WEBVTT - Timeless Wisdom: MLK Day Highlight 0:00:21.500 --> 0:00:25.820 Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of 0:00:25.860 --> 0:00:29.500 hours of Dennis's lectures courses in classic radio programs. Had 0:00:29.500 --> 0:00:42.500 to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennisprager dot com. 0:00:41.260 --> 0:00:43.460 The word. 0:00:44.740 --> 0:00:54.580 Come on and way and the Lord jem In, the 0:00:54.780 --> 0:01:01.260 word God, God, the word. 0:01:03.700 --> 0:01:07.100 I'm happy to John with you today. 0:01:09.100 --> 0:01:15.060 And what will go down in history as the greatest 0:01:15.140 --> 0:01:28.420 demonstration folk freedom in the history of Homni. So, even 0:01:28.540 --> 0:01:33.340 though we face the difficulties of to day and tomorrow, 0:01:34.780 --> 0:01:39.700 I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply 0:01:39.780 --> 0:01:45.700 rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that 0:01:45.820 --> 0:01:52.700 one day this nation will rise up, live out the 0:01:52.740 --> 0:01:54.020 true meaning of its creed. 0:01:55.460 --> 0:01:57.900 We hold these choos to be self. 0:01:57.620 --> 0:02:13.779 Evident, that all men are created. A dream that one day, 0:02:13.820 --> 0:02:19.419 on the Red Hills for Jordan, Suns of farmer slaves and. 0:02:19.419 --> 0:02:23.100 The Suns are farmer playbo, we may be. 0:02:23.220 --> 0:02:24.380 Able to sit. 0:02:24.300 --> 0:02:27.419 Down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a 0:02:27.500 --> 0:02:30.700 dream my our little. 0:02:30.540 --> 0:02:35.300 Children, one of the America wed They will. 0:02:35.100 --> 0:02:38.020 Not be judged by the color of that skin, but by. 0:02:37.900 --> 0:02:39.380 The content of that character. 0:02:39.780 --> 0:02:40.620 I have a dream. 0:02:40.820 --> 0:02:48.740 Today's welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, and this is 0:02:48.820 --> 0:02:52.700 Martin Luther King Day. As you know, it is my 0:02:53.220 --> 0:02:56.900 policy to honor the national holidays, otherwise they shouldn't be 0:02:56.900 --> 0:03:00.060 a national holiday. I affirm that this ought to be 0:03:00.100 --> 0:03:03.660 a national holiday. I believe, I have believed my whole 0:03:03.700 --> 0:03:08.100 life that Martin Luther King Junior, among other things, prevented 0:03:08.780 --> 0:03:13.660 racial violence in this country. For that alone, he has 0:03:13.740 --> 0:03:18.700 a very special place in heaven, and I don't think 0:03:19.180 --> 0:03:21.940 that there is a a way to. 0:03:23.660 --> 0:03:24.100 Deny that. 0:03:27.340 --> 0:03:30.340 And he was an orator of the first order. I 0:03:30.340 --> 0:03:33.980 mean truly one of the great orators. I wish we 0:03:34.060 --> 0:03:36.900 had recordings of all the great orders in history and 0:03:36.980 --> 0:03:41.380 certainly in American history. But obviously recording is a relatively 0:03:41.420 --> 0:03:47.500 brand new mechanical device. But happily we have that speech 0:03:47.620 --> 0:03:52.620 and so many others. You read them, they last, that's 0:03:52.660 --> 0:03:57.340 the greatness of them. They last. And it's very interesting, 0:03:57.460 --> 0:04:01.100 though not always emphasized, how rooted he was in his 0:04:01.180 --> 0:04:06.940 Americanism and in his Christianity. It's now everybody's doctor King, 0:04:07.140 --> 0:04:10.220 doctor King, doctor King, doctor King, right, It's only is 0:04:10.260 --> 0:04:13.100 doctor King. Believe me, he didn't think of himself as 0:04:13.140 --> 0:04:19.620 doctor King. He thought of himself as Reverend King. It's 0:04:19.659 --> 0:04:24.340 a fact. It's a fascinating switch because he was not 0:04:24.500 --> 0:04:28.980 known as Doctor King at the time, because the American 0:04:29.140 --> 0:04:32.260 public had not yet been taken over by the secular 0:04:33.140 --> 0:04:40.340 left that finds religion useless at best and dangerous at worst. 