Dennis Prager Show - The Road to Socialism is as Smooth as Butter⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-04-24
Duration: 09:52


=== People's Peril (09:51) ===

[00:00:00]  The hospitals are not being overwhelmed.
[00:00:02]  The suicide lines are being overwhelmed.
[00:00:07]  I'm not the only voice that has said that we have gone way too far in isolation.
[00:00:17]  Governor Cuomo, big advocate of it.
[00:00:21]  Of course, he's the governor of the state that has the most because of New York City.
[00:00:26]  Why people in upstate New York Can't leave their homes except to take a walk and are not allowed to make an income as a result because New York City is cursed with this virus is a question that history will ask and will not have a favorable judgment of Governor Cuomo's and the rest, not just Governor Cuomo.
[00:00:55]  We have lived to see The biggest panic in American history.
[00:01:00]  There is nothing close.
[00:01:03]  I have warned against hysteria my whole life, as you all know.
[00:01:07]  And now the price is being paid.
[00:01:14]  50,000 Americans, it is said, have died from this disease in any given flu year.
[00:01:23]  Now it's obviously more lethal.
[00:01:26]  More quickly than the regular flu.
[00:01:28]  But I do want to remind you, as I do almost every day, that two years ago, between 60,000 and 80,000 Americans died of the regular flu and nobody talked about it.
[00:01:41]  Will they talk about it next year?
[00:01:43]  It'll be interesting.
[00:01:45]  One country in the world withstood the pressure of the world.
[00:01:49]  Sweden.
[00:01:51]  They had more deaths.
[00:01:53]  Than Norway and Denmark, the countries they're compared to.
[00:01:58]  And they weighed, which is what mature people are supposed to do, but maturity is at a premium in our time.
[00:02:06]  You weigh cost and what you gain.
[00:02:13]  People are getting checks from the government with money that is increasingly worthless.
[00:02:23]  Any reduction in the benefits that the government pays out to people.
[00:02:28]  It's not the government's job as it happens, but the road to socialism is as smooth as butter.
[00:02:38]  People want to be taken care of more than they want liberty.
[00:02:44]  There's a woman in San Diego.
[00:02:46]  I'd like to get her on the show.
[00:02:48]  Living Martyr.
[00:02:52]  She's been leading the protests, and she's been threatened with arrest.
[00:03:00]  The amount of liberties deprived Americans and the ease with which Americans have accepted it is scarier to me than the virus.
[00:03:12]  I'm an old-fashioned guy.
[00:03:13]  I'm a liberty lover.
[00:03:17]  Liberty is a great value.
[00:03:21]  And it's not treasured by the human species.
[00:03:24]  It isn't.
[00:03:25]  I've said that, as you know.
[00:03:27]  Everything, it's very sad.
[00:03:29]  Everything I've said, I believe, has come to be accurate.
[00:03:36]  The last thing I give a hoot about is boasting to you.
[00:03:39]  I don't boast.
[00:03:41]  I don't self-denigrate.
[00:03:43]  I'm very realistic about me and about life.
[00:03:48]  But when I've said all along, people don't yearn to be free, they yearn to be taken care of.
[00:03:55]  You're living it now.
[00:03:57]  It's not the land of the free and the home of the brave.
[00:04:00]  You know I dropped that a decade ago from the National Anthem.
[00:04:07]  My mother used to say to my father, don't let him out, he has a cold.
[00:04:12]  Or he'll get a cold.
[00:04:14]  And my father would say, what are you going to do, keep him in a china closet?
[00:04:18]  And it's funny because when my father first said it for the first few years, I thought, does that mean a closet made in China?
[00:04:25]  I had no idea what it meant, but I did understand that there are risks in life.
[00:04:32]  My father fought in World War II. I wonder, there are very few left of the veterans of World War II, but I wonder what they think about the inability of Americans to confront risk.
[00:04:49]  To be paralyzed, to bring down a way of life because of an infinitesimally small risk.
[00:04:58]  Do you understand that?
[00:05:02]  It's unbelievable.
[00:05:03]  People are afraid for their children.
[00:05:05]  Children overwhelmingly don't get the coronavirus.
[00:05:09]  It is exceedingly rare.
[00:05:11]  It is almost unheard of.
[00:05:17]  Yet we close the schools.
[00:05:21]  The havoc that has brought into people's lives.
