all big states. 333 00:25:57,219 --> 00:26:02,060 Speaker 2: Why would anybody trust the big state? It's amazing how 334 00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:06,419 Speaker 2: many callers have imbibed the college message. Oh, more people 335 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,580 Speaker 2: have been killed by religion than anything else in history, 336 00:26:09,060 --> 00:26:11,780 Speaker 2: or really no, more people have been killed by governments 337 00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:14,219 Speaker 2: than by anything else in history, and just in the 338 00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:18,019 Speaker 2: twentieth century alone, and none of them were religious. You 339 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,979 Speaker 2: don't learn that in college. Comes as a sh shock 340 00:26:21,139 --> 00:26:26,179 Speaker 2: to my listener. Yeah, Je never thought of that. 341 00:26:26,899 --> 00:26:30,219 Speaker 1: This episode of timeless wisdom will continue right after this. 342 00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:40,419 Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Gregor's timeless wisdom. 343 00:26:40,739 --> 00:26:43,340 Speaker 2: Why is big government? Why doesn't big government have a 344 00:26:43,379 --> 00:26:50,259 Speaker 2: bad reputation? Why not only that all they say, well, 345 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:54,500 Speaker 2: big big corporations are corruptive. Fine, I never argued, we're 346 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:58,299 Speaker 2: not big corporation fans. We're freedom we're economic freedom fans. 347 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,379 Speaker 2: But we're not big corporation fans. But big corporations are 348 00:27:01,379 --> 00:27:07,419 Speaker 2: not conservative. GE is not conservative. Let her just know 349 00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:11,060 Speaker 2: that the head of GE is a big time pro 350 00:27:11,179 --> 00:27:15,939 Speaker 2: Democrat liberal. This notion they have invented, this notion that 351 00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:18,819 Speaker 2: big business is conservative. It never was. They did so 352 00:27:18,899 --> 00:27:22,139 Speaker 2: much business with the Lenin that there was a statement 353 00:27:22,179 --> 00:27:26,500 Speaker 2: that Lenin and his Bolsheviks had Western companies will vie 354 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,619 Speaker 2: with one another to sell us the rope by which 355 00:27:28,619 --> 00:27:32,259 Speaker 2: we will hang them. It's a very famous phrase of Lenin. 356 00:27:34,139 --> 00:27:38,619 Speaker 2: But when all is said and done, no big company 357 00:27:38,899 --> 00:27:45,740 Speaker 2: has a police force. The government does. No one's been 358 00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:51,179 Speaker 2: arrested by Coca Cola. You can be arrested by the 359 00:27:51,219 --> 00:27:55,340 Speaker 2: big state, which I will talk about as an example later. 360 00:27:55,780 --> 00:28:01,899 Speaker 2: Number seven. The welfare state corrupts family life. That's the 361 00:28:01,899 --> 00:28:05,340 Speaker 2: biggest single part of the problem in the inner city 362 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:09,179 Speaker 2: where women began to look to the state for a 363 00:28:09,260 --> 00:28:13,020 Speaker 2: husband instead of to a man for a husband. It's 364 00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:17,900 Speaker 2: the big state has a terrible impact. Instead of bonding 365 00:28:17,939 --> 00:28:20,219 Speaker 2: as two people to support a family, I don't have 366 00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:22,779 Speaker 2: to bomb with anybody. I just go to the state 367 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:25,259 Speaker 2: and it will support my children. And not only that, 368 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:27,939 Speaker 2: the more children I have out of wedlock, the more 369 00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:32,499 Speaker 2: the state will pay. Has a very corrupting impact on 370 00:28:32,899 --> 00:28:38,979 Speaker 2: family life. Number eight, The welfare state inhibits the maturation 371 00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:44,860 Speaker 2: of its young citizens into responsible adults. When I was 372 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:48,660 Speaker 2: a young man, when I was a boy, I knew. 373 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:53,299 Speaker 2: I didn't meditate on it. I knew it. My task 374 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:57,819 Speaker 2: is to marry, support a wife, and support a family. 