0:04:41.620 --> 0:04:45.940 And he was completely rooted in his Christianity, so many 0:04:45.980 --> 0:04:52.820 of his speeches were God soaked and Christianity soaked. But 0:04:53.380 --> 0:04:59.300 we have truly photoshopped history here with Doctor King. I 0:04:59.340 --> 0:05:02.900 know there is a great joke that occurred that was 0:05:02.940 --> 0:05:07.299 told in Jewish life. There was a time until again 0:05:07.380 --> 0:05:11.940 the same thing happened where rabbis were known as rabbis, 0:05:11.980 --> 0:05:14.340 just as Reverend King was known as Reverend kings Is, 0:05:14.500 --> 0:05:16.780 Rabbi so and so, Rabbi so and so, Rabbi so 0:05:16.820 --> 0:05:20.660 and so. Then within a generation it was doctor so 0:05:20.900 --> 0:05:27.099 and so, Rabbi, doctor so and so rabbi, and sometimes 0:05:27.380 --> 0:05:31.020 just doctor so and so. And there was a joke 0:05:31.100 --> 0:05:36.620 told when the rabbis became doctors, the Jews got sick, 0:05:38.580 --> 0:05:44.020 A great great line when rabbis became Jews got sick. 0:05:45.020 --> 0:05:48.980 When Martin Luther King, when the Reverend became a doctor, 0:05:49.460 --> 0:05:58.340 America got sick. I respect completely people who've gotten doctorates. 0:05:58.500 --> 0:06:02.060 There is a tremendous amount of work involved in getting 0:06:02.100 --> 0:06:05.779 any doctorate. I know that, I acknowledge it, and I 0:06:05.860 --> 0:06:11.500 respect it. But in comparison to the good done by rabbis, 0:06:11.500 --> 0:06:19.300 priests and ministers versus PhDs, excuse me, there's no comparison. 0:06:22.100 --> 0:06:24.820 The founder of the institute that I came out to 0:06:24.860 --> 0:06:30.779 California in nineteen seventy six, in my twenties to direct, 0:06:31.020 --> 0:06:32.620 he was fifty years. 0:06:32.340 --> 0:06:33.099 Older than I. 0:06:33.100 --> 0:06:35.979 I was twenty six, he was seventy six. Actually I 0:06:35.980 --> 0:06:40.060 was twenty four when I came out first. He was 0:06:40.700 --> 0:06:44.820 seventy four, and he had a thick Russian accent. He 0:06:44.860 --> 0:06:50.500 was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and he would say regularly 0:06:50.540 --> 0:06:55.140 in his speeches, you know, it is very possible to 0:06:55.300 --> 0:07:01.620 be a PhD. And the sob it was, and he 0:07:01.700 --> 0:07:08.979 had and he was doctor Barney, I mean so and 0:07:09.060 --> 0:07:13.140 so forgive me for referring to him as the Reverend King. 0:07:13.700 --> 0:07:15.860 I don't really give a whod if he got a PhD. 0:07:16.260 --> 0:07:17.940 I'm sure, I'm sure there. 0:07:17.940 --> 0:07:19.980 Was a sweet day for him, but it's not what 0:07:20.060 --> 0:07:23.380 animated him. He did not do what he did because 0:07:23.380 --> 0:07:25.740 of his PhD. He did what he did because he 0:07:25.820 --> 0:07:30.660 was a reverend. This is all lost, all lost in 0:07:30.740 --> 0:07:34.060 the way things are taught today and the emphasis on 0:07:34.180 --> 0:07:39.620 this whole notion of doctor. Anyway, A good day to you. 0:07:40.060 --> 0:07:43.580 I marvel on a day like this, on a totally 0:07:43.620 --> 0:07:48.980 separate issue, I marvel at the lack of traffic on 0:07:49.060 --> 0:07:52.020 the freeways as we call them in southern California and 0:07:52.140 --> 0:07:56.180 northern California for that matter. On the freeway today. We 0:07:56.380 --> 0:08:00.100 just zoomed, all of us who were on the roads 0:08:00.140 --> 0:08:03.580 just zoomed. It was great, and of course it could 0:08:03.580 --> 0:08:09.540 only mean one thing. The number of government workers is astonishing, right, 0:08:09.620 --> 0:08:13.500 Everybody else is working. The restaurants are open, doctors are 