Jan. 25, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
06:46
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| I have a riddle, which I've told you a number of times. | |
| I made it up. | |
| What do you call a religious person who says the world is coming to an end? | |
| A crackpot. | |
| What do you call a secular person who says the world is coming to an end? | |
| An environmentalist. | |
| As the pandemic has worn on, the desire to get back to normal has increased, and I worry, says this man. | |
| I'm reading from that the hope for radical positive change has subsided. | |
| But we must not let it dissipate. | |
| We can't afford to because we won't see normal again in our lifetime. | |
| Our parents and grandparents burned normal up in their American-built cars with their American lifestyles, their American refrigerators, and American dreams. | |
| Ah, yes. | |
| How disgusting. | |
| Middle-class life is the nightmare of the left. | |
| People driving to work, having a picket fence around their own home instead of an apartment in downtown urban areas, having two refrigerators perhaps, two-car garage, going to a Rotary Club meeting. | |
| This actually has a viscerally negative impact. | |
| On a leftist. | |
| That is a nightmare. | |
| It is so unexciting. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| It's not exciting. | |
| Saving the world is exciting. | |
| Capitalist normal. | |
| Oh my god, this is the worst. | |
| Their American lifestyles, their American refrigerators, and American dreams. | |
| And now China and India are doing it too. | |
| Because capitalism is global. | |
| And we sold it wherever we could. | |
| More than three quarters, okay, then the CO2 emissions figures. | |
| That's right. | |
| No more normal, folks. | |
| God, I feel bad for kids today. | |
| Nothing's normal. | |
| Men give birth. | |
| That's normal. | |
| Right? | |
| Drag Queen Study Hour. | |
| That's normal. | |
| America was founded in 1619, not 1776. That's normal. | |
| Refrigerators and cars. | |
| That's this American dream crap. | |
| But vote for us! | |
| Vote for us. | |
| We will upend life because, as you know, capitalism is terrible. | |
| And since you're so ignorant because you went to an American school, public or private, you have no idea what socialism and communism have wrought in this world. | |
| You have no idea. | |
| What percentage of Harvard juniors can identify Pol Pot? | |
| And you say, oh, come on, give me a Pol Pot. | |
| Everybody knew who Pol Pot was when he murdered a quarter of his own people in the 70s. | |
| It's pretty big news. | |
| I'm not sure that many could identify Stalin. | |
| They might be able to say a Russian leader. | |
| How many people did Mao kill? | |
| He wouldn't have a clue. | |
| Didn't know he killed anybody. | |
| Reading a book on the Vietnam War, a gigantic book that came out, Max Hastings, who seems very fair because he acknowledges the evils of communism in Vietnam. | |
| Ho Chi Minh got to power the same way Mao did through terrorizing the peasantry. | |
| You didn't cooperate with the local communists. | |
| They would take a bunch of people and they would bury them alive. | |
| To terrorize the others to support the communists. | |
| Anybody know about that? | |
| I knew about that. | |
| Do you know what I said, by the way? | |
| I said on my radio show very early on, I knew more about North Vietnam than the average South Vietnamese. | |
| And it turns out, it's exactly what he writes in this book. | |
| He's a British historian who thinks the war, to the best of my knowledge, was a mistake. | |
| He has no axe to grind except, to the best of my knowledge, tell the story as it happened. | |
| They were shocked at what the communists did when they got to South Vietnam. | |
| Look, there are a lot of South Koreans who want to make peace with North Korea. | |
| Because they probably got as factually challenged an education about communism in South Korean schools as they do in American schools, which is mind-blowing. | |
| Just mind-blowing. | |
| Why, there are an annual Thank You America parades in Seoul. | |
| One of the wealthiest countries in the world now, South Korea. | |
| You're probably using a Korean phone, and you may well be driving a Korean car. | |
| Using a Korean screen to watch movies? | |
| This is all 100% because of American deaths. | |
| 37,000 died to keep these people free. | |
| And then you've got anti-American demonstrations. | |
| Everything I see in the world vindicates the Judeo-Christian worldview. | |
| Human nature is pretty rotten. | |
| It can be beautiful. | |
| That's the thing. | |
| There are beautiful people around. | |
| But human nature? | |
| It's really... | |
| I have a lot of questions for God. | |
| And I mean this quite sincerely. | |
| Aside from why did he invent the mosquito? | |
| I admit that's still number one. | |
| Number two, why'd you make human nature so flawed? | |
| How do you bury people alive and then have dinner? |
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