Dennis Prager Show - Why Are Vile People Elected By Nice People?
Aired: 2024-05-01
Duration: 07:01


=== Nice People, Vicious Votes (03:22) ===

[00:00:00]  South Africa is run by a vicious bunch of thugs.
[00:00:04]  And it made me think about something.
[00:00:09]  Meeting all these truly decent acting people that I did.
[00:00:16]  I have no idea how they voted.
[00:00:18]  I wasn't going to ask them, who do you vote for?
[00:00:21]  They're having elections in a few weeks, in fact.
[00:00:25]  The ANC is another scummy left-wing radical organization that does nothing for its people and just destroys whatever it touches.
[00:00:37]  And yet they get elected, but so do the Democrats of the United States.
[00:00:42]  If you promise people enough things and convince them that the opposition is fascist, Then there are people who fall for this, especially the well-educated, and especially, in America's case, women.
[00:01:00]  The male-female gap in elections is greater than it's ever been in American history, according to the latest polls.
[00:01:08]  I'll have something to say about that.
[00:01:11]  In the course of time, this notion that I developed as a result of Minnesota, Minnesota has a...
[00:01:22]  A phrase called Minnesota nice.
[00:01:25]  A lot of people in Minnesota are nice.
[00:01:29]  That's meant with no sarcasm whatsoever.
[00:01:34]  It is a sincere statement.
[00:01:35]  A lot of people in Minnesota, a lot of people in the Midwest are nice.
[00:01:39]  Certainly nicer than most people in New York City.
[00:01:44]  And for that matter in many big cities, but not all.
[00:01:49]  And I realized nice people can vote viciously.
[00:01:59]  I don't know.
[00:02:01]  Because there is no connection between nice and wise.
[00:02:07]  You can be not nice and wise, and you can be nice and a fool.
[00:02:15]  At least, fool on the macro matters.
[00:02:18]  Not necessarily in personal matters.
[00:02:23]  So I don't know anything about internal politics of South Africa.
[00:02:29]  I do know that they do elect vile human beings to be their leaders.
[00:02:37]  And they're not vile.
[00:02:40]  Like in Minnesota.
[00:02:42]  Like in California.
[00:02:47]  California now has a bill that Would prohibit CLEAR from working at any California airport.
[00:03:01]  If you pay a certain amount of money per year for CLEAR, because they have all your metrics and your eyes, contact, you get through very fast.

=== Unfair Lines (03:53) ===

[00:03:11]  You get through faster than any regular line and even faster than TSA PreCheck.
[00:03:18]  Of course, I'm at the airport on average every week of the year.
[00:03:24]  As soon as CLEAR started, I joined.
[00:03:28]  But the Democrats in California have decided that it's unfair to people who don't have the money to spend on CLEAR. So there is a bill before the State Senate Assembly In California to ban clear.
[00:03:53]  It's not fair that some people get ahead of the line.
[00:03:57]  Of course, I don't understand why they will allow after that first class seats on airlines.
[00:04:03]  The poor cannot buy a first class seat.
[00:04:07]  It's a better seat.
[00:04:09]  It's wider.
[00:04:10]  It's got more legroom.
[00:04:11]  Why should one be allowed to do that?
[00:04:15]  The equality This notion of equality has produced more death, torture, murder, slaughter than any modern doctrine.
[00:04:39]  More people have been slaughtered in the name of equality than in the name of any other goal.
[00:04:47]  Any other ideal?
[00:04:51]  It's a very dangerous idea that everybody should be equal.
[00:04:57]  And I don't mean before God or in worth as a human being.
[00:05:02]  I'm talking about equality of outcome.
[00:05:09]  The American Revolution was about liberty, the French Revolution.
[00:05:14]  It was about equality.
[00:05:16]  The French Revolution led to the slaughter of human beings.
[00:05:21]  The American Revolution led to more freedom for more people than any country in the history of the world.
[00:05:29]  It did not end slavery, not immediately.
[00:05:33]  It took another hundred years.
[00:05:37]  but slavery was universal.
[00:05:44]  Ironically the egalitarians produce slavery.
[00:05:50]  That's why a citizen of Mao's China was a slave, a citizen of Stalin's Soviet Union was a slave, a citizen in North Korea was a slave, except for the upper echelons of the Communist Party.
[00:06:04]  It is amazing how few young people are ever taught what a vile doctrine equality is.
[00:06:11]  Not equality of opportunity or equality of worth, obviously.
[00:06:14]  We're talking about equality, economic equality, status equality, also equality of outcome.
[00:06:26]  I don't know how the ANC gets elected in South Africa, but the notion that nice people elect despicable human beings is not uncommon whatsoever, and it's a phenomenon in the United States.
[00:06:40]  When nice people vote Democrat.
[00:06:44]  Of course, they will say the exact same thing, except they wouldn't acknowledge that anybody who voted for Donald Trump could be nice.
[00:06:52]  So they don't have the same dilemma, philosophically, as it were, that we do.