Dennis Prager Show - Conservatives Have to Hide Their Beliefs from the Public
Aired: 2021-01-23
Duration: 06:50


=== People Approaching in Airports (06:01) ===

[00:00:00]  The number of people in this country who have to hide what they believe is in the many tens of millions.
[00:00:11]  I try not to politicize the happiness hour, but politics impinges terribly, unfortunately.
[00:00:22]  Over the course of the last few years, during the time when life was normal and you could...
[00:00:29]  Travel normally.
[00:00:31]  And I had lectures just about every week and flew just about every week.
[00:00:36]  People would come over to me in airports.
[00:00:39]  There has not been a time in decades that I have not been approached at an airport by at least one person.
[00:00:47]  And in the last few years, something very ominous has taken place.
[00:00:54]  People will look around before they say anything to me.
[00:00:58]  And then, in a hushed voice, tell me that they are conservative or supported the president at the time, President Trump.
[00:01:09]  That Americans need to look around before they tell you their political preference is new in American history.
[00:01:18]  So that means, getting back to my theme, that a lot of you hide who you are much of your life.
[00:01:27]  Like at work.
[00:01:31]  That is not a happiness-inducing situation, is it?
[00:01:38]  So, in light of that, you need to find Kindred Spirits.
[00:01:46]  I told you, I think, I had this dream of starting KindredSpirits.com Anyway, I've told you all of my life with regard to the Happiness Hour that We should date for friends like we dated for a spouse.
[00:02:07]  But I think that people are self-conscious about doing so.
[00:02:13]  What's the matter?
[00:02:13]  You can't find a friend?
[00:02:14]  You have to go on the internet?
[00:02:17]  I don't know why not.
[00:02:20]  What's the difference where you find a friend?
[00:02:22]  The trick is to find them.
[00:02:26]  And to speak with them and to open up to them.
[00:02:29]  It's a health benefit, apparently.
[00:02:34]  Having friends is the equivalent of adding to life what not smoking cigarettes adds.
[00:02:42]  That's what I think I read a number of times.
[00:02:47]  Having a religious community or a religion, active in a religion, adds years to your life.
[00:02:57]  Apparently having a dog does.
[00:03:01]  I have all three.
[00:03:03]  I should live forever.
[00:03:06]  I do smoke cigars.
[00:03:08]  That, I believe, does add to my life because of the relaxation and the risk.
[00:03:17]  The risk versus relaxation ratio is pretty high in the direction of relaxation.
[00:03:28]  The happiness hour during this period of difficulty, to understate the case, is asking what you have worked out.
[00:03:39]  And have you taken my advice?
[00:03:40]  That's a call I'd really love to take.
[00:03:42]  Yeah, you know what?
[00:03:43]  I took your advice, Dennis.
[00:03:44]  Looked for kindred spirits and people I could actually open up to.
[00:03:53]  1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776 is the number to reach me.
[00:04:05]  It is a challenging time.
[00:04:08]  You know, this is the way I look at it.
[00:04:13]  In the micro, in our personal lives, for most people, there are real challenges to happiness.
[00:04:20]  A child who is difficult A parent who is difficult, a troubled marriage, personal finances.
[00:04:32]  I mean, there are so many arenas, somebody's health in my life, including perhaps your own.
[00:04:40]  But we have, as Americans, generally been able to isolate the pain inducers, the happiness reducers.
[00:04:53]  Or challengers, if it might be a better word, to the micro, to those personal issues.
[00:05:02]  Yeah, well, is it a challenge to my happiness?
[00:05:05]  Or I'm not so happy these days because, and then you fill in, my child, my parent, my spouse, my marriage, my health, my income.
[00:05:17]  But it's my, it's my, it's been for most...
[00:05:22]  We have taken for granted that the country, the society, will not be a source of pain and misery.

=== An Amazing First (01:03) ===

[00:05:50]  The American way of looking at things was, let the state leave you alone so that you can have your own problems.
[00:06:05]  That's basically the view.
[00:06:08]  Nobody guarantees happiness.
[00:06:12]  But that is no longer the case.
[00:06:16]  I certainly, speaking for myself, 98.43% of my unhappiness to the extent that I have it, and I do, and I combat it, and I act cheerful, is induced by what's happening in my society.
[00:06:35]  It's an amazing thing.
[00:06:36]  This is a first for most Americans that the state is impinging directly on their Happiness level.