Dennis Prager Show - Argentina Is Embracing American Values
Aired: 2024-04-26
Duration: 09:26


=== Embracing Western Values (09:26) ===

[00:00:00]  There is a wonderful human being as the head of a country.
[00:00:06]  I don't know how long he will be, but he's actually remarkable.
[00:00:12]  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.
[00:00:31]  So here's from the Daily Wire, this report.
[00:00:35]  The recently elected president of Argentina, Javier Millet, is turning to the values of America's founding fathers to save his country.
[00:00:46]  He told Ben Shapiro, we have decided to embrace the values of the West.
[00:00:54]  Millet explains in a wide-ranging interview with Shapiro, the Daily Wire...
[00:01:00]  And the Daily Wire, and embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
[00:01:07]  He has that so clear.
[00:01:10]  I am in awe of the founders of the United States.
[00:01:16]  I know that to almost any young American who has been taught at a normal school, that sounds amazing.
[00:01:25]  You admire slave owners?
[00:01:29]  And that's it.
[00:01:34]  I don't know how to say this, but there's very often...
[00:01:38]  The reason I don't know how to say this is I don't want to make any ad hominem attacks on people.
[00:01:46]  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.
[00:02:03]  They have been taught at American high schools and colleges, so they don't know how to think clearly.
[00:02:11]  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.
[00:02:27]  Well, well, and this is an example.
[00:02:29]  They had slaves, therefore we have nothing to learn from them.
[00:02:34]  They are invalidated just on those grounds.
[00:02:40]  So what happens is, the people who founded the freest society has ever been created in history.
[00:02:48]  The people who led America in a revolution that was the opposite of the French Revolution.
[00:02:55]  And who gave the world hope for liberty.
[00:02:58]  Hence, the Statue of Liberty given by France.
[00:03:05]  Ironically, the home of the French Revolution gave America the Statue of Liberty.
[00:03:11]  Even though they had liberty, fraternity, equality in their motto.
[00:03:15]  But as soon as equality is in your motto, you can get rid of liberty and fraternity.
[00:03:22]  You can't have liberty and equality.
[00:03:25]  It's not possible because we're talking equality of result, obviously.
[00:03:30]  Everybody believes that we are all created.
[00:03:32]  Everybody, at least, who believes in God, believes we're all created in God's image.
[00:03:39]  We're not talking about equality of birth, but equality of result.
[00:03:48]  He's right.
[00:03:50]  If you study the founders of America, the president of Argentina says, then you will understand and embrace the values of the West.
[00:04:01]  That is right.
[00:04:04]  That's why I wrote my book, Still the Best Hope, Why American Values Have to...
[00:04:13]  I don't remember the subtitle, but it's about spreading American values.
[00:04:19]  Throughout the world.
[00:04:20]  I'll get the subtitle.
[00:04:21]  It's called Still the Best Hope.
[00:04:23]  It's three books in one about the left.
[00:04:26]  It's about America, American values, and it is about Islam.
[00:04:34]  In some ways, it's the most important book I've written.
[00:04:37]  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.
[00:04:49]  Timeless with Julie Hartman.
[00:04:54]  That was the book that started her on her road to moral clarity and changed their life.
[00:05:04]  Why American values?
[00:05:06]  That's the issue.
[00:05:10]  Still the best hope.
[00:05:12]  Why the world needs American values to triumph.
[00:05:16]  That's my book.
[00:05:17]  That's exactly what Javier Millet is saying.
[00:05:22]  I, the Argentine president, want to adopt American values.
[00:05:29]  They will save Argentina and they will save the West.
[00:05:38]  That is what he believes, and he is right.
[00:05:42]  How many kids, kids, how many people under 40, if you ask them, what are our American values?
[00:05:51]  Would even have an answer.
[00:05:54]  They wouldn't have an answer.
[00:05:58]  Maybe they would say equality, confusing the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
[00:06:07]  Embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
[00:06:14]  Oh my God, is that clear?
[00:06:16]  That is exactly right.
[00:06:18]  Why the world needs American values to triumph.
[00:06:22]  I hope you'll read my book.
[00:06:24]  I don't write to make money.
[00:06:27]  I write to touch lives.
[00:06:29]  If I wrote to make money, I would not be writing a commentary on the first five books of the Bible.
[00:06:36]  I feel that I make enough money so that I can write books that may not make a lot of money.
[00:06:43]  Because I want to touch people's lives.
[00:06:46]  They've been best sellers, but that doesn't mean anything.
[00:06:51]  Often, it doesn't tell you about the financial remuneration.
[00:06:54]  And I'm not complaining.
[00:06:55]  I am the luckiest man I know.
[00:06:59]  But I do want you to read Still the Best Hope.
[00:07:03]  It'll blow your mind.
[00:07:05]  This is relevant today, maybe more relevant than when I wrote it.
[00:07:11]  Embracing the values of the West means embracing the founding fathers of the United States.
[00:07:18]  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.
[00:07:31]  Millet told Shapiro that Moses is the greatest freedom hero of all time, and that Israel still embodies Moses' spirit.
[00:07:41]  God, this guy's amazing.
[00:07:44]  The moral clarity of this guy.
[00:07:47]  What is his motto when he speaks something?
[00:07:50]  What is it?
[00:07:51]  Freedom, dammit?
[00:07:53]  Let me get that phrase correctly.
[00:07:58]  I played for you a speech that he gave at the World Economic Forum.
[00:08:02]  It was unbelievable that he was telling these people about freedom and capitalism.
[00:08:12]  The free market.
[00:08:15]  Freedom is freedom.
[00:08:17]  Freedom has to stretch to the economy.
[00:08:21]  And it has to stretch, of course, to speech.
[00:08:25]  Now, here is a man.
[00:08:27]  This should make you think.
[00:08:28]  Here is the president of a major country, Argentina.
[00:08:36]  And he is telling the world what we need are American values.
[00:08:43]  And he is probably the most pro-Israel leader in the world today.
[00:08:50]  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?
[00:08:59]  Well, Joe Biden is not the most pro-Israel, and he doesn't embrace those American values.
[00:09:07]  He doesn't embrace any values, in my opinion.
[00:09:10]  Basically, what he believes is what will keep him in power and win votes.
[00:09:21]  Very few people know what he actually stands for, to be perfectly honest.