Dennis Prager Show - The Nanny State is NOT an American Idea
Aired: 2021-04-13
Duration: 03:12


=== Care Over Power (03:11) ===

[00:00:00]  So it is almost inevitable that you have countries committing suicide.
[00:00:07]  They elect people who love power.
[00:00:09]  The people get elected who love power because they promise the people who elect them money.
[00:00:18]  Vote for us, we'll give you more.
[00:00:21]  Most people are fine with that.
[00:00:27]  There's something so ennobling in taking care of yourself.
[00:00:33]  It's the opposite.
[00:00:34]  It's truly the opposite of selfishness.
[00:00:39]  Selfishness is take care of me.
[00:00:42]  You take care of me.
[00:00:43]  That's selfishness.
[00:00:45]  I take care of me is altruism.
[00:00:49]  Because then you don't have to take care of me.
[00:00:52]  And the people who take care of themselves inevitably take care of others.
[00:00:58]  That was the American dream.
[00:00:59]  I take care of me, I take care of my family, I take care of my community.
[00:01:04]  And by and large, it was exactly what was happening.
[00:01:09]  Until the idea caught on in the late 19th century from Germany, where it originated under Bismarck, that, no, the state will take care of you.
[00:01:21]  That idea never occurred to the American founders.
[00:01:24]  The state will take care of me?
[00:01:27]  There's no such thing as the state will take care of me.
[00:01:31]  States crush.
[00:01:34]  They say, oh, look at Denmark.
[00:01:36]  This is always the thing, right?
[00:01:37]  Look at Denmark.
[00:01:38]  Yeah, let's look at Denmark.
[00:01:40]  See Denmark's latest proclamation?
[00:01:44]  No more refugees from the Middle East?
[00:01:48]  Want to follow Denmark's ideas?
[00:01:53]  You're probably not familiar with him.
[00:01:55]  Don't we have a Dane giving a...
[00:01:57]  We have a Dane giving a PragerU video.
[00:02:00]  I'm sorry?
[00:02:05]  Say it again?
[00:02:07]  Oh, a Danish economist.
[00:02:09]  Yes, exactly.
[00:02:10]  By the way, this week's PragerU video is Dennis Prager.
[00:02:14]  I give one out of ten.
[00:02:17]  90% are given by others.
[00:02:21]  I'm explaining what communism did.
[00:02:23]  Let your kids see that.
[00:02:24]  If your kid's flirting with communism.
[00:02:30]  Oh, I want to read the comments on YouTube.
[00:02:32]  Uh-huh.
[00:02:39]  Right.
[00:02:40]  And what do the opponents say?
[00:02:42]  What is their argument?
[00:02:44]  I'm dying to read it.
[00:02:45]  Thank you for telling me that.
[00:02:47]  I'm going to read the comments to you folks tomorrow.
[00:02:51]  Anyway, it's PragerU.com.
[00:02:53]  It's also YouTube.
[00:02:55]  I wonder if they'll take it down.
[00:02:57]  I wonder if you could actually condemn communism today.
[00:03:05]  Here's a question to ask Coca-Cola.
[00:03:08]  What's morally worse, the Georgia voting law or communism?