Dennis Prager Show - The Left Believes in the Experts⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show Aired: 2020-04-23 Duration: 05:29 === Beliefs and Motives (05:08) === [00:00:00] How do you explain it? [00:00:07] I think that one difference is the acceptance of the fact that you always pay a price. [00:00:28] That there is no Answer to some riddles of life. [00:00:38] So you have to weigh, but it is so emotional to weigh against lives. [00:00:46] I think it's emotion. [00:00:50] It's not reason, it's emotion. [00:00:53] And it's not values. [00:00:54] Unless you truly believe, which people on the left might, that people on the right don't care about people's lives. [00:00:59] But it's a little silly because that means they don't care about their own parents' lives. [00:01:04] Since their parents are the ones most likely to die because of age or underlying conditions. [00:01:12] So, I have contempt for the destructive, nihilistic, chaos-inducing character. [00:01:22] Character of leftism. [00:01:24] But I don't believe leftists don't care if their parents die. [00:01:31] I do live in the world of reality. [00:01:34] But they don't. [00:01:37] When I read the attacks on conservatives who want to open up their states, it is almost always accompanied by the language of Stock market over lives. [00:01:59] One of the sick and evil parts of the left is the inability to believe that those who differ with you may have good motives. [00:02:07] I believe that. [00:02:09] I never assess the left's motives. [00:02:12] I've said people with good motives do some of the most evil in the history of the world. [00:02:19] Motives don't mean a damn thing. [00:02:22] Behavior is everything. [00:02:26] But they're all motive assessed. [00:02:29] Oh, you care about your stock portfolio. [00:02:35] But the people, did you see the people in Michigan and elsewhere who demonstrated to open up the state? [00:02:42] Do they look like billionaires with stock portfolios? [00:02:48] Right? [00:02:49] Or do they look like middle class and even lower middle class, income-wise? [00:02:56] Those are the people my heart breaks for, not for me. [00:02:59] By the way, has the government continued to pay government workers exactly as if there were no crisis? [00:03:11] Jesus. [00:03:11] Thank you. [00:03:13] That is vile. [00:03:16] That is just vile. [00:03:19] So there are no consequences, except their stocks, which will presumably rise again. [00:03:28] There is no consequence if you work for the government, only if you work in the private sector. [00:03:36] What a deal. [00:03:40] What a deal. [00:03:43] Anyway, what they're being paid with is gradually... [00:03:48] Worth less and less. [00:03:50] It's called money. [00:03:53] Print more. [00:03:54] Print a couple of trillion. [00:03:58] Right? [00:04:02] I think there's another difference. [00:04:06] We think much more rationally than the left. [00:04:09] And rationally, you realize that disease is part of life. [00:04:18] We have to conquer it. [00:04:20] We have to do everything we can, but we cannot destroy the world. [00:04:26] I mean, this is beyond belief that the world has gone into lockdown. [00:04:31] Do you understand? [00:04:32] I mean, if this were a movie, it would be called science fiction. [00:04:40] The moment Mo Dye did it in India, and I thought about the people who won't have access to food. [00:04:47] If Americans are, do you see the parking lots filled? [00:04:50] Gigantic parking lots, people coming for food? [00:04:53] In the United States of America? === Experts Contempt (00:34) === [00:04:56] That I never expected to see. [00:05:00] And there's another one. [00:05:03] The left believes in the experts. [00:05:06] And they're proud of it. [00:05:07] That's where they have contempt for us. [00:05:10] But experts shouldn't make policy. [00:05:14] What's our timing, gentlemen? [00:05:18] Oh, the music is on so early, it's confusing. [00:05:23] All right, fair enough. [00:05:25] The experts issue is a big one. [00:05:27] I've talked about it all of my life.