[00:05:24]  But Governor Cuomo was asked about this, and he has his famous answer.
[00:05:28]  Hey, what's worse than death?
[00:05:31]  There you go.
[00:05:33]  There were no Governor Cuomos in 1957, when the United States suffered 116,000 deaths from the flu that year.
[00:05:44]  This is a new generation.
[00:05:46]  It's a frightened generation.
[00:05:49]  It's frightened because it takes health and safety and everything for granted.
[00:05:57]  That's why.
[00:05:59]  People are protected from the vicissitudes of life.
[00:06:04]  This is Governor Cuomo at a news conference today.
[00:06:09]  Not today.
[00:06:10]  Two days ago.
[00:06:12]  These are regular people who are not getting a paycheck.
[00:06:17]  Some of them are not getting their unemployment check.
[00:06:20]  And they're saying that they don't have time to wait for all of this testing and they need to get back to work in order to feed their families.
[00:06:28]  Their savings is running out.
[00:06:30]  They don't have another week.
[00:06:32]  They're not getting answers.
[00:06:34]  So, their point is...
[00:06:36]  They'll get an answer now.
[00:06:37]  ...the cure can't be worse than the illness itself.
[00:06:40]  What is your response to them?
[00:06:41]  The illness is death.
[00:06:43]  That's the answer.
[00:06:44]  What is worse than death?
[00:06:46]  Well, what if somebody commits suicide because they can't pay their bills?
[00:06:49]  Yeah, but the illness is maybe my death as opposed to your death.
[00:06:53]  Oh, so he's worried about himself.
[00:06:56]  You said they said...
[00:06:57]  Wait, wait, wait.
[00:06:59]  Leave it.
[00:07:00]  Leave it for a moment.
[00:07:00]  This is an amazing thing.
[00:07:03]  It's clear, though.
[00:07:05]  I love the clarity.
[00:07:06]  Look, he said, if everything he's done, if the ruined lives are worth it, he said it.
[00:07:11]  If I save one life, right?
[00:07:14]  Remember that?
[00:07:15]  That's the thing I played over and over from Governor Cuomo.
[00:07:18]  If I just save one life, and it's my death, too bad she didn't ask, wow, well, what about a billion around the world, Governor?
[00:07:29]  You know how many deaths from starvation the UN predicts?
[00:07:33]  Tens of millions death because of this.
[00:07:37]  You who want a lockdown are killing more people than the virus.
[00:07:41]  Is that clear, ladies and gentlemen?
[00:07:43]  That's a fact.
[00:07:44]  That is not an opinion.
[00:07:45]  It is a fact.
[00:07:48]  The shutdown has killed more people than the virus.
[00:07:53]  You who think you love life, you are self-deluded.
[00:07:59]  You think you're heroes.
[00:08:03]  Because that's the way people think.
[00:08:05]  I don't think I'm a hero.
[00:08:06]  I think I'm being real.
[00:08:08]  You don't give a damn about the tens of millions outside of America.
[00:08:12]  You, you know, we are people of the world.
[00:08:15]  We don't believe in American nationalism.
[00:08:17]  But your entire frame of reference is America.
[00:08:23]  So I could shatter your life because I, Governor Cuomo, continue to get my income.
[00:08:27]  I believe everybody who advocates that people not get an income, not get an income!
[00:08:32]  Why is that not logical?
[00:08:37]  I will continue to make my money, you can't make your money, and I'm a good man.
[00:08:43]  Get it?
[00:08:44]  Because I don't want to get sick.
[00:08:49]  And this is considered noble.
[00:08:51]  This is considered compassionate.
[00:08:56]  Why would my dad have said to Governor Cuomo?
[00:08:59]  Probably he would have asked my mother to pass him a vomit bag.
[00:09:05]  That's what I think.
[00:09:09]  God.
[00:09:10]  My father's ships, two years, two, three years in the Navy, targets of kamikaze planes.
[00:09:20]  I don't think this would have...
[00:09:23]  He would have supported...
[00:09:26]  Yeah, you don't make a living.
[00:09:28]  That's right.
[00:09:31]  That's okay with me because, hey, the other is death.
[00:09:36]  You know how few people have died?
[00:09:43]  The other is death.
[00:09:45]  There you go.
[00:09:47]  That answers the issue.
[00:09:49]  Let him visit the people who...