0:08:13.540 --> 0:08:19.660 seeing patients, people are having business meetings. It's banks, I mean, 0:08:19.700 --> 0:08:22.300 it's not bankers, Okay. The reason for the lack of 0:08:22.380 --> 0:08:28.420 traffic is not bankers and bank tellers. It's government workers 0:08:29.220 --> 0:08:33.780 and not police, and not and not firemen. Their their 0:08:33.819 --> 0:08:38.020 at work as always, so we're talking about it just 0:08:38.179 --> 0:08:42.860 gives you an idea of the vastness of the numbers 0:08:42.900 --> 0:08:46.460 of people who work for the government, and that this 0:08:46.740 --> 0:08:51.580 that is the desire of the Democrats to increase that number, 0:08:51.620 --> 0:08:54.660 and it has been It's The only thing that's been increased, 0:08:55.500 --> 0:08:58.980 the only employment that's been increased under Barack Obama has 0:08:59.100 --> 0:09:04.620 been federal workers. It's unbelievable to have increased the number 0:09:05.620 --> 0:09:10.260 during this recession. It's unbelievable to increase the number without 0:09:10.260 --> 0:09:16.460 a recession. But remember something, it's a bought vote. Please 0:09:16.660 --> 0:09:22.459 understand that it is as close to handing people cash 0:09:23.179 --> 0:09:27.140 for voting for a party as you can get. Vote 0:09:27.179 --> 0:09:31.460 for our party. We will give you money and give 0:09:31.500 --> 0:09:36.819 you a federal or state or municipal job. 0:09:37.780 --> 0:09:38.220 That's it. 0:09:39.700 --> 0:09:43.700 So the Democrats have not only no, they have no 0:09:43.860 --> 0:09:52.700 philosophical and they have no self issue incentive to to 0:09:52.900 --> 0:09:55.540 decrease the number of government employees. 0:09:56.580 --> 0:09:57.060 None. 0:09:57.300 --> 0:10:03.260 It only hurts them. They're not interested in prosperity. They're 0:10:03.260 --> 0:10:07.020 interested in equality. So you could say, well, but everybody 0:10:07.060 --> 0:10:09.580 knows that the more people employed in the private sector, 0:10:09.620 --> 0:10:10.939 the better it is for the economy. 0:10:11.620 --> 0:10:13.260 But it's irrelevant. 0:10:15.100 --> 0:10:19.100 It's like telling somebody on the equator how to shovels. 0:10:19.179 --> 0:10:23.900 Know they're not in interested. The Left is as interested 0:10:23.940 --> 0:10:28.620 in prosperity as people at the equator are in snowshovels. 0:10:30.260 --> 0:10:36.620 There's one for you, and I mean it literally. The 0:10:36.700 --> 0:10:40.940 Left has never been interested in prosperity, nor has it 0:10:40.980 --> 0:10:47.179 ever brought it about. The left is interested in material equality. 0:10:47.860 --> 0:10:51.900 I've said this often, I will say it often because 0:10:51.940 --> 0:10:57.420 it applies regularly. So the freeways are empty today, relatively 0:10:57.500 --> 0:10:59.300 so because of all. 0:10:59.580 --> 0:11:01.620 The government workers. You think we need them all. 0:11:03.060 --> 0:11:04.780 And I hate to say this because I don't want 0:11:04.820 --> 0:11:08.939 anybody listening or even not listening, to lose a job. 0:11:09.420 --> 0:11:13.819 It bothers me terribly. So we're in a terrible quagmire 0:11:13.900 --> 0:11:19.180 here of constant hiring, and then our hearts break at 0:11:19.179 --> 0:11:24.460 anybody being let go. But at some point, my friends, 0:11:25.100 --> 0:11:29.540 you just we cannot sustain this number. One A Praguer 0:11:29.620 --> 0:11:32.860 seven seven six The Dennis Praguer Show. 0:11:33.900 --> 0:11:37.220 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:11:42.740 --> 0:11:55.420 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom. 0:11:55.500 --> 0:12:02.860 Hi, everybody, Dennis Prager. I was marveling after speaking about 0:12:03.620 --> 0:12:06.260 Martin Luther King Day, and I will continue because I 0:12:06.340 --> 0:12:07.860 take national holiday seriously. 