Dennis Prager Show - The Left Is Based On Lies
Aired: 2024-05-13
Duration: 09:58


=== People Believe What They Want To (09:52) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:20]  You would think I wouldn't be angry about people, adults, who believe that human nature is basically good.
[00:00:30]  And I think, are you aware of what has happened?
[00:00:35]  And some are, and they still say that because they want to believe it.
[00:00:48]  I'm thinking not Now I'm thinking aloud.
[00:00:50]  I was thinking quietly about writing something brief called Lessons from a Life Lived.
[00:00:59]  One of the big lessons is most people believe what they want to believe.
[00:01:05]  They don't ask, is it true?
[00:01:08]  They ask, really, what do I want to believe?
[00:01:12]  For some reason, people want to believe that people are basically good.
[00:01:16]  A lot of people want to believe that.
[00:01:19]  I have no wants in this matter.
[00:01:24]  I only want to know what is true.
[00:01:28]  Because if I want to believe something that isn't true, I'm actually making the human condition worse.
[00:01:35]  Is that not obvious?
[00:01:39]  So why would you want to believe something?
[00:01:42]  Why would that even be an operative element?
[00:01:45]  You want to believe it?
[00:01:51]  I visited China a number of occasions.
[00:01:56]  I want to believe I speak Chinese.
[00:01:58]  Now, if I said that to you, you'd think, what are you, out of your mind?
[00:02:01]  You don't speak Chinese.
[00:02:03]  Oh, but I want to believe that I speak Chinese.
[00:02:07]  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.
[00:02:22]  You want to believe people are basically good?
[00:02:25]  First of all, I don't even know why do people want to believe that?
[00:02:30]  What comfort does it give you?
[00:02:32]  I would think it would make you more miserable if people are basically good and there's all this horrible, horrible behavior.
[00:02:43]  People are basically good, but in every society in history there's been slavery?
[00:02:51]  And sometimes the conditions, like everything else, there are gradations of evil.
[00:02:58]  At its best, it's evil, but at its worst, it's horrific.
[00:03:03]  It's sadism.
[00:03:04]  It's legal sadism.
[00:03:13]  People are basically good, but people enjoyed watching cats get burned alive this year.
[00:03:18]  This was a...
[00:03:20]  A book on medieval Europe that I was reading.
[00:03:24]  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.
[00:03:39]  That people are basically good.
[00:03:45]  Back to the origins.
[00:03:48]  Yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day.
[00:03:51]  If you read what has happened, were these people aberrations?
[00:03:58]  Now, I don't believe people are basically evil, because if we were basically evil, we couldn't be good.
[00:04:04]  We wouldn't want to be good.
[00:04:06]  I think we can do either.
[00:04:11]  We have free will.
[00:04:15]  But basically good is ridiculous.
[00:04:17]  How often did you tell your child, say thank you?
[00:04:21]  If we were basically good, you'd only have to tell your child once, twice, three times.
[00:04:28]  And then your child would realize, oh, of course, it's the right thing to do to express gratitude.
[00:04:34]  But did your child say that?
[00:04:39]  Why did you have to say say thank you a thousand times?
[00:04:42]  Very possibly more than a thousand.
[00:04:45]  If we're basically good.
[00:04:49]  But as I said, people believe what they want to believe.
[00:04:53]  Truth is everything.
[00:04:57]  It is hard to imagine that a society rooted just in truth will be a bad society.
[00:05:05]  It really is.
[00:05:06]  It's hard to believe.
[00:05:08]  I can't imagine it.
[00:05:11]  There are many things that are needed to produce good people in a good society, but that's the pillar, truth.
[00:05:21]  And the left is the world of the lie.
[00:05:25]  Because you don't ask, is it true?
[00:05:28]  Like Israel's committing genocide.
[00:05:29]  That's the contemporary example.
[00:05:32]  America's systemically racist.
[00:05:35]  Men give birth.
[00:05:42]  The enormity of the lies.
[00:05:44]  It's fair for a man to compete against women.
[00:05:46]  Where did this just happen?
[00:05:48]  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.
[00:06:19]  You're a hater, transphobic.
[00:06:23]  Those, the very notions...
[00:06:25]  You see, they don't say you're not telling the truth.
[00:06:29]  They say you're a hater.
[00:06:30]  They say you're transphobic.
[00:06:33]  But of course it's the truth.
[00:06:38]  It's not fair if a man competes against women.
[00:06:43]  It's irrelevant that he says he's a woman.
[00:06:45]  Irrelevant.
[00:06:46]  Truth.
[00:06:55]  The motto of Harvard is truth.
[00:06:58]  Veritas.
[00:06:59]  There was a time in American history when it was realized truth was everything!
[00:07:08]  That's why that's a one-word motto.
[00:07:12]  And who has, one of the other colleges has Lux A Veritas.
[00:07:19]  Is it Light and Truth?
[00:07:21]  Are you aware of that?
[00:07:23]  Take a look.
[00:07:24]  Lux, L-U-X, A-E-T, Veritas.
[00:07:30]  I think it's another Ivy League college that has that.
[00:07:36]  There was a pursuit of truth.
[00:07:40]  Look, slavery was built on a lie.
[00:07:44]  The lie that black human beings are inferior.
[00:07:49]  Yale.
[00:07:49]  Yale, yeah, I thought so.
[00:07:52]  And, of course, Yale was the one with the Hebrew, from the Hebrew Bible.
[00:07:58]  The breastplate of the high priest.
[00:08:01]  Can you imagine that?
[00:08:04]  Other than a few religious Jewish students at the college, does anybody at Yale know what their insignia is about?
[00:08:12]  I'm amazed that they haven't objected to it.
[00:08:14]  Just amazed.
[00:08:15]  The whole Holocaust was based on the lie.
[00:08:27]  Okay.
[00:08:31]  The whole anti-Israel thing today is based on a lie.
[00:08:35]  Israel's an apartheid state.
[00:08:37]  It's just a lie.
[00:08:42]  2 million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel.
[00:08:46]  Full citizens.
[00:08:48]  Did blacks live as full citizens in South Africa?
[00:08:54]  We have a video on that, too, from a black South African member of the South African parliament.
[00:09:01]  He went to Israel to see, is there truth to the charge that Israel's an apartheid state?
[00:09:06]  He lived under apartheid.
[00:09:07]  He would know.
[00:09:09]  And he came back and said there's a big lie.
[00:09:11]  For how many years did the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and NPR lie about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign?
[00:09:28]  51 members of the...
[00:09:30]  The intelligence community signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was probably Russian disinformation a month before the 2020 national election.

=== What Is True First (00:20) ===

[00:09:47]  They asked, how do we make it easier for Biden to win?
[00:09:51]  They didn't ask what is true.
[00:09:53]  What is true has to be the first question before every other thing.