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Feb. 18, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
05:50
Dinesh D'Souza Explains The Left-Right Divide
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One man said, you know, we live in different realities.
Your facts and my facts differ.
He said, I couldn't agree with you more.
And then I said, for example, my fact is men do not give birth.
The left's fact is men do give birth or can give birth.
So one guy goes, what are you talking about?
And it reminded me of when I was on Bill Maher's show a year and a half ago, and I mentioned the same thing.
And Bill Maher goes, what are you talking about?
And I realized people on the left do not really know what the left stands for and advocates.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
Yeah, I think that's a really good point.
The left has, it's always pushing the edge in terms of the latest form of victimology.
So for example, it used to be that men are victimizing women.
And then it became that women themselves are victimizers because there are women who are also women of color who are being victimized by these women.
And then it turns out that the women of color are victimizing women who are, say, gay or lesbian.
And then the women of color who are lesbian are victimizing trans women who are basically sort of the frontier of this debate.
So what you see here is a kind of—it's not really dominoes.
It's a radicalization of the position that was mainstream yesterday.
But, of course, the memo hasn't gotten out to everybody.
So what really happens is these Democrats kind of are riding in a ship.
Without quite realizing where the captain is steering them.
And they don't realize that perhaps in the end they too will become victims of the latest kind of turn in leftist ideology.
We're seeing that a little bit with things like comedians.
Comedians were actually okay when right-wingers were being censored and suddenly they realized, you know what?
You can't make jokes about what you said to your wife at the dinner table yesterday.
Wow!
So suddenly your own profession, your own daily operations have been endangered because you went along with this ideology that then turned on you.
That's all correct.
As I told them, you folks are Mensheviks, and you will be swallowed up by the Bolsheviks.
That's exactly my way of phrasing what you just said.
I also would note, and ask your reaction again, that there is very little laughter or joviality on the left.
I mean if you differ, please feel free to, but that's my observation.
Well, you know, I think it's true, but it's not obvious what the reason for it is.
In fact, it may seem that it should be the opposite, because I think, Dennis, you and I would probably agree that if we dig down to the core, the real difference between us and them is that we take, you may almost say, the low view of human nature.
That's right.
This, for example, is why we believe in checks and balances, division of power, limited government, and so on, because we believe that power can expand tyrannically.
Now, they have this sort of high view of human nature, and you'd think it would make them very cheerful and jovial people, but I think the opposite is true, ironically.
Precisely because we have the low view of human nature, our expectations are more modest, they're more measured.
When things turn out okay, we're pleasantly surprised.
When things go badly, we sometimes expect that, because, wow, human nature makes a lot of mistakes and sometimes takes the wrong road.
So I think, paradoxically, our realistic view of human nature I need to read to you.
This is so eerie.
It's going to take me a moment to call up.
I need to read to you the title of my column this week on Town Hall because it shows this is so good for my listeners to hear.
Sometimes I, and I'm sure you feel this too, people might think listening to you and you have a very large support base.
I don't like to say fan base, but fan base is fine.
And they may think this is Dinesh's view.
Or in my case, this is Dennis' view.
It just occurred to me Dinesh and Dennis are the same names.
Isn't that interesting?
But in just different languages.
But in any event, it's not every word you just said, I have said.
We have normative, realistic views.
Like human nature.
And that, I always have said, that's the second most important question.
The first is, is there a creator?
Is there a God?
The second is, what do you think of human nature?
So, you're so right on the happiness.
Anyway, basically, I can't dig it up while talking to you, but my topic is, given human nature, America has been a remarkable achievement.
And that's our view.
We are not shocked by slavery.
We are not shocked by bad things.
We are shocked by good things.
That's a Dinesh and Dennis view.
I'll be back with Dinesh D'Souza.
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