0:12:07.900 --> 0:12:10.740 As you know, I was. 0:12:10.740 --> 0:12:15.220 Talking about the relative lack of traffic, which can only 0:12:15.260 --> 0:12:19.740 mean only mean one thing. The number of government workers 0:12:19.940 --> 0:12:24.740 is quite quite high. If nothing else, at least allow 0:12:24.780 --> 0:12:28.660 the attrition rate to reduce the numbers. Just don't rehire 0:12:28.740 --> 0:12:34.140 as people leave jobs. But you see, it's all a 0:12:34.220 --> 0:12:37.340 it's a vicious cycle because the less money you allow 0:12:37.380 --> 0:12:39.900 the private sector, the less hiring will take place in 0:12:39.900 --> 0:12:44.780 the private sector. If taxes weren't as high as they are, 0:12:44.820 --> 0:12:46.620 I would be hiring people. Then I don't even run 0:12:46.620 --> 0:12:51.180 a business. But are there always things that I would 0:12:51.260 --> 0:12:56.660 love to do. But it's it's confiscatory between California and 0:12:56.700 --> 0:13:00.780 the state and all the other taxes. We are taxed, 0:13:02.060 --> 0:13:04.700 and many are. Anybody over two hundred thousand dollars a 0:13:04.740 --> 0:13:06.700 person is tax at a fifty percent rate. 0:13:07.500 --> 0:13:10.020 Fifty it's really more than fifty. 0:13:11.700 --> 0:13:14.540 And there's going to be a proposition put up by 0:13:14.580 --> 0:13:18.020 the governor of California to cotemporarily. I always got to 0:13:18.060 --> 0:13:21.660 kick out of that. A temporary tax rate is like 0:13:23.620 --> 0:13:32.540 it's like partial pregnancy. It doesn't exist. But the rhetoric 0:13:32.700 --> 0:13:36.220 of the Democrats is such that to say this is 0:13:36.260 --> 0:13:39.860 to be selfish, Well, you're not paying your fair share. 0:13:40.100 --> 0:13:45.460 It becomes the answer what so it was the great 0:13:45.540 --> 0:13:49.860 question is what is one's fair share? I had one 0:13:49.900 --> 0:13:53.260 of the most powerful liberals in America, Henry Waxman, I 0:13:53.380 --> 0:13:58.140 have known personally for decades, and I had him on 0:13:58.179 --> 0:14:00.740 the show and I asked him that question. Do you 0:14:00.780 --> 0:14:04.020 have the Do you have that in the Sean? Do 0:14:04.060 --> 0:14:07.020 you have that in our reservoir of. 0:14:08.740 --> 0:14:09.460 Dialogues? 0:14:09.980 --> 0:14:14.500 When I asked the Congressman Waxman, how much taxes are enough? 0:14:17.179 --> 0:14:20.460 And it was an important question and the answer is 0:14:20.700 --> 0:14:25.460 revealing of thought on the left. Would you give a 0:14:25.540 --> 0:14:28.260 percentage of income that would be paid an income text 0:14:28.260 --> 0:14:31.700 that you think would begin to shatter people's incentives to 0:14:31.780 --> 0:14:32.300 work hard. 0:14:33.660 --> 0:14:36.460 I haven't reflected on that. I wouldn't want to just 0:14:36.500 --> 0:14:37.540 pick a number. 0:14:38.100 --> 0:14:41.500 Okay, And Krugman is the same thing. In the New 0:14:41.580 --> 0:14:44.500 York Times, there's never a number. If they tell what 0:14:44.660 --> 0:14:50.180 is the number? What is the amount that you feel 0:14:50.260 --> 0:14:53.300 is fair? And remember it is entirely based on what 0:14:53.340 --> 0:14:57.620 the left feels is fair. It's a completely subjective concept. 0:14:59.620 --> 0:15:04.140 And the problem is though that their fairness, like Shariah, 0:15:04.180 --> 0:15:10.740 is imposed on others. Leftism is a very, very compulsory religion, 0:15:12.460 --> 0:15:16.940 as you will see when my book Still the Best 0:15:16.980 --> 0:15:19.620 Hope comes out at the end of April. Because I 0:15:19.700 --> 0:15:25.300 have this vast section on the left, analyzing, explaining if 0:15:25.340 --> 0:15:29.500 we think it that fifty seven percent of your income 0:15:29.980 --> 0:15:31.100 is fair, it's fair. 0:15:31.620 --> 0:15:34.620 Seventy percent is fair, then it's fair. And if you 0:15:34.660 --> 0:15:38.740 don't pay it, we arrest you. That's it. That is 0:15:38.780 --> 0:15:41.020 the way it is. Now. Let me ask you if 0:15:41.060 --> 0:15:45.060 you think that do you think be fair? Be leaven? 