Dennis Prager Show - Democrats: "Vote for Us And We'll Upend Capitalism!"
Aired: 2021-01-25
Duration: 06:46


=== Desire for Normal Dissipating (06:34) ===

[00:00:00]  I have a riddle, which I've told you a number of times.
[00:00:02]  I made it up.
[00:00:04]  What do you call a religious person who says the world is coming to an end?
[00:00:09]  A crackpot.
[00:00:11]  What do you call a secular person who says the world is coming to an end?
[00:00:16]  An environmentalist.
[00:00:21]  As the pandemic has worn on, the desire to get back to normal has increased, and I worry, says this man.
[00:00:31]  I'm reading from that the hope for radical positive change has subsided.
[00:00:37]  But we must not let it dissipate.
[00:00:39]  We can't afford to because we won't see normal again in our lifetime.
[00:00:44]  Our parents and grandparents burned normal up in their American-built cars with their American lifestyles, their American refrigerators, and American dreams.
[00:00:56]  Ah, yes.
[00:00:58]  How disgusting.
[00:00:59]  Middle-class life is the nightmare of the left.
[00:01:06]  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.
[00:01:24]  This actually has a viscerally negative impact.
[00:01:29]  On a leftist.
[00:01:30]  That is a nightmare.
[00:01:32]  It is so unexciting.
[00:01:34]  That's the problem.
[00:01:35]  It's not exciting.
[00:01:37]  Saving the world is exciting.
[00:01:41]  Capitalist normal.
[00:01:42]  Oh my god, this is the worst.
[00:01:46]  Their American lifestyles, their American refrigerators, and American dreams.
[00:01:53]  And now China and India are doing it too.
[00:01:56]  Because capitalism is global.
[00:01:59]  And we sold it wherever we could.
[00:02:01]  More than three quarters, okay, then the CO2 emissions figures.
[00:02:07]  That's right.
[00:02:10]  No more normal, folks.
[00:02:12]  God, I feel bad for kids today.
[00:02:17]  Nothing's normal.
[00:02:18]  Men give birth.
[00:02:21]  That's normal.
[00:02:24]  Right?
[00:02:26]  Drag Queen Study Hour.
[00:02:28]  That's normal.
[00:02:29]  America was founded in 1619, not 1776. That's normal.
[00:02:36]  Refrigerators and cars.
[00:02:39]  That's this American dream crap.
[00:02:46]  But vote for us!
[00:02:48]  Vote for us.
[00:02:48]  We will upend life because, as you know, capitalism is terrible.
[00:02:52]  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.
[00:03:02]  You have no idea.
[00:03:05]  What percentage of Harvard juniors can identify Pol Pot?
[00:03:12]  And you say, oh, come on, give me a Pol Pot.
[00:03:17]  Everybody knew who Pol Pot was when he murdered a quarter of his own people in the 70s.
[00:03:27]  It's pretty big news.
[00:03:30]  I'm not sure that many could identify Stalin.
[00:03:35]  They might be able to say a Russian leader.
[00:03:39]  How many people did Mao kill?
[00:03:42]  He wouldn't have a clue.
[00:03:43]  Didn't know he killed anybody.
[00:03:48]  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.
[00:04:04]  Ho Chi Minh got to power the same way Mao did through terrorizing the peasantry.
[00:04:10]  You didn't cooperate with the local communists.
[00:04:14]  They would take a bunch of people and they would bury them alive.
[00:04:19]  To terrorize the others to support the communists.
[00:04:26]  Anybody know about that?
[00:04:28]  I knew about that.
[00:04:29]  Do you know what I said, by the way?
[00:04:31]  I said on my radio show very early on, I knew more about North Vietnam than the average South Vietnamese.
[00:04:43]  And it turns out, it's exactly what he writes in this book.
[00:04:48]  He's a British historian who thinks the war, to the best of my knowledge, was a mistake.
[00:04:56]  He has no axe to grind except, to the best of my knowledge, tell the story as it happened.
[00:05:05]  They were shocked at what the communists did when they got to South Vietnam.
[00:05:11]  Look, there are a lot of South Koreans who want to make peace with North Korea.
[00:05:18]  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.
[00:05:30]  Just mind-blowing.
[00:05:31]  Why, there are an annual Thank You America parades in Seoul.
[00:05:38]  One of the wealthiest countries in the world now, South Korea.
[00:05:41]  You're probably using a Korean phone, and you may well be driving a Korean car.
[00:05:48]  Using a Korean screen to watch movies?
[00:05:52]  This is all 100% because of American deaths.
[00:05:57]  37,000 died to keep these people free.
[00:06:03]  And then you've got anti-American demonstrations.
[00:06:08]  Everything I see in the world vindicates the Judeo-Christian worldview.
[00:06:13]  Human nature is pretty rotten.
[00:06:15]  It can be beautiful.
[00:06:17]  That's the thing.
[00:06:18]  There are beautiful people around.

=== Why Did God Invent Mosquitoes? (00:26) ===

[00:06:21]  But human nature?
[00:06:25]  It's really...
[00:06:27]  I have a lot of questions for God.
[00:06:29]  And I mean this quite sincerely.
[00:06:32]  Aside from why did he invent the mosquito?
[00:06:34]  I admit that's still number one.
[00:06:37]  Number two, why'd you make human nature so flawed?
[00:06:42]  How do you bury people alive and then have dinner?