375 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,979 Speaker 2: There was it no longer. No longer. Boys do not 376 00:29:03,219 --> 00:29:09,620 Speaker 2: have that dream. Ask women dating, they'll tell you boys 377 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:14,459 Speaker 2: don't have that dream, including boys affording known as the 378 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:20,499 Speaker 2: man boy. The man boy was produced by something in society, 379 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:25,019 Speaker 2: come out of nowhere. But the idea of a boy 380 00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:30,140 Speaker 2: dreaming of supporting a family. That's macho. That's John waynish. 381 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:34,339 Speaker 2: We don't want that. Well, you got your wish. You 382 00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:42,819 Speaker 2: don't have that. That's exactly what you don't have I 383 00:29:42,979 --> 00:29:47,579 Speaker 2: play on my show the longest loudest sustained applause I 384 00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:50,900 Speaker 2: have ever heard. You know where. It's from a college 385 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:55,860 Speaker 2: in the Washington area where President Obama spoke and announced 386 00:29:56,660 --> 00:30:01,499 Speaker 2: and now you can stay on your parents' health insurance 387 00:30:01,580 --> 00:30:06,259 Speaker 2: policy until the age of twenty six. Had he announced 388 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:09,300 Speaker 2: the cure for cancer, I don't believe the applause would 389 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:14,979 Speaker 2: have been as great. It was hysterical applause, and I 390 00:30:15,260 --> 00:30:19,300 Speaker 2: just thought about myself. This is not bragging. Believe me, 391 00:30:20,739 --> 00:30:24,380 Speaker 2: not have applauded. If I were in college I wanted 392 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:28,700 Speaker 2: to be independent at twenty one, I wouldn't have applauded 393 00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:32,740 Speaker 2: that I can now be dependent until twenty six. By 394 00:30:32,780 --> 00:30:36,180 Speaker 2: the way, I bet if he announced till thirty six, 395 00:30:36,580 --> 00:30:41,940 Speaker 2: they would have screamed in applause. The notion of being 396 00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:51,420 Speaker 2: dependent is not a negative, It is a positive. So 397 00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:55,100 Speaker 2: the next time your daughter asks where are all the men, 398 00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:58,940 Speaker 2: tell them the Democratic Party and its policies got rid 399 00:30:58,979 --> 00:31:10,700 Speaker 2: of them. And that's the truth. Ruth number nine. As 400 00:31:10,739 --> 00:31:15,100 Speaker 2: a result of the left's sympathetic views of pacifism, and 401 00:31:15,180 --> 00:31:20,820 Speaker 2: because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, 402 00:31:20,820 --> 00:31:24,660 Speaker 2: countries rely on America to fight the world's evil and 403 00:31:24,739 --> 00:31:29,500 Speaker 2: even to defend them. They have no budget for defense. 