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May 13, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
09:58
The Left Is Based On Lies
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It's one of the reasons, there are so many reasons, Mao's China, Stalin's Soviet Union, Pol Pot's Cambodia, the staggering amount of torture of human beings in almost every society, that I have such an anger.
You would think I wouldn't be angry about people, adults, who believe that human nature is basically good.
And I think, are you aware of what has happened?
And some are, and they still say that because they want to believe it.
I'm thinking not Now I'm thinking aloud.
I was thinking quietly about writing something brief called Lessons from a Life Lived.
One of the big lessons is most people believe what they want to believe.
They don't ask, is it true?
They ask, really, what do I want to believe?
For some reason, people want to believe that people are basically good.
A lot of people want to believe that.
I have no wants in this matter.
I only want to know what is true.
Because if I want to believe something that isn't true, I'm actually making the human condition worse.
Is that not obvious?
So why would you want to believe something?
Why would that even be an operative element?
You want to believe it?
I visited China a number of occasions.
I want to believe I speak Chinese.
Now, if I said that to you, you'd think, what are you, out of your mind?
You don't speak Chinese.
Oh, but I want to believe that I speak Chinese.
Okay, but if you want to believe it, and you're in rural China in need of medicine, you might die, because you wouldn't know how to say, I need medicine.
You want to believe people are basically good?
First of all, I don't even know why do people want to believe that?
What comfort does it give you?
I would think it would make you more miserable if people are basically good and there's all this horrible, horrible behavior.
People are basically good, but in every society in history there's been slavery?
And sometimes the conditions, like everything else, there are gradations of evil.
At its best, it's evil, but at its worst, it's horrific.
It's sadism.
It's legal sadism.
People are basically good, but people enjoyed watching cats get burned alive this year.
This was a...
A book on medieval Europe that I was reading.
And just in passing, they mentioned how the royalty would watch cats burned alive and they would just laugh themselves silly while munching on some wonderful meal.
That people are basically good.
Back to the origins.
Yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day.
If you read what has happened, were these people aberrations?
Now, I don't believe people are basically evil, because if we were basically evil, we couldn't be good.
We wouldn't want to be good.
I think we can do either.
We have free will.
But basically good is ridiculous.
How often did you tell your child, say thank you?
If we were basically good, you'd only have to tell your child once, twice, three times.
And then your child would realize, oh, of course, it's the right thing to do to express gratitude.
But did your child say that?
Why did you have to say say thank you a thousand times?
Very possibly more than a thousand.
If we're basically good.
But as I said, people believe what they want to believe.
Truth is everything.
It is hard to imagine that a society rooted just in truth will be a bad society.
It really is.
It's hard to believe.
I can't imagine it.
There are many things that are needed to produce good people in a good society, but that's the pillar, truth.
And the left is the world of the lie.
Because you don't ask, is it true?
Like Israel's committing genocide.
That's the contemporary example.
America's systemically racist.
Men give birth.
The enormity of the lies.
It's fair for a man to compete against women.
Where did this just happen?
just happy this issue arose well in some in some school or town and the it eludes me for the moment but I was amazed at how many people were angry At this public official who said that it's not right for men to compete against women just because they say they're a woman.
You're a hater, transphobic.
Those, the very notions...
You see, they don't say you're not telling the truth.
They say you're a hater.
They say you're transphobic.
But of course it's the truth.
It's not fair if a man competes against women.
It's irrelevant that he says he's a woman.
Irrelevant.
Truth.
The motto of Harvard is truth.
Veritas.
There was a time in American history when it was realized truth was everything!
That's why that's a one-word motto.
And who has, one of the other colleges has Lux A Veritas.
Is it Light and Truth?
Are you aware of that?
Take a look.
Lux, L-U-X, A-E-T, Veritas.
I think it's another Ivy League college that has that.
There was a pursuit of truth.
Look, slavery was built on a lie.
The lie that black human beings are inferior.
Yale.
Yale, yeah, I thought so.
And, of course, Yale was the one with the Hebrew, from the Hebrew Bible.
The breastplate of the high priest.
Can you imagine that?
Other than a few religious Jewish students at the college, does anybody at Yale know what their insignia is about?
I'm amazed that they haven't objected to it.
Just amazed.
The whole Holocaust was based on the lie.
Okay.
The whole anti-Israel thing today is based on a lie.
Israel's an apartheid state.
It's just a lie.
2 million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel.
Full citizens.
Did blacks live as full citizens in South Africa?
We have a video on that, too, from a black South African member of the South African parliament.
He went to Israel to see, is there truth to the charge that Israel's an apartheid state?
He lived under apartheid.
He would know.
And he came back and said there's a big lie.
For how many years did the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and NPR lie about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign?
51 members of the...
The intelligence community signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was probably Russian disinformation a month before the 2020 national election.
They asked, how do we make it easier for Biden to win?
They didn't ask what is true.
What is true has to be the first question before every other thing.
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