0:15:45.140 --> 0:15:48.500 Those of you who are liberal and left on these issues, 0:15:49.300 --> 0:15:53.859 I want you to think for a moment, just forget fairness, 0:15:54.620 --> 0:15:56.620 forget all other subjects. 0:15:56.820 --> 0:15:57.260 Just one. 0:15:57.580 --> 0:16:04.620 I'll ask a narrow focused question, narrowly focused question. If 0:16:04.700 --> 0:16:09.340 Americans could keep instead of fifty percent of their money, 0:16:09.740 --> 0:16:12.380 they could keep let us say, seventy five percent of 0:16:12.380 --> 0:16:17.020 their money. Do you think that that would be an 0:16:17.060 --> 0:16:20.940 engine of economic growth? That's all I want. We can 0:16:20.980 --> 0:16:26.580 then talk about fairness. But before fairness, I just just 0:16:26.660 --> 0:16:29.660 if we care about economic growth. Okay, we're let's say 0:16:29.700 --> 0:16:32.740 we're that narrowly focused. Do you think there will be 0:16:33.140 --> 0:16:38.220 more or fewer jobs if Americans could keep seventy five 0:16:38.260 --> 0:16:41.260 percent of their income? What do you think Americans do 0:16:41.900 --> 0:16:44.700 with income that doesn't go to necessities? 0:16:44.700 --> 0:16:46.980 What do you think they do with it? Keep it 0:16:47.020 --> 0:16:53.140 in a mattress? All right? 0:16:53.220 --> 0:16:53.340 One? 0:16:53.420 --> 0:16:58.380 A Praguer seven seven six and let's see here our 0:16:58.380 --> 0:17:00.660 Philadelphia call or hung up and I want here. 0:17:01.260 --> 0:17:04.140 He had a thought on this. Maybe you could get 0:17:04.220 --> 0:17:04.700 back in. 0:17:04.700 --> 0:17:09.540 In the meantime, let's go to Dallas and one hello 0:17:09.619 --> 0:17:10.499 on Dennis Prager. 0:17:10.580 --> 0:17:12.180 Hi, Hey Dennis, Dennis, how are. 0:17:12.100 --> 0:17:13.419 You doing great? Thanks? 0:17:13.780 --> 0:17:16.539 I remember watching you back on Crossfire when you were 0:17:16.580 --> 0:17:21.500 feeling for Buchanan. Really I did, Yeah, didn't you. Didn't 0:17:21.500 --> 0:17:22.820 you come across one time? 0:17:22.940 --> 0:17:25.179 No, I had a I had a TV show in 0:17:25.219 --> 0:17:28.540 the nineties. Maybe that's what you're referring to. Yeah, but 0:17:28.580 --> 0:17:30.499 it was on so late. I don't blame you for 0:17:30.820 --> 0:17:31.580 mixing me up. 0:17:33.340 --> 0:17:37.260 Hey, you made a comment while ago that the federal 0:17:37.340 --> 0:17:44.979 employment roles have been increased. Yes, I went to a 0:17:45.100 --> 0:17:49.459 job there here in Dallas and the I R S 0:17:49.619 --> 0:17:52.060 was there, and I was applying to be a pair 0:17:52.100 --> 0:17:55.539 of you know, for paralygical position, and they told me 0:17:56.859 --> 0:18:02.219 that there is a federal hiring freeze because simply that 0:18:02.379 --> 0:18:05.179 Reid and the others have failed to pass a budget. 0:18:06.780 --> 0:18:08.899 Well, they're right about read, but they're not. 0:18:09.300 --> 0:18:11.420 I mean, from what I know, the I R S 0:18:12.060 --> 0:18:14.179 was adding tens of thousands of agents. 0:18:14.540 --> 0:18:16.580 Well, have you talked to the Department itself. 0:18:16.820 --> 0:18:20.219 No, no, but that's what I'm going to look into that. Well, anyway, 0:18:20.219 --> 0:18:22.180 why we're sink? Why were they in a job fair 0:18:22.260 --> 0:18:23.739 if they had no jobs to offer? 