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July 23, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
03:18
The Left's Attack on the American Melting Pot
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It is amazing how things you take for granted, you can't.
Wouldn't you assume, or I'll bet many people did.
I didn't.
But I know I was an outlier in this regard.
You would assume that people really love freedom.
But they don't.
There are a lot of things they want more than freedom.
They want to be taken care of more than freedom.
A lot of people want power more than freedom.
And people want meaning more than freedom.
And if that which affords them meaning removes liberty, that's a trade they will make.
That is the leftist trade.
We give you meaning.
You give us liberty.
That's how it works.
I have said all of my broadcast career, 35 years, a long time, that the essence of everything I have to say can be boiled down to consequences of secularism.
Read my columns about secular conservatives don't understand, and they're great, they're great people, but they don't understand that God we trust is as much part of Americanism as liberty and e pluribus unum.
We have tried something in this country that has never been tried, ever.
And that is the uniting of people of every racial, ethnic, and national, and religious background into one identity without people losing whatever other identity they want to keep.
And maybe it cannot be done.
The left says, the left announced 30 years ago, multiculturalism.
I attacked it the day they mentioned it.
I said, the whole point of America is multi-ethnic, but unicultural.
Once it's multicultural, you have lost your country.
It doesn't mean everyone agrees with one another.
It's that the basic supposition, we are all Americans, that is sacrosanct.
And that's destroyed.
Then the centrifugal forces, I assume that the force is not centripetal, will just send us into various orbits.
Maybe this experiment cannot work.
That's what the left is basically announcing.
They mock the idea of a melting pot.
I learned the melting pot in a Jewish parochial school.
An all-day religious school.
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