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April 26, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
09:26
Argentina Is Embracing American Values
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There is a wonderful human being as the head of a country.
I don't know how long he will be, but he's actually remarkable.
Javier Millet, the president of Argentina, the newly elected president of Argentina, who loves the West, who loves Israel, who loves the founders of America.
So here's from the Daily Wire, this report.
The recently elected president of Argentina, Javier Millet, is turning to the values of America's founding fathers to save his country.
He told Ben Shapiro, we have decided to embrace the values of the West.
Millet explains in a wide-ranging interview with Shapiro, the Daily Wire...
And the Daily Wire, and embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
He has that so clear.
I am in awe of the founders of the United States.
I know that to almost any young American who has been taught at a normal school, that sounds amazing.
You admire slave owners?
And that's it.
I don't know how to say this, but there's very often...
The reason I don't know how to say this is I don't want to make any ad hominem attacks on people.
But so often when I am in a dialogue or debate with somebody with whom I strongly differ on these major matters, I'm realizing They know not what they say.
They have been taught at American high schools and colleges, so they don't know how to think clearly.
Most of the time when I am in debates, the issue is not so much that I think they're wrong, although I do, it's that it is clear to me that they have been taught how not to think clearly.
Well, well, and this is an example.
They had slaves, therefore we have nothing to learn from them.
They are invalidated just on those grounds.
So what happens is, the people who founded the freest society has ever been created in history.
The people who led America in a revolution that was the opposite of the French Revolution.
And who gave the world hope for liberty.
Hence, the Statue of Liberty given by France.
Ironically, the home of the French Revolution gave America the Statue of Liberty.
Even though they had liberty, fraternity, equality in their motto.
But as soon as equality is in your motto, you can get rid of liberty and fraternity.
You can't have liberty and equality.
It's not possible because we're talking equality of result, obviously.
Everybody believes that we are all created.
Everybody, at least, who believes in God, believes we're all created in God's image.
We're not talking about equality of birth, but equality of result.
He's right.
If you study the founders of America, the president of Argentina says, then you will understand and embrace the values of the West.
That is right.
That's why I wrote my book, Still the Best Hope, Why American Values Have to...
I don't remember the subtitle, but it's about spreading American values.
Throughout the world.
I'll get the subtitle.
It's called Still the Best Hope.
It's three books in one about the left.
It's about America, American values, and it is about Islam.
In some ways, it's the most important book I've written.
It was the book that got Julie Hartman, that remarkable young woman whom I do a podcast with, Dennis and Julian, who does her own podcast.
Timeless with Julie Hartman.
That was the book that started her on her road to moral clarity and changed their life.
Why American values?
That's the issue.
Still the best hope.
Why the world needs American values to triumph.
That's my book.
That's exactly what Javier Millet is saying.
I, the Argentine president, want to adopt American values.
They will save Argentina and they will save the West.
That is what he believes, and he is right.
How many kids, kids, how many people under 40, if you ask them, what are our American values?
Would even have an answer.
They wouldn't have an answer.
Maybe they would say equality, confusing the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
Embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
Oh my God, is that clear?
That is exactly right.
Why the world needs American values to triumph.
I hope you'll read my book.
I don't write to make money.
I write to touch lives.
If I wrote to make money, I would not be writing a commentary on the first five books of the Bible.
I feel that I make enough money so that I can write books that may not make a lot of money.
Because I want to touch people's lives.
They've been best sellers, but that doesn't mean anything.
Often, it doesn't tell you about the financial remuneration.
And I'm not complaining.
I am the luckiest man I know.
But I do want you to read Still the Best Hope.
It'll blow your mind.
This is relevant today, maybe more relevant than when I wrote it.
Embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
The article goes on to say, Malay is a strong supporter of strengthening relations between Argentina and the United States, as well as other countries that embrace freedom such as Israel.
Millet told Shapiro that Moses is the greatest freedom hero of all time, and that Israel still embodies Moses' spirit.
God, this guy's amazing.
The moral clarity of this guy.
What is his motto when he speaks something?
What is it?
Freedom, dammit?
Let me get that phrase correctly.
I played for you a speech that he gave at the World Economic Forum.
It was unbelievable that he was telling these people about freedom and capitalism.
The free market.
Freedom is freedom.
Freedom has to stretch to the economy.
And it has to stretch, of course, to speech.
Now, here is a man.
This should make you think.
Here is the president of a major country, Argentina.
And he is telling the world what we need are American values.
And he is probably the most pro-Israel leader in the world today.
Now, do you think that's a coincidence that the man who says the world needs the values of the American founders is the most pro-Israel?
Well, Joe Biden is not the most pro-Israel, and he doesn't embrace those American values.
He doesn't embrace any values, in my opinion.
Basically, what he believes is what will keep him in power and win votes.
Very few people know what he actually stands for, to be perfectly honest.
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