0:18:24.179 --> 0:18:29.340 That's why I asked them, well, what are you doing here? Well, 0:18:29.500 --> 0:18:33.739 just like any employer when the economy for you know, 0:18:34.100 --> 0:18:36.379 uh burns up toward you know. 0:18:36.459 --> 0:18:37.899 Income, we'll keep your name. 0:18:38.060 --> 0:18:41.339 It was that they probably want an inventory a prospect. 0:18:41.739 --> 0:18:45.139 I see, okay, because they were where I go, they're 0:18:45.179 --> 0:18:48.179 either taking applications of resume, but they're not hiring. 0:18:48.699 --> 0:18:51.619 So right now, so you still haven't gotten a job 0:18:51.739 --> 0:18:52.139 right now? 0:18:52.699 --> 0:18:52.939 Right? 0:18:53.820 --> 0:18:55.539 Well, what's your line of work? One? 0:18:56.060 --> 0:19:00.739 Well, I was a workers comp specialist for Tenant Health Corporation. 0:19:01.100 --> 0:19:03.099 Uh huh, I was. I was a collector. I was 0:19:03.100 --> 0:19:08.539 collecting workers comp insurance pendiments from workers comp carriers and 0:19:08.739 --> 0:19:14.540 also monitoring case status from attorneys who represented patients whose 0:19:14.580 --> 0:19:16.259 employers had no insurance. 0:19:16.459 --> 0:19:19.939 Well, it's certainly a specialized knowledge. I really wish you 0:19:19.979 --> 0:19:24.780 well won It's it breaks my heart because I really 0:19:24.820 --> 0:19:27.900 believe there's an answer to the problem of the wands 0:19:28.459 --> 0:19:32.259 in our society, and it is a problem. It is 0:19:32.300 --> 0:19:35.659 a tragedy for both sexes to lose a job, obviously, 0:19:36.340 --> 0:19:40.340 but each sex reacts differently as a general rule, to 0:19:40.419 --> 0:19:41.499 different things in life. 0:19:42.540 --> 0:19:45.580 And a man is more his self. 0:19:45.500 --> 0:19:50.100 Image and his sense of self is shaped by profession 0:19:50.260 --> 0:19:53.979 more than most women's lives are. It's not good or bad. 0:19:54.060 --> 0:19:57.619 It's just either true or false. And I believe it's true. 0:19:57.859 --> 0:20:02.540 So I'm truly sorry, and I think we have solutions. 0:20:02.540 --> 0:20:05.379 We who are called conservatives. Back in a moment. I'm 0:20:05.419 --> 0:20:06.139 Dennis Prager. 0:20:08.340 --> 0:20:11.619 This episode of timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:20:17.219 --> 0:20:20.859 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdo. 0:20:27.060 --> 0:20:29.899 Hi, everybody, Dennis Prager here on this Martin Luther King 0:20:30.060 --> 0:20:35.659 Day Show. Got some interesting calls. One eight Praguer seven 0:20:35.780 --> 0:20:38.820 seven six is the number, and let's. 0:20:38.500 --> 0:20:42.820 Go to Paul and Philadelphia. Hi, Paul, Dennis Prager. 0:20:43.300 --> 0:20:45.460 Hi, it's an honor to talk to you. I really 0:20:45.540 --> 0:20:47.459 am inspired by a lot of what you say. But 0:20:47.540 --> 0:20:50.939 I think I do have something important to say. Two things. One, 0:20:51.739 --> 0:20:55.299 I'm a mailman and most of my other fellow workers, 0:20:55.379 --> 0:20:58.699 they they they want. They listen to the part of 0:20:59.139 --> 0:21:03.179 workers and say I'll take the money. Democrats are better 0:21:03.219 --> 0:21:06.299 for them. Postal, Yes, but you're selling your soul and 0:21:06.340 --> 0:21:09.859 the soul of the future generations about the social will issues. 0:21:09.939 --> 0:21:12.060 In other words, yeah, I'll be like a dog jumping 0:21:12.139 --> 0:21:16.539 for my family money selfishly and be being controlled, so 0:21:16.699 --> 0:21:20.179 you don't you know, you know, take game beverage and 0:21:20.619 --> 0:21:23.859 marshal birth abortion. But also I'm relating it to another thing. 0:21:23.979 --> 0:21:27.179 I'm a Catholic and I read a lot and like, 0:21:27.340 --> 0:21:30.899 for example, Archbishop Shappuvert a book called Render and the 0:21:30.979 --> 0:21:34.020 Caesar is how there's no typratenduture state. But I'm making 0:21:34.060 --> 0:21:38.300 a point that to be Catholic, really zero people should 0:21:38.340 --> 0:21:40.580 be voting Democrat, not because the popes and not because 0:21:40.619 --> 0:21:43.060 I say, but because you deeply understand you're not a child. 