404 00:31:30,020 --> 00:31:34,100 Speaker 2: It's all spent on making sure people can have fewer 405 00:31:34,140 --> 00:31:36,660 Speaker 2: hours of work and have more vacation time, and have 406 00:31:36,739 --> 00:31:40,380 Speaker 2: more benefits and more benefits and more benefits. And who 407 00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:45,660 Speaker 2: will fight evil America? Anyway? They deny there's evil, There 408 00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:48,339 Speaker 2: really isn't evil. Evil is an American term. You have 409 00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:52,500 Speaker 2: no idea how many French and German experts and scholars 410 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,140 Speaker 2: I've had on my radio show who just say, you 411 00:31:55,180 --> 00:32:00,059 Speaker 2: know you, especially when President Bush was president, they would say, 412 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,420 Speaker 2: you know you, Americans like to talk about good and evil. 413 00:32:02,459 --> 00:32:07,020 Speaker 2: We Europeans, we don't talk about good and evil. That's 414 00:32:07,140 --> 00:32:10,540 Speaker 2: very American. And they're right, it is very American. That's 415 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,180 Speaker 2: entirely right. We do talk about good and evil. That's 416 00:32:13,219 --> 00:32:19,780 Speaker 2: why we alone have tended to fight evil, not the Europeans. 417 00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:23,860 Speaker 2: A very big deal. That's another and that's a phenomenon 418 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:30,140 Speaker 2: of the left. You don't fight evil, you fight carbon emissions. 419 00:32:33,420 --> 00:32:39,580 Speaker 2: It's very important, you know that. I always say my grandson, 420 00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:42,860 Speaker 2: I finally have a grandson. When my grandson and hopefully 421 00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:45,620 Speaker 2: other grandchildren will grow up and they'll say what did 422 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:49,940 Speaker 2: puppy What did puppy Dennis fight? Because in his time 423 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:52,580 Speaker 2: there was a I read there was a great division. 424 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:58,140 Speaker 2: He thought they should fight Islamist terror and communist evil, 425 00:32:58,780 --> 00:33:02,540 Speaker 2: and others thought that they should fight global warming. Which 426 00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:06,700 Speaker 2: did Grandpa fight? I hope that my grandchildren know which 427 00:33:06,739 --> 00:33:11,420 Speaker 2: one I thought. But this is this is clarifying. The 428 00:33:11,459 --> 00:33:13,140 Speaker 2: difference is I don't know how a person of the 429 00:33:13,219 --> 00:33:16,940 Speaker 2: left could differ with what I just said. That and 430 00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:19,940 Speaker 2: they and they'll, they'll add, well, that's because we consider 431 00:33:20,020 --> 00:33:23,660 Speaker 2: global warm the great evil. There's always a new great 432 00:33:23,739 --> 00:33:26,780 Speaker 2: evil that has nothing to do with evil, that has 433 00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:30,140 Speaker 2: to do with expansion of government. That's what it has 434 00:33:30,180 --> 00:33:32,779 Speaker 2: to do with. The United Nations just came out with 435 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:35,700 Speaker 2: a major statement that people have no reason to live 436 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:39,020 Speaker 2: on more than ten thousand dollars a year with global warming. 437 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:42,060 Speaker 2: We should redistribute all of the West's income to Africa 438 00:33:42,060 --> 00:33:49,260 Speaker 2: and Asia. That's all. And finally, which is about good 439 00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:52,459 Speaker 2: and evil, the velt dudshound. The world view of the 440 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:56,420 Speaker 2: left is not to divide the world or see the 441 00:33:56,459 --> 00:33:59,860 Speaker 2: great battle is between good and evil, but between rich 442 00:34:00,060 --> 00:34:07,219 Speaker 2: and poor. And here's that my phrase. Equality. Therefore, Trump's morality. 