Dennis Prager Show - Have You Lost Friends Over Politics? ⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-06-06
Duration: 04:10


=== Human Nature's Pathetic Reality (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  I admit it, my friends.
[00:00:01]  I admit it.
[00:00:02]  If I am not real with you about the problem of happiness, remember, my book on happiness is happiness is a serious problem.
[00:00:11]  So I have always understood that it's a serious problem, and I've always told you, if nothing's horrific, life is terrific.
[00:00:21]  You know, don't take the joy of American life for granted.
[00:00:27]  It's not normal.
[00:00:30]  The human condition is pathetic.
[00:00:33]  Human nature is unimpressive.
[00:00:37]  There are many impressive individuals, but human nature is not impressive.
[00:00:44]  So I am as prepared for things like this as anybody is because I have understood what an aberration America and its freedom and its affluence.
[00:01:00]  Have been.
[00:01:03]  So to see people within the society destroy it, want to destroy it, they call it fundamentally transform.
[00:01:14]  It's the same thing.
[00:01:16]  When you fundamentally transform something, you have destroyed it.
[00:01:19]  You have made something new.
[00:01:21]  Maybe you believe you'll make something better.
[00:01:23]  I don't.
[00:01:24]  I don't believe that something better, something improved, yes.
[00:01:30]  Improvement is always possible.
[00:01:33]  But to destroy what has existed.
[00:01:37]  This is an amazing place that we have created in this country.
[00:01:43]  And I am convinced that a lot of you are anxiety-aridden at this time.
[00:01:53]  I mean, this is more depressing in some ways than the lockdown.
[00:02:00]  Because the lockdown ends.
[00:02:05]  Now what will happen after it ends to so many people who have lost their businesses and their jobs?
[00:02:10]  That's another question.
[00:02:12]  And I have opposed that too, except for the first week or so.
[00:02:18]  So I want to talk to you about that and what to do to deal with it.

=== Fighting Back Friends (01:43) ===

[00:02:27]  How do you deal with Watching your society be hurt, even perhaps destroyed, from within.
[00:02:39]  Since the Civil War, this is a first.
[00:02:44]  The enemies of America have overwhelmingly been outsiders.
[00:02:52]  People who want to destroy the country have been from outside.
[00:02:59]  Well, among other things what you need to do, I know what I resolve to do, my resolution is to fight back.
[00:03:12]  And you can too.
[00:03:14]  You can post things on social media sites.
[00:03:19]  If you lose friends as a result, then what kind of friend was that person to begin with?
[00:03:28]  If differing with somebody renders your friendship impossible, well, it's a very sad thing.
[00:03:38]  I've never lost a friend over ideology.
[00:03:42]  I've almost never lost a friend.
[00:03:45]  But it's a very sad thing if it happens.
[00:03:51]  And believe me, others have it worse.
[00:03:53]  They have it with their spouse.
[00:03:56]  And that's very painful to think about, to having such differences.
[00:04:03]  So one of the things that you just have to resolve is you have to fight for this country and for its values.