Dennis Prager Show - America Is Now To The Left Of Europe
Aired: 2024-10-16
Duration: 05:31


=== Immigration Skepticism Mainstreaming (02:50) ===

[00:00:00]  This is from the Wall Street Journal.
[00:00:01]  Immigration skepticism goes mainstream in Europe.
[00:00:05]  Mainstream.
[00:00:06]  It's not mainstream in the United States.
[00:00:09]  We are to the left of Europe.
[00:00:11]  Europe has shut down these centers for the mutilation of children.
[00:00:28]  They've shut them down.
[00:00:31]  You're a 17-year-old girl.
[00:00:34]  Forget younger.
[00:00:35]  You're a 17-year-old girl, let's say, and you want your breasts removed because you think you're a boy.
[00:00:39]  It's virtually impossible to happen in Europe.
[00:00:43]  Or even, let's make it easier, 18. I played for you, I don't know, last year or earlier this year.
[00:00:53]  One children's hospital that actually...
[00:00:56]  Had a video out of how much money they're making on these surgeries.
[00:01:04]  We are to the left of Europe on abortion.
[00:01:09]  Abortion on demand is very, very rare in this world.
[00:01:17]  Immigration is the most vexing political problem in Europe these days.
[00:01:21]  Wow, that's how it begins the Wall Street Journal piece.
[00:01:28]  You couldn't say that about the United States, could you?
[00:01:32]  I don't have an answer, by the way.
[00:01:34]  I do not have an answer.
[00:01:36]  With all of my study of America, my immersion in these subjects for a lifetime, I don't get it.
[00:01:44]  About half this country doesn't give a damn about this fact.
[00:01:49]  Even in Europe.
[00:01:51]  Listen, it's the most vexing political problem in Europe these days.
[00:01:56]  And guess what?
[00:01:57]  That's not me speaking, that's the article.
[00:02:00]  It's no longer a preoccupation only of the so-called far right.
[00:02:05]  This weekend, centrist Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, I would say, they say centrist, he's actually left of center.
[00:02:15]  We were in Poland and we saw what happened.
[00:02:18]  Became the latest European leader to try to slam this continent's gates shut.
[00:02:24]  Mr. Tusk announced that Poland soon will stop accepting asylum applications from new border crossers.
[00:02:32]  Several thousand migrants, often from the Middle East and Africa, attempt to enter Poland every month.

=== Average Citizen's Priority (02:55) ===

[00:02:39]  Yes, the same Poland that is nowhere near the Middle East or Africa.
[00:02:44]  A growing segment of the public no longer supports European asylum law.
[00:02:54]  To ensure the democratic world would never again turn its back on the world's vulnerable people as too many countries turned away Jews and others fleeing the Nazis.
[00:03:07]  The concern has gone mainstream now as centrist politicians realize voters are serious about the issue.
[00:03:15]  I would say, therefore, that in Europe, the average citizen wants to save their country more than the average American wants to save his or her country.
[00:03:31]  Thank you.
[00:03:33]  There is no other explanation.
[00:03:36]  That is how deep the influence of leftism is.
[00:03:40]  I'll bet that one of the reasons...
[00:03:44]  Here's a thought.
[00:03:45]  The percentage of Americans who have attended college is higher.
[00:03:49]  Than the percentage of any other country attended college.
[00:03:54]  That may be a big factor.
[00:03:57]  You don't learn it at 99% of American colleges.
[00:04:00]  What you do is you are transformed.
[00:04:04]  You're indoctrinated into leftism.
[00:04:09]  All education is a form of indoctrination.
[00:04:12]  There is an indoctrination into the ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness.
[00:04:18]  That's an indoctrination too.
[00:04:21]  So the issue is not, what is indoctrinate?
[00:04:23]  To give a doctrine over depends what the doctrine is.
[00:04:27]  Even if the doctrine is just pursue truth, you are getting a doctrine.
[00:04:33]  But this is a left-wing doctrine, and not a liberal doctrine.
[00:04:39]  More Americans have attended college than in any other place, and it is the college educated that...
[00:04:46]  Forms the backbone of the democratic vote.
[00:04:52]  Berlin last month reimposed checks at Germany's previously unguarded borders with other European Union countries in order to, quote, further limit irregular migration.
[00:05:07]  France, Austria, Italy, Sweden, and others have done the same.
[00:05:13]  A particular problem is migrants.
[00:05:17]  Forum shopping asylum applications.
[00:05:21]  Yes, that's what they do.
[00:05:22]  What country has made it easiest for us to enter?
[00:05:27]  And in the world today, the answer is the United States of America.