443 00:34:07,739 --> 00:34:10,020 Speaker 2: I will give you an example. Did you know that 444 00:34:10,060 --> 00:34:14,739 Speaker 2: the United Nations ranks the United States and Cuba as 445 00:34:14,860 --> 00:34:21,540 Speaker 2: essentially tied in healthcare. We're thirty six, they're thirty seven 446 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:28,219 Speaker 2: now In most hospitals in Cuba. From everything I have read, 447 00:34:28,340 --> 00:34:32,700 Speaker 2: it is hard to get an aspirin. Why would someone 448 00:34:32,779 --> 00:34:35,980 Speaker 2: be so foolish as to rank the United States and 449 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:41,300 Speaker 2: Cuba as one apart in healthcare? Because the left doesn't 450 00:34:41,339 --> 00:34:44,859 Speaker 2: really care about good and evil. It cares about equality, 451 00:34:45,819 --> 00:34:49,580 Speaker 2: and since almost no one except the highest communist party 452 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:54,980 Speaker 2: leaders can get any equality healthcare, health care stinks for 453 00:34:55,100 --> 00:35:03,299 Speaker 2: all Cubans. That's good because it's equal. Equality trumps other values. 454 00:35:03,859 --> 00:35:08,219 Speaker 2: Better that everyone have lousy healthcare than that some have 455 00:35:08,339 --> 00:35:14,259 Speaker 2: great healthcare and some have less than great healthcare. That's 456 00:35:14,339 --> 00:35:20,379 Speaker 2: the mindset. It is a resentment of distinction of the 457 00:35:20,819 --> 00:35:26,100 Speaker 2: any inequality, not good and evil. That doesn't Why has 458 00:35:26,180 --> 00:35:29,940 Speaker 2: the left been always tempted by communist tyrants? Why the 459 00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:33,340 Speaker 2: left doesn't like mass murder? Why have they been tempted? 460 00:35:33,940 --> 00:35:37,180 Speaker 2: Why do they make trips to visit Fidel Castro? Why 461 00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:40,899 Speaker 2: did they make trips to visit of Venezuela. Why did 462 00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:43,620 Speaker 2: they make trips to visit the Soviet Union in its 463 00:35:43,660 --> 00:35:49,100 Speaker 2: beginnings because of equality. Good and evil are not the 464 00:35:49,180 --> 00:35:53,660 Speaker 2: primary concerns of the left. Equality is a primary concern. 465 00:35:54,779 --> 00:35:58,499 Speaker 2: It's very, very different vision. They don't have the same 466 00:35:58,620 --> 00:36:02,700 Speaker 2: vision for America that conservatives have. They don't. It's not 467 00:36:02,739 --> 00:36:06,219 Speaker 2: a matter of difference in means, there is a difference 468 00:36:06,299 --> 00:36:11,460 Speaker 2: in ends. Finally, just let me give you three examples, 469 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:17,540 Speaker 2: and then I conclude about government intervention that you may 470 00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:26,219 Speaker 2: not know about. San Francisco has banned soda. No public 471 00:36:26,299 --> 00:36:31,620 Speaker 2: place may sell soda. Okay, did you know that? Did 472 00:36:31,660 --> 00:36:35,180 Speaker 2: you know that they are now considering a ban on 473 00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:43,899 Speaker 2: selling pets, including goldfish. The left considers the ownership of 474 00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:49,060 Speaker 2: an animal to be immoral, and San Francisco is the 475 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:53,100 Speaker 2: most leftist city in the country outside of Berkeley, and 476 00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:56,379 Speaker 2: that is the type of law. They have more and 477 00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:02,180 Speaker 2: moral laws to control people's lives. Maryland high school graduates 478 00:37:02,299 --> 00:37:06,100 Speaker 2: in Maryland must now, in order to get a high 479 00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:12,700 Speaker 2: school diploma, show proficiency in environmentalism. They still won't be 480 00:37:12,739 --> 00:37:15,779 Speaker 2: able to write a sentence correctly. They will have no 481 00:37:16,060 --> 00:37:19,460 Speaker 2: music or art in their curriculum, but they will have 482 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:25,100 Speaker 2: seen al Gore's film and virtually memorized it. This is 483 00:37:25,339 --> 00:37:29,460 Speaker 2: as I say about our education system and especially our universities. 