Sept. 25, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
04:35
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| When I say that the gulf between left and right in America is not bridgeable, it is fools like this Jordan in Missouri that I'm thinking of. | |
| They live in a make-believe world. | |
| Trump lied about taking on corrupt institutions. | |
| Well, he didn't take on the deep state as much as he should, but I don't think that that's what Jordan meant. | |
| Uplifting the forgotten reaches of the country, but instead he did what the GOP always does, cater to the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class. | |
| So why is the working class voting for him? | |
| Aren't the richest zip codes in the country overwhelmingly Democrat? | |
| They live in a make-believe world of the left. | |
| Make-believe. | |
| It's like an idea got into their brain 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, and it has never shifted. | |
| They're still voting for Franklin Roosevelt. | |
| What the GOP always does, cater to the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class. | |
| But the rich and powerful are left-wing, overwhelmingly. | |
| So here is Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist, response to Jordan. | |
| Jordan, I think you're absolutely right that Trump, and more broadly the GOP, has been of zero help to those working-class voters. | |
| Really? | |
| Have the Democrats helped the working class voters? | |
| Working class voters, just as an example, working class voters, are they benefiting from California raising the minimum wage? | |
| You know how many people have lost their jobs because of the minimum wage? | |
| Have the working class voters who want to send their kids to decent schools been benefited by the Democrats who oppose school choice? | |
| Wow. | |
| One of the reasons the U.S. historically has not had better, more socially conscious policies. | |
| What the hell does that mean? | |
| That means bigger and bigger and bigger. | |
| Government. | |
| Listen to my broadcast yesterday on the Ultimate Issues Hour about how destructive big governments are. | |
| There's a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling. | |
| That's right. | |
| And that's not a reader of the New York Times. | |
| That's a writer in the New York Times who wants to reach out to conservatives. | |
| There is a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling. | |
| So this is the way you must understand how the left-wing mind works. | |
| If you are not for making the government bigger, then you have a complete lack of empathy for those who are struggling. | |
| That is the way it works. | |
| Empathy for those struggling means increase government handouts to people. | |
| Make the government that much bigger. | |
| That's what empathy for those who are struggling means. | |
| It is not if you volunteer more, because conservatives volunteer more than leftists. | |
| Leftists, this is one of my biggest arguments about how bad the leftists... | |
| Leftism crushes altruism. | |
| Because people say, I don't need to help my neighbor, my community. | |
| The government will. | |
| As the government gets bigger, charities get smaller. | |
| As the government gets bigger, personal altruism gets smaller. | |
| The government will take care of you. |
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