0:21:43.260 --> 0:21:48.300 You understand why that there's all issues are not equal. 0:21:48.580 --> 0:21:51.219 So yeah, I'll tell you the truth, Paul. 0:21:51.659 --> 0:21:54.899 It's a real uh powerful point you're making, and it's 0:21:54.939 --> 0:21:56.379 always been a question to me. 0:21:57.379 --> 0:21:59.220 So many Union. 0:21:58.979 --> 0:22:04.500 Members have conservative and traditional values on social and other 0:22:04.580 --> 0:22:10.619 issues and then vote Democrat for the reasons that you 0:22:10.699 --> 0:22:14.059 and I are saying, because they will give us a 0:22:14.060 --> 0:22:15.020 better pension plan. 0:22:17.500 --> 0:22:20.419 And so if it's it's. 0:22:20.340 --> 0:22:24.819 It's terrible, terrible thing. I can't believe that they're happy 0:22:24.939 --> 0:22:28.739 when they pull the lever, unless they have just dulled 0:22:28.780 --> 0:22:30.979 their conscience on this matter. I mean, if you are 0:22:31.020 --> 0:22:33.340 a leftist and you're a Union member, then of course 0:22:33.379 --> 0:22:37.260 you vote Democrat. If you're a leftist, you should vote Democrat. 0:22:37.260 --> 0:22:39.540 But if you're not a leftist, you shouldn't. You don't 0:22:39.580 --> 0:22:41.739 have to be a right winger to vote conservative. You 0:22:41.899 --> 0:22:44.619 just have to be a non leftist to vote Republican. 0:22:47.419 --> 0:22:53.179 The it's so interesting because it's the media run by 0:22:53.179 --> 0:22:56.980 folks on the left that the Republicans are described as 0:22:57.020 --> 0:23:00.460 having been taken over by the far right. What does 0:23:00.500 --> 0:23:02.739 it mean to be far right? I mean to analyze 0:23:02.739 --> 0:23:07.060 the positions for a moment. What far right means lower 0:23:07.100 --> 0:23:12.139 taxes and smaller government is now far right? That's far right? 0:23:13.780 --> 0:23:20.779 What's moderate right? It's so dishonest. It's just a dishonest thing. 0:23:23.179 --> 0:23:26.540 But far left is not a Supreme Court telling a 0:23:26.619 --> 0:23:30.859 New York school that school kids can't say God bless 0:23:30.899 --> 0:23:35.139 our teachers and our parents. Right, that's not far left, 0:23:35.780 --> 0:23:39.540 that's not extreme. There's no far left. Remember that, there's 0:23:39.580 --> 0:23:44.260 no far left. There's no secular extremists. There's only religious extremists. 0:23:45.219 --> 0:23:48.540 The whole vocabulary is shaped by the left, so it's 0:23:48.580 --> 0:23:54.700 totally understandable that people think that way. I pray that 0:23:54.979 --> 0:24:00.580 my book helps burst that bubble. I really do. Let's 0:24:00.659 --> 0:24:06.739 go to Minneapolis and Betsy, Hello, Betsy. What's the temperature, Betsy? 0:24:07.580 --> 0:24:12.019 Oh boy, it's about forty oh really forty to not 0:24:12.100 --> 0:24:12.580 too bad. 0:24:12.739 --> 0:24:14.419 I thought it was scheduled to go to zero. 0:24:15.139 --> 0:24:18.419 Well, it's been bouncing around and there's no snow, and 0:24:18.500 --> 0:24:21.419 I'm worried about my plants. But yes, it's not too 0:24:21.500 --> 0:24:25.379 cold today. So you want to hear my story. 