484 00:37:29,980 --> 00:37:36,180 Speaker 2: Our universities are left wing seminaries. Once you understand that, 485 00:37:36,219 --> 00:37:39,219 Speaker 2: you can send your kid there, but please understand where 486 00:37:39,259 --> 00:37:43,180 Speaker 2: you're sending your child. A Christian seminary wishes to produce 487 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:46,820 Speaker 2: a committed Christian. The university wishes to produce a committed 488 00:37:46,859 --> 00:37:51,859 Speaker 2: secular leftist. The only difference between the Christian seminary and 489 00:37:51,940 --> 00:37:56,180 Speaker 2: the university is that the seminary admits its goal and 490 00:37:56,219 --> 00:37:59,819 Speaker 2: the colleges don't. That is my only resentment of the 491 00:37:59,940 --> 00:38:05,899 Speaker 2: universities that they deny that that is their intention. That 492 00:38:06,020 --> 00:38:10,100 Speaker 2: Maryland would deny that is its intention. Even though now 493 00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:13,419 Speaker 2: you must be proficient in environmentalism, do you think that 494 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:17,739 Speaker 2: anybody who is at all skeptical about man made carbon 495 00:38:17,819 --> 00:38:21,739 Speaker 2: emissions bringing the world to catastrophe will be allowed to 496 00:38:21,779 --> 00:38:25,420 Speaker 2: speak at a Maryland high school. It's a rhetorical question. 497 00:38:26,259 --> 00:38:31,580 Speaker 2: And finally, California, being under the leadership of the left 498 00:38:31,779 --> 00:38:36,180 Speaker 2: in its state legislature, has just passed a law sign 499 00:38:36,299 --> 00:38:40,540 Speaker 2: by Governor Jerry Brown, that there must be in all 500 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:47,340 Speaker 2: California high school textbooks and elementary school textbooks, they must 501 00:38:47,420 --> 00:38:57,259 Speaker 2: have dedicated pages to the contributions of LGBT, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, 502 00:38:57,339 --> 00:39:04,620 Speaker 2: and transgendered to American and Californian history. Now, I'll tell 503 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:08,020 Speaker 2: you what I resent. I don't resent the LGBT part. 504 00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:14,820 Speaker 2: I resent the tampering with history. I don't want any 505 00:39:15,580 --> 00:39:20,379 Speaker 2: affirmative action in a textbook. The purpose of a textbook 506 00:39:20,460 --> 00:39:24,460 Speaker 2: is to tell history and truth, not make people feel 507 00:39:24,460 --> 00:39:35,219 Speaker 2: good about themselves. It would be like demanding that a 508 00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:40,060 Speaker 2: history of the NBA have a special section on Japanese players, 509 00:39:43,779 --> 00:39:46,900 Speaker 2: or as I remember as a kid, that my funniest 510 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:53,419 Speaker 2: bar mits for gift great Jews in sports. I mean 511 00:39:53,460 --> 00:39:57,299 Speaker 2: there have been, but okay, that's not our first achievement 512 00:40:01,020 --> 00:40:04,100 Speaker 2: great And I didn't care. That's the thing I remember. 513 00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:06,580 Speaker 2: I was a conservative, I guess before I knew it, 514 00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:13,180 Speaker 2: I didn't care. You know, whatever Jewish pride I have, 515 00:40:13,219 --> 00:40:15,100 Speaker 2: and I have very deep Jewish pride, it goes to 516 00:40:15,259 --> 00:40:18,060 Speaker 2: the fact that Abraham was the first Monothy, is that 517 00:40:18,140 --> 00:40:20,859 Speaker 2: we gave the world the Ten Commandments. That's big. That 518 00:40:20,980 --> 00:40:24,220 Speaker 2: Benny Leonard was a boxer and Hank Greenberg had fifty 519 00:40:24,259 --> 00:40:28,020 Speaker 2: eight home runs doesn't move me. It doesn't. It doesn't. 520 00:40:28,060 --> 00:40:33,220 Speaker 2: What am I gonna say now? If anybody excluded Benny 521 00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:37,379 Speaker 2: Leonard from a boxing book because he was Jewish, that's despicable. 522 00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:42,620 Speaker 2: If anybody is really not discussing lesbian contributions to the Revolution, 523 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:46,819 Speaker 2: that's wrong. But I can't. I just they didn't give 524 00:40:46,859 --> 00:40:50,219 Speaker 2: one example. Show me a cross dresser we missed in 525 00:40:50,259 --> 00:40:55,259 Speaker 2: American history work, Well, that's transgrender. That's part of transgender 526 00:40:57,420 --> 00:41:00,380 Speaker 2: and you should have an absolute right to cross dress. 