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Why Unity Fails
00:07:18
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| He makes these videos about humanity. | |
| That's my way of putting it. | |
| He asked a number of questions to his fellow citizens of Manhattan. | |
| And the first one was, are you tolerant? | |
| And then asked them what they thought of Republicans. | |
| So the answers that I recall Or, of course, this woman who said she was the most empathetic person in the world, literally. | |
| I mean, she meant it seriously. | |
| Then said that Republicans, of all the creatures of the earth, the Republicans are the lowest, or something like that. | |
| And then others, the young people you interviewed said they're monstrous. | |
| I remember that, monstrous. | |
| And, of course, selfish. | |
| You know, Republicans give more charity and donate more time to volunteering. | |
| Democrats do. | |
| But they don't know that. | |
| I'll tell you the only area in which the left is superior or ranks higher than the right is self-esteem. | |
| They are the inventors of the self-esteem movement and they are the practitioners of the self-esteem movement. | |
| What was the second question you asked? | |
| Well, so once we've established their level of intolerance, we then moved on to compromise. | |
| And because, look, now, what's the catchword that all the Democrats are using? | |
| Unity. | |
| We have to unify. | |
| We have to get together. | |
| Now, you and I both know, certainly suspected, but we really know, when they say unify, they really mean unify on their issues and their perspectives and their way of doing things. | |
| So I decided to put the test. | |
| I did a little bit of an acid test. | |
| I said, okay, should we compromise? | |
| How important is that? | |
| Of course, across the board, they talked about how important and vital it is to compromise, to move forward after these dark four years. | |
| So then we said, okay, let's talk about all the major issues, and I started naming them. | |
| How can we compromise on health care? | |
| How can we compromise on climate change? | |
| How can we compromise on income inequality? | |
| And without... | |
| Dennis, I know sometimes you say, well, how many of these people really respond in this way? | |
| And usually it's always a majority, but usually it's 60%, 70%, 80%. | |
| 100% of people I spoke with could not or refused to find a single compromise. | |
| In fact, it's rare that I put an exchange with someone longer than 20, 30 seconds, because anything longer than that, it just gets boring. | |
| But one of the first times I put an exchange between me and another woman, Over a minute. | |
| Because it was so elucidating. | |
| It was so fascinating. | |
| She brought up to me, she said, well, we can compromise on climate change. | |
| And I said, well, how can we do that? | |
| And she couldn't come up with a single, and every time I said, well, can we, I offered common sense compromise, she would say, no, no, no, we can't compromise that. | |
| No, we can't compromise on fracking, or ANWR, or CAFE standards, or anything. | |
| At the end, I was so frustrated. | |
| I kept asking, a compromise means you have to give something. | |
| What are you willing to give? | |
| And she couldn't come up with one. | |
| And I finally said, I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word compromise. | |
| It was so frustrating to hear them say, I want to compromise, and then simply couldn't find one area of compromise. | |
| Not one. | |
| And then there was a third question, which eludes me. | |
| What was that? | |
| Do you remember? | |
| I think the third was going through all the different examples of possible... | |
| Oh, no. | |
| At the end, I asked them, well, now that we've gone through this exercise, right, in real time, what do you think of compromise? | |
| And they all said, well, now that you say it this way, maybe there isn't compromise. | |
| Maybe I'm not willing to compromise. | |
| They all kind of admitted that, you know what? | |
| And, of course, they will use grand terms, like one woman said, if it's good for our humanity. | |
| And for everybody that we can't compromise, right? | |
| Because the left always likes to use grand language because there's such a grand theology to help all mankind. | |
| But they didn't have some self-realization of saying, well, okay, for issues that I care about, there's no compromise. | |
| I have said, and I'm very honored you're an avid listener, so you know that I've said this really as long as I've broadcast. | |
| And I can tell you where I learned it. | |
| Whenever people... | |
| Even my side. | |
| Whenever people call for unity, there's a falseness at the heart of it. | |
| Because it's unity on my terms. | |
| And I learned it from, interestingly, religious people. | |
| And I remember when I did my first radio show. | |
| Religion on the line. | |
| The first time I called in at 12 years old, religion on the line. | |
| I love that. | |
| That's right. | |
| I forget that. | |
| That's great. | |
| You called my show. | |
| Now I call you. | |
| How do you like that? | |
| That's really... | |
| You've really risen. | |
| So, yes, he heard me when he was 12. I was 14. Anyway, I remember when Catholic priests and Protestant ministers on the show, because it was clergy and there was a rabbi as well each week, did this for 10 years, and loved it. | |
| And periodically... | |
| The priest or the minister would say, it's so important to have Christian unity. | |
| So I found that very interesting. | |
| So I would ask the priest, so for the sake of Christian unity, would you give up? | |
| The Papacy. | |
| I mean, the Protestants don't recognize the Bishop of Rome as having authority. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| I can't give up the Pope, obviously. | |
| So I would ask the Protestants, are you prepared to accept the Pope for the sake of the unity of Christians? | |
| And a whole bunch of other questions. | |
| Are you going to accept the Catholic sacraments? | |
| And I go, well, can't do that. | |
| So then the same with the Jews. | |
| Oh, we want Jewish unity. | |
| So I would ask the Orthodox rabbi, okay, so are you prepared to accept the intermarriages of reform rabbis? | |
| Well, can't do that. | |
| And then, same with the reform. | |
| So everybody, and I liked all these people. | |
| I had no issue with them. | |
| So people I like. | |
| Even their calls for unity are false. | |
| We all want unity on our terms. | |
| I want unity in America. | |
| I want everybody to believe in liberty, e pluribus unum, and in God we trust. | |
| So that's, sorry for the long soliloquy here, but that's what your video promised me. | |
| It's exactly right. | |
| You're exactly right. | |
| And look, it is not, it is, part of the problem, for the left anyway, when it comes to unity, is they don't get it because Again, you've said this a million times. | |
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No Connection whatsoever
00:00:15
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| It's so true. | |
| They have no connection whatsoever to the right. | |
| They don't have friends who are on the right. | |
| They don't look at the right-wing media or even right-of-center media. | |
| That's right. | |