0:24:25.739 --> 0:24:27.659 That's the reason I took your call. I kind have 0:24:27.699 --> 0:24:29.219 figured out the temperature without you. 0:24:29.979 --> 0:24:34.020 Okay. Well, I'm a newly hired volunteer as a teacher's 0:24:34.100 --> 0:24:36.699 helper in a program for adult immigrants who want to 0:24:36.739 --> 0:24:40.899 learn to read English. And this program is at a 0:24:40.939 --> 0:24:43.419 local public high school, and last week we had a 0:24:43.580 --> 0:24:46.459 unit on Martin Luther King and the students read a 0:24:46.500 --> 0:24:49.899 short story which included an excerpt the most famous part 0:24:49.899 --> 0:24:52.899 of course from the Dream Speech, and then followed up 0:24:52.899 --> 0:24:56.260 with a discussion. And in the discussion, Martin Luther King 0:24:56.419 --> 0:25:01.260 was presented as a speaker as a watch as a speaker, 0:25:02.260 --> 0:25:05.420 and someone asked, well, what kind of speaker? And one 0:25:05.540 --> 0:25:08.500 point one student pointed out to the reading and said, oh, 0:25:08.540 --> 0:25:11.659 he was a doctor, And so I finally said, yes, 0:25:11.859 --> 0:25:14.980 he was a doctor, a doctor of divinity, a Christian minister. 0:25:15.619 --> 0:25:18.259 And the woman who asked the question, who is from China? 0:25:18.379 --> 0:25:22.019 She went, oh, Then no more comments were made and 0:25:22.100 --> 0:25:22.780 we moved on. 0:25:23.219 --> 0:25:25.499 Wow, this is a great story. I want to comment 0:25:25.540 --> 0:25:25.739 on it. 0:25:28.020 --> 0:25:31.340 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:25:36.859 --> 0:25:44.500 Now back to more of Dennis Preger's Timeless Wisdom. 0:25:44.619 --> 0:25:46.419 Hi, everybody, Dennis Preger here. 0:25:46.500 --> 0:25:48.619 I had made the point at the beginning of the 0:25:48.659 --> 0:25:52.980 show and honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, that 0:25:53.340 --> 0:25:59.500 he's always called doctor King. He was never called doctor King, well, 0:25:59.540 --> 0:26:01.980 not nearly as much, let's put it that way. Almost 0:26:02.020 --> 0:26:05.820 never he was called the Reverend, the Reverend King. During 0:26:05.859 --> 0:26:08.740 his time, he'd be shocked to be to know that 0:26:08.739 --> 0:26:12.540 people didn't even know he's a reverend today. You think 0:26:12.540 --> 0:26:15.940 he got his values from his doctorate or from his ordination. 0:26:17.100 --> 0:26:19.179 Why don't we give a TikTok here, because it's going 0:26:19.219 --> 0:26:21.300 to take people a lot of time think that through. 0:26:25.780 --> 0:26:27.580 You got it, that's correct. 0:26:27.619 --> 0:26:32.619 So Betsy teaches let's get this straight here, Betsy in Minnesota. 0:26:32.780 --> 0:26:35.779 You you teach immigrants? Is that it? 0:26:36.379 --> 0:26:39.500 Well, I'm not a teacher. I am a volunteer who 0:26:39.540 --> 0:26:40.300 assists the teacher. 0:26:40.379 --> 0:26:42.059 Okay, fine, so to do it. 0:26:42.139 --> 0:26:45.459 So they were teaching about Martin Luther king to to 0:26:45.619 --> 0:26:47.859 would be immigrants to the United States. 0:26:47.939 --> 0:26:51.899 To adult immigrants, adult immigrants exactly. Okay, through a local 0:26:51.899 --> 0:26:52.699 public high school. 0:26:52.699 --> 0:26:53.499 All right, that's fine. 0:26:55.340 --> 0:26:58.179 It's an added detail that was not critical, but I 0:26:58.300 --> 0:27:02.419 thank you for it. Now let me I just want 0:27:02.419 --> 0:27:06.899 to review here. He was discreted. My favorite part of 0:27:06.939 --> 0:27:11.179 your story was when one student asked what did he do? 0:27:12.100 --> 0:27:14.460 And it was that he was a speaker. 0:27:14.739 --> 0:27:17.260 Right, and that's what's written in here, and I'm trying 0:27:17.260 --> 0:27:17.819 to remember who. 0:27:19.100 --> 0:27:19.660 But he was. 0:27:19.619 --> 0:27:23.700 Presented as a yes, it's okay, what kind of speaker, 0:27:23.859 --> 0:27:28.460 a good speaker? And then this book, well she looked 0:27:28.459 --> 0:27:30.300 at the reading and she said, well it says here he. 0:27:30.300 --> 0:27:30.740 Was a doctor. 0:27:30.859 --> 0:27:33.100 There you go, that's it. They none of them knew that. 0:27:33.100 --> 0:27:33.859 That's exactly. 0:27:34.379 --> 0:27:38.379