Dennis Prager Show - What Dennis Likes About Amy Coney Barrett...
Aired: 2020-10-14
Duration: 05:02


=== Why College Became a False God (04:09) ===

[00:00:02]  It's fascinating, actually, to watch.
[00:00:05]  Most of the Democratic senators, as pointed out by Senator Cruz, were not even in the room when the last questioning was done.
[00:00:13]  done, I think it was Senator Whitehouse, unless she has Tourette's Syndrome and starts mumbling obscenities, obscenities, it's very hard to imagine why she would not be confirmed.
[00:00:40]  I'll tell you one of the things I like about her is that she didn't go to Yale or Harvard.
[00:00:47]  This country has a bunch of false gods that have substituted for The God who created the heavens and the earth.
[00:01:00]  College is a god.
[00:01:02]  Degrees are gods.
[00:01:05]  Prestigious colleges are gods.
[00:01:07]  Why would parents bribe to get their child into UCLA or USC? Forget the act of the bribery itself.
[00:01:25]  The belief that your child must go to one of these places, I don't believe it is only, oh, it'll be so good for my child.
[00:01:38]  Many parents feel that their parenthood is judged by the prestige level of the college that their child attends.
[00:01:49]  I can't think of an emptier.
[00:01:52]  Way to assess whether you were a good parent.
[00:01:55]  You could have produced a despicable human being who got into Yale.
[00:01:59]  You could have produced a remarkably wonderful kid who didn't even go to college.
[00:02:08]  But it's the report card on your parenting.
[00:02:13]  That's one of the reasons.
[00:02:17]  It's also interesting that she would be, I believe, is it correct, the sixth Catholic?
[00:02:22]  Out of nine judges?
[00:02:24]  I think that's the case.
[00:02:27]  It's pointed out on occasion.
[00:02:31]  It's an interesting question as to, is it just a coincidence?
[00:02:36]  Or is there a reason?
[00:02:40]  It may well be a coincidence.
[00:02:45]  But it's clearly a credit to the Catholic intellectual tradition.
[00:02:52]  If you do have six Catholics out of the nine, I personally couldn't care less.
[00:02:58]  It is of no interest to me in that regard because I want people with the judicial philosophy that their task is not to make law.
[00:03:12]  Senator Cruz, who was turning out to be truly a luminous senator, He has found his niche.
[00:03:24]  He will not be president of the United States.
[00:03:27]  I think he recognizes that.
[00:03:30]  And so he has decided to be as good a senator as he can, which is very important.
[00:03:38]  And he made the point that take school choice.
[00:03:44]  He said, I am for school choice.
[00:03:47]  He said that's the civil rights issue of this century.
[00:03:56]  And he said, "As much as I might like to see it ruled accordingly in the Supreme Court, that's not the venue." The arena where school choice should be enacted is not the Supreme Court.

=== Disastrous Democratic Governance (00:49) ===

[00:04:13]  It is with us in the Senate, in Congress, that one black would vote for the Democrats given...
[00:04:24]  The disastrous governing of where blacks tend to live, all by Democrats for a half century, and the obscene opposition to school choice.
[00:04:39]  Oh, blacks don't get a chance.
[00:04:41]  They don't go to good schools.
[00:04:42]  That is the reason for the inferior rates of graduation and academic achievement among many blacks.
[00:04:51]  Yes, so here's a remedy.
[00:04:54]  Let them choose the school they want to go to.
[00:04:57]  Both are against that.
[00:04:59]  Why are you against that?
[00:05:00]  Because the teachers' unions are against that.