Dennis Prager Show - Leftists Live In A Fantasy World
Aired: 2024-09-25
Duration: 04:35


=== Working Class Betrayal (02:54) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:11]  They live in a make-believe world.
[00:00:15]  Trump lied about taking on corrupt institutions.
[00:00:23]  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.
[00:00:31]  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.
[00:00:40]  So why is the working class voting for him?
[00:00:46]  Aren't the richest zip codes in the country overwhelmingly Democrat?
[00:00:51]  They live in a make-believe world of the left.
[00:00:53]  Make-believe.
[00:00:56]  It's like an idea got into their brain 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, and it has never shifted.
[00:01:06]  They're still voting for Franklin Roosevelt.
[00:01:13]  What the GOP always does, cater to the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class.
[00:01:20]  But the rich and powerful are left-wing, overwhelmingly.
[00:01:28]  So here is Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist, response to Jordan.
[00:01:35]  Jordan, I think you're absolutely right that Trump, and more broadly the GOP, has been of zero help to those working-class voters.
[00:01:44]  Really?
[00:01:48]  Have the Democrats helped the working class voters?
[00:01:53]  Working class voters, just as an example, working class voters, are they benefiting from California raising the minimum wage?
[00:02:12]  You know how many people have lost their jobs because of the minimum wage?
[00:02:20]  Have the working class voters who want to send their kids to decent schools been benefited by the Democrats who oppose school choice?
[00:02:31]  Wow.
[00:02:34]  One of the reasons the U.S. historically has not had better, more socially conscious policies.

=== Lack Of Empathy For Struggling (01:55) ===

[00:02:41]  What the hell does that mean?
[00:02:43]  That means bigger and bigger and bigger.
[00:02:46]  Government.
[00:02:47]  Listen to my broadcast yesterday on the Ultimate Issues Hour about how destructive big governments are.
[00:02:56]  There's a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling.
[00:03:03]  That's right.
[00:03:04]  And that's not a reader of the New York Times.
[00:03:08]  That's a writer in the New York Times who wants to reach out to conservatives.
[00:03:14]  There is a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling.
[00:03:20]  So this is the way you must understand how the left-wing mind works.
[00:03:27]  If you are not for making the government bigger, then you have a complete lack of empathy for those who are struggling.
[00:03:39]  That is the way it works.
[00:03:41]  Empathy for those struggling means increase government handouts to people.
[00:03:49]  Make the government that much bigger.
[00:03:53]  That's what empathy for those who are struggling means.
[00:03:58]  It is not if you volunteer more, because conservatives volunteer more than leftists.
[00:04:04]  Leftists, this is one of my biggest arguments about how bad the leftists...
[00:04:10]  Leftism crushes altruism.
[00:04:13]  Because people say, I don't need to help my neighbor, my community.
[00:04:19]  The government will.
[00:04:22]  As the government gets bigger, charities get smaller.
[00:04:27]  As the government gets bigger, personal altruism gets smaller.
[00:04:33]  The government will take care of you.