Dennis Prager Show - What Does the Left Enjoy Other Than Power?
Aired: 2021-01-26
Duration: 05:15


=== Understanding the Gravity of Life (05:01) ===

[00:00:00]  To just think gloom.
[00:00:04]  And I don't want to think just gloom.
[00:00:08]  So it's a tear to understand the gravity of a situation and yet retain one's joie de vivre, a joy of life.
[00:00:20]  My argument in this regard is one that you will, I don't know if I've ever actually stated.
[00:00:29]  But it does play a role in my life.
[00:00:32]  And that is, I don't want to give the bad guys the joy of getting me down.
[00:00:47]  It's a very serious consideration in my life.
[00:00:51]  Then they really win.
[00:00:54]  I'm sorry?
[00:00:55]  That's their whole strategy, said the living martyr.
[00:01:01]  Exactly.
[00:01:01]  Depress us, have us give up, have us just, you know, slink home and so on.
[00:01:06]  That is exactly right.
[00:01:09]  The left finds our love of life very depressing.
[00:01:17]  Tell me, what does the left enjoy other than power?
[00:01:20]  Can you name anything?
[00:01:21]  I'll give you some time.
[00:01:24]  I'll have some of my delicious homemade...
[00:01:28]  Iced coffee.
[00:01:32]  You know, my wife and I were talking about this.
[00:01:36]  It is a very interesting gap between them and us.
[00:01:44]  And I've often realized this.
[00:01:46]  It's very hard to understand people who do the opposite of you, and it's an irrational thing.
[00:01:57]  I don't understand people who ache to have power over me or over you.
[00:02:03]  I don't.
[00:02:05]  I have no desire to have power over anybody.
[00:02:10]  The only people I guess I've ever wanted power over was when my kids were young.
[00:02:16]  And then a parent should have power over their children because the children get very frazzled if the parent is not in charge.
[00:02:26]  They feel the parent is not in charge.
[00:02:28]  And God knows I was a pretty easygoing parent.
[00:02:31]  But still, it was important for them, for me, to be the authority.
[00:02:39]  But beyond that, I don't want it over anybody.
[00:02:45]  So it's a gap.
[00:02:50]  And this is the problem.
[00:02:52]  People who don't want...
[00:02:55]  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.
[00:03:13]  I mean, everybody has had to learn to be honest.
[00:03:18]  Robbing a bank is just a picturesque phrase for what I'm talking about.
[00:03:25]  Being dishonest.
[00:03:27]  People have to fight to be honest.
[00:03:29]  Some have to fight more than others, but still, almost everybody does.
[00:03:34]  It's natural.
[00:03:34]  Most of the kids in my class cheated on tests, for example.
[00:03:39]  So, we don't understand the people who want power over us.
[00:03:44]  We who want to be left alone to enjoy life don't understand the people who want to have power over us.
[00:03:53]  And the problem is that when you don't understand people, you don't imagine that's what is happening.
[00:04:00]  That's the naivete of the liberal.
[00:04:06]  Conservatives understand what's going on.
[00:04:08]  Liberals don't.
[00:04:11]  If liberals understood what was going on, the country would be in superb condition, because there are more liberals than leftists.
[00:04:19]  But they don't.
[00:04:22]  So I welcome you to the program.
[00:04:24]  My column, what is today?
[00:04:26]  Tuesday?
[00:04:27]  Yeah, so today's my column day.
[00:04:30]  And I'm happy to say it was picked up by Real Clear Politics.
[00:04:34]  The reason I'm happy about that is because then you're assured that you will have non-conservative readers.
[00:04:42]  Real Clear Politics is completely down the middle.
[00:04:45]  It only takes what it considers the most important left and right articles on any given day.

=== Posing Theories On Air (00:28) ===

[00:04:52]  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.
[00:05:02]  It's asked in a very, very honest way, actually.
[00:05:07]  And I pose this on the radio, where I work through a lot of my theories, because I get your reactions.