527 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:02,020 Speaker 2: That is not my point at all, and I'm not 528 00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:04,779 Speaker 2: making fun of those who that's If that's your thing, 529 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,100 Speaker 2: that's your thing. If your wife, you're just your wife 530 00:41:07,140 --> 00:41:10,620 Speaker 2: has to like it, that's my only I It's hard 531 00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:17,020 Speaker 2: for me to imagine. But whatever works works. My point 532 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:20,620 Speaker 2: is only how absurd we have cut. That's what it means. 533 00:41:21,060 --> 00:41:25,260 Speaker 2: If there's nothing about transgendered now, that means two things. 534 00:41:25,259 --> 00:41:32,339 Speaker 2: Transgendered means those who have undergone a surgery to change sex, 535 00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:34,140 Speaker 2: and I have no issue with that at all. Or 536 00:41:34,180 --> 00:41:37,900 Speaker 2: those who maintain their biological sex but dresses the other sex. 537 00:41:38,940 --> 00:41:44,739 Speaker 2: Where have they been missed in textbooks? That means they 538 00:41:44,779 --> 00:41:49,180 Speaker 2: will make up stuff to show kids how important the 539 00:41:49,259 --> 00:41:53,580 Speaker 2: transgendered and the bisexual and the gay. And I don't 540 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:56,180 Speaker 2: want this for Jews. I don't want any law. You 541 00:41:56,299 --> 00:41:59,219 Speaker 2: must have x amount of attention to Jews and textbooks, 542 00:41:59,620 --> 00:42:03,580 Speaker 2: there should be one governing principle in a textbook. Tell 543 00:42:03,620 --> 00:42:09,339 Speaker 2: the truth. That's all that matters. That is all that matters. No, 544 00:42:09,580 --> 00:42:11,700 Speaker 2: let me tell you how bad it's gotten. Let me 545 00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:15,259 Speaker 2: tell you how corrupting the left is of everything. They 546 00:42:15,339 --> 00:42:16,339 Speaker 2: touch everything. 547 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:19,819 Speaker 1: This episode of timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 548 00:42:25,339 --> 00:42:30,140 Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom. 549 00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:35,379 Speaker 2: I am a very very big officionado of classical music. 550 00:42:35,580 --> 00:42:39,620 Speaker 2: I conduct orchestras in southern California periodically brought a lot 551 00:42:39,620 --> 00:42:42,180 Speaker 2: of people to hopefully to love classical music. I know 552 00:42:42,259 --> 00:42:45,739 Speaker 2: a lot about it. The New York Times last year 553 00:42:45,779 --> 00:42:48,859 Speaker 2: listed the ten greatest composers, which is always a fun 554 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:55,180 Speaker 2: exercise and doesn't matter. He didn't include Heiden or Handle, 555 00:42:56,460 --> 00:42:59,739 Speaker 2: the New York Times a correspondent in the top ten, 556 00:43:02,259 --> 00:43:07,220 Speaker 2: which was bizarre given that he included Debuss and bartok Okay, 557 00:43:07,540 --> 00:43:10,740 Speaker 2: who were fine but not better than Hiding and Handle. 558 00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:20,459 Speaker 2: But he said, why too many Austrians. P Anthony Thomasini. 559 00:43:21,020 --> 00:43:26,779 Speaker 2: Look it up. There's even affirmative action. There too many Austrians. 560 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:30,259 Speaker 2: So it's not really a list of the ten greatest composers. 561 00:43:30,620 --> 00:43:33,620 Speaker 2: It's the ten greatest composers who are not only Austrian. 562 00:43:35,540 --> 00:43:37,620 Speaker 2: Now what do I care if all ten are Austrian? 563 00:43:37,739 --> 00:43:40,020 Speaker 2: What the hell do I care? Don't I want to 564 00:43:40,060 --> 00:43:43,140 Speaker 2: know who the ten best musicians are? Why is there 565 00:43:43,180 --> 00:43:47,420 Speaker 2: no tie on the list? No Burmese, not one person 566 00:43:47,460 --> 00:43:54,740 Speaker 2: from South America? Where's Inostera? They corrupt everything because truth. 