Dennis Prager Show - Ami Horowitz Shows the Left is Unwilling to Compromise
Aired: 2021-01-14
Duration: 07:19


=== Why Unity Fails (07:18) ===

[00:00:00]  He makes these videos about humanity.
[00:00:03]  That's my way of putting it.
[00:00:05]  He asked a number of questions to his fellow citizens of Manhattan.
[00:00:13]  And the first one was, are you tolerant?
[00:00:18]  And then asked them what they thought of Republicans.
[00:00:22]  So the answers that I recall Or, of course, this woman who said she was the most empathetic person in the world, literally.
[00:00:31]  I mean, she meant it seriously.
[00:00:33]  Then said that Republicans, of all the creatures of the earth, the Republicans are the lowest, or something like that.
[00:00:41]  And then others, the young people you interviewed said they're monstrous.
[00:00:45]  I remember that, monstrous.
[00:00:47]  And, of course, selfish.
[00:00:49]  You know, Republicans give more charity and donate more time to volunteering.
[00:00:55]  Democrats do.
[00:00:57]  But they don't know that.
[00:00:59]  I'll tell you the only area in which the left is superior or ranks higher than the right is self-esteem.
[00:01:13]  They are the inventors of the self-esteem movement and they are the practitioners of the self-esteem movement.
[00:01:21]  What was the second question you asked?
[00:01:25]  Well, so once we've established their level of intolerance, we then moved on to compromise.
[00:01:33]  And because, look, now, what's the catchword that all the Democrats are using?
[00:01:38]  Unity.
[00:01:39]  We have to unify.
[00:01:41]  We have to get together.
[00:01:42]  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.
[00:01:53]  So I decided to put the test.
[00:01:55]  I did a little bit of an acid test.
[00:01:58]  I said, okay, should we compromise?
[00:01:59]  How important is that?
[00:02:00]  Of course, across the board, they talked about how important and vital it is to compromise, to move forward after these dark four years.
[00:02:07]  So then we said, okay, let's talk about all the major issues, and I started naming them.
[00:02:12]  How can we compromise on health care?
[00:02:15]  How can we compromise on climate change?
[00:02:17]  How can we compromise on income inequality?
[00:02:20]  And without...
[00:02:21]  Dennis, I know sometimes you say, well, how many of these people really respond in this way?
[00:02:25]  And usually it's always a majority, but usually it's 60%, 70%, 80%.
[00:02:30]  100% of people I spoke with could not or refused to find a single compromise.
[00:02:38]  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.
[00:02:46]  But one of the first times I put an exchange between me and another woman, Over a minute.
[00:02:52]  Because it was so elucidating.
[00:02:54]  It was so fascinating.
[00:02:55]  She brought up to me, she said, well, we can compromise on climate change.
[00:02:58]  And I said, well, how can we do that?
[00:03:00]  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.
[00:03:07]  No, we can't compromise on fracking, or ANWR, or CAFE standards, or anything.
[00:03:12]  At the end, I was so frustrated.
[00:03:14]  I kept asking, a compromise means you have to give something.
[00:03:18]  What are you willing to give?
[00:03:19]  And she couldn't come up with one.
[00:03:20]  And I finally said, I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word compromise.
[00:03:26]  It was so frustrating to hear them say, I want to compromise, and then simply couldn't find one area of compromise.
[00:03:34]  Not one.
[00:03:35]  And then there was a third question, which eludes me.
[00:03:38]  What was that?
[00:03:39]  Do you remember?
[00:03:40]  I think the third was going through all the different examples of possible...
[00:03:44]  Oh, no.
[00:03:45]  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?
[00:03:53]  And they all said, well, now that you say it this way, maybe there isn't compromise.
[00:03:57]  Maybe I'm not willing to compromise.
[00:03:59]  They all kind of admitted that, you know what?
[00:04:01]  And, of course, they will use grand terms, like one woman said, if it's good for our humanity.
[00:04:08]  And for everybody that we can't compromise, right?
[00:04:11]  Because the left always likes to use grand language because there's such a grand theology to help all mankind.
[00:04:17]  But they didn't have some self-realization of saying, well, okay, for issues that I care about, there's no compromise.
[00:04:25]  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.
[00:04:33]  And I can tell you where I learned it.
[00:04:35]  Whenever people...
[00:04:37]  Even my side.
[00:04:39]  Whenever people call for unity, there's a falseness at the heart of it.
[00:04:44]  Because it's unity on my terms.
[00:04:47]  And I learned it from, interestingly, religious people.
[00:04:52]  And I remember when I did my first radio show.
[00:04:56]  Religion on the line.
[00:04:58]  The first time I called in at 12 years old, religion on the line.
[00:05:02]  I love that.
[00:05:03]  That's right.
[00:05:04]  I forget that.
[00:05:05]  That's great.
[00:05:06]  You called my show.
[00:05:07]  Now I call you.
[00:05:08]  How do you like that?
[00:05:10]  That's really...
[00:05:11]  You've really risen.
[00:05:12]  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.
[00:05:30]  And periodically...
[00:05:32]  The priest or the minister would say, it's so important to have Christian unity.
[00:05:36]  So I found that very interesting.
[00:05:40]  So I would ask the priest, so for the sake of Christian unity, would you give up?
[00:05:48]  The Papacy.
[00:05:49]  I mean, the Protestants don't recognize the Bishop of Rome as having authority.
[00:05:53]  No, no, no.
[00:05:54]  I can't give up the Pope, obviously.
[00:05:57]  So I would ask the Protestants, are you prepared to accept the Pope for the sake of the unity of Christians?
[00:06:03]  And a whole bunch of other questions.
[00:06:06]  Are you going to accept the Catholic sacraments?
[00:06:10]  And I go, well, can't do that.
[00:06:12]  So then the same with the Jews.
[00:06:14]  Oh, we want Jewish unity.
[00:06:16]  So I would ask the Orthodox rabbi, okay, so are you prepared to accept the intermarriages of reform rabbis?
[00:06:26]  Well, can't do that.
[00:06:27]  And then, same with the reform.
[00:06:30]  So everybody, and I liked all these people.
[00:06:34]  I had no issue with them.
[00:06:36]  So people I like.
[00:06:38]  Even their calls for unity are false.
[00:06:41]  We all want unity on our terms.
[00:06:44]  I want unity in America.
[00:06:45]  I want everybody to believe in liberty, e pluribus unum, and in God we trust.
[00:06:50]  So that's, sorry for the long soliloquy here, but that's what your video promised me.
[00:06:56]  It's exactly right.
[00:06:57]  You're exactly right.
[00:06:58]  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.

=== No Connection whatsoever (00:15) ===

[00:07:08]  It's so true.
[00:07:09]  They have no connection whatsoever to the right.
[00:07:13]  They don't have friends who are on the right.
[00:07:15]  They don't look at the right-wing media or even right-of-center media.
[00:07:18]  That's right.