Jan. 26, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
05:15
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| To just think gloom. | |
| And I don't want to think just gloom. | |
| So it's a tear to understand the gravity of a situation and yet retain one's joie de vivre, a joy of life. | |
| My argument in this regard is one that you will, I don't know if I've ever actually stated. | |
| But it does play a role in my life. | |
| And that is, I don't want to give the bad guys the joy of getting me down. | |
| It's a very serious consideration in my life. | |
| Then they really win. | |
| I'm sorry? | |
| That's their whole strategy, said the living martyr. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Depress us, have us give up, have us just, you know, slink home and so on. | |
| That is exactly right. | |
| The left finds our love of life very depressing. | |
| Tell me, what does the left enjoy other than power? | |
| Can you name anything? | |
| I'll give you some time. | |
| I'll have some of my delicious homemade... | |
| Iced coffee. | |
| You know, my wife and I were talking about this. | |
| It is a very interesting gap between them and us. | |
| And I've often realized this. | |
| It's very hard to understand people who do the opposite of you, and it's an irrational thing. | |
| I don't understand people who ache to have power over me or over you. | |
| I don't. | |
| I have no desire to have power over anybody. | |
| The only people I guess I've ever wanted power over was when my kids were young. | |
| And then a parent should have power over their children because the children get very frazzled if the parent is not in charge. | |
| They feel the parent is not in charge. | |
| And God knows I was a pretty easygoing parent. | |
| But still, it was important for them, for me, to be the authority. | |
| But beyond that, I don't want it over anybody. | |
| So it's a gap. | |
| And this is the problem. | |
| People who don't want... | |
| To rob banks don't understand people who do want to rob banks, although that's not a perfect analogy because in a certain sense, I would say that wanting to rob a bank is more natural or more ubiquitous than wanting to have power over other people. | |
| I mean, everybody has had to learn to be honest. | |
| Robbing a bank is just a picturesque phrase for what I'm talking about. | |
| Being dishonest. | |
| People have to fight to be honest. | |
| Some have to fight more than others, but still, almost everybody does. | |
| It's natural. | |
| Most of the kids in my class cheated on tests, for example. | |
| So, we don't understand the people who want power over us. | |
| We who want to be left alone to enjoy life don't understand the people who want to have power over us. | |
| And the problem is that when you don't understand people, you don't imagine that's what is happening. | |
| That's the naivete of the liberal. | |
| Conservatives understand what's going on. | |
| Liberals don't. | |
| If liberals understood what was going on, the country would be in superb condition, because there are more liberals than leftists. | |
| But they don't. | |
| So I welcome you to the program. | |
| My column, what is today? | |
| Tuesday? | |
| Yeah, so today's my column day. | |
| And I'm happy to say it was picked up by Real Clear Politics. | |
| The reason I'm happy about that is because then you're assured that you will have non-conservative readers. | |
| Real Clear Politics is completely down the middle. | |
| It only takes what it considers the most important left and right articles on any given day. | |
| So I have a question that I pose in my column today, and boy, I wish you would send it out to your liberal relatives. | |
| It's asked in a very, very honest way, actually. | |
| And I pose this on the radio, where I work through a lot of my theories, because I get your reactions. |
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