567 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:58,780 Speaker 2: There are right wing liars, there are left wing liars. 568 00:43:58,819 --> 00:44:01,739 Speaker 2: There are left wing truth tellers and right wing truth tellers. 569 00:44:02,060 --> 00:44:07,020 Speaker 2: But truth is not a left wing value. Feeling good 570 00:44:07,859 --> 00:44:13,500 Speaker 2: is a left wing value. We want to make Hungarians 571 00:44:13,540 --> 00:44:16,060 Speaker 2: and French feel good. They were off the list. If 572 00:44:16,140 --> 00:44:20,460 Speaker 2: Heiden and Handle were on the list. That's what it's about. 573 00:44:21,980 --> 00:44:27,819 Speaker 2: It's utterly corruptive, but it's so inundating of our society. 574 00:44:27,859 --> 00:44:31,979 Speaker 2: It's so daily. US Air could not kick a man 575 00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:34,660 Speaker 2: off its plane. Do you know this story? Two months 576 00:44:34,700 --> 00:44:38,939 Speaker 2: ago a man boarded a plane on US Air and 577 00:44:38,980 --> 00:44:47,180 Speaker 2: he was wearing only panties and a bra. You're all laughing. 578 00:44:47,219 --> 00:44:48,779 Speaker 2: You didn't have to sit next to him. I don't 579 00:44:48,779 --> 00:44:52,620 Speaker 2: know what, but we were laughing about, well, lack of 580 00:44:52,620 --> 00:44:58,299 Speaker 2: sympathy in this group. Why didn't US Air kick him off? 581 00:45:00,339 --> 00:45:04,180 Speaker 2: I mean, isn't it it doesn't. Isn't there some concept 582 00:45:04,219 --> 00:45:07,339 Speaker 2: of propriety left? No, there isn't. They would have been 583 00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:11,859 Speaker 2: sued for bigotry, for some sort of phobia. By the way, 584 00:45:11,859 --> 00:45:13,660 Speaker 2: the man. I don't know if the man was gay, 585 00:45:14,219 --> 00:45:20,060 Speaker 2: and if I had to bet he isn't. It has 586 00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:22,299 Speaker 2: nothing to do with sexual orientation. It has to do 587 00:45:22,339 --> 00:45:30,140 Speaker 2: with propriety. But that's where we've come. They were asked. 588 00:45:30,219 --> 00:45:33,700 Speaker 2: US Airs spokeswoman was asked, why didn't you remove the 589 00:45:33,739 --> 00:45:36,540 Speaker 2: guy from the flight? She said, because we have no 590 00:45:36,660 --> 00:45:42,700 Speaker 2: dress code on US Air and they don't. They probably don't. 591 00:45:43,819 --> 00:45:47,539 Speaker 2: Dress code is considered very conservative dress codes and high 592 00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:51,580 Speaker 2: schools is only conservatives at four, even though grades and 593 00:45:52,259 --> 00:45:57,579 Speaker 2: conduct are improved whenever kids have to wear a school uniform. 594 00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:01,140 Speaker 2: It's a very great battle, my friends, and the only 595 00:46:01,180 --> 00:46:04,220 Speaker 2: place still battling it is the United States. Western Europe 596 00:46:04,299 --> 00:46:10,220 Speaker 2: gave up the left one. This is the last stand 597 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,780 Speaker 2: and this battle is taking place obviously right this moment 598 00:46:14,819 --> 00:46:20,379 Speaker 2: in Washington, DC. There is something immoral about spending more 599 00:46:20,420 --> 00:46:24,460 Speaker 2: than you can afford to spend. It isn't there but 600 00:46:24,580 --> 00:46:29,540 Speaker 2: for only one for only one party, is it considered 601 00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:34,219 Speaker 2: an immoral issue. That's the difference, and it is a 602 00:46:34,299 --> 00:46:37,540 Speaker 2: huge difference, and we have to know it because the 603 00:46:37,580 --> 00:46:43,379 Speaker 2: fight is ultimately one of who does more good, and 604 00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:46,260 Speaker 2: there is no question in my mind which one does. 605 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:58,899 Speaker 2: Thanks very very much, I thank you, thank you. 606 00:46:59,779 --> 00:47:04,100 Speaker 1: This has been timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. Visit dennisprager 607 00:47:04,140 --> 00:47:07,700 Speaker 1: dot com for thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, 608 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:12,379 Speaker 1: and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.