Dennis Prager Show - Social Fallout From Of The 2024 Election
Aired: 2024-11-13
Duration: 05:13


=== Family Ties Post-Election (04:18) ===

[00:00:00]  As I come to you today, there is a situation happening in our personal lives following the election that may be in a state of flux, at least I hope it is.
[00:00:14]  Did you have something happen in your life right after the election, like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, as the rest of the week wound down?
[00:00:26]  Did you...
[00:00:29]  I'll just put it out.
[00:00:30]  Did anybody cut off a family tie to you?
[00:00:33]  Anybody tell you you're no longer welcome at Thanksgiving?
[00:00:35]  Anybody tell you I ain't coming for Thanksgiving?
[00:00:38]  Anybody tell you to, you know, go blank yourself?
[00:00:42]  And by the way, and they had been tolerant of you the week before.
[00:00:47]  This was like on a dime.
[00:00:50]  I guess maybe because they thought they were going to win?
[00:00:52]  Listen, I've seen sore losers before.
[00:00:55]  We've all seen Trump derangement syndrome.
[00:00:58]  Please, we've been living with that for as long as we've been living with him.
[00:01:01]  But there was something about this election and the body blow that this was to a lot of people that it just, it ate their heart.
[00:01:11]  Family ties, friendships were dashed against the rocks on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday going into the weekend.
[00:01:19]  Some of them may still be, you know, Irretrievable.
[00:01:23]  I hope not.
[00:01:24]  I pray not.
[00:01:26]  I think a lot of this was young people, mostly young people, but anybody who's just got their face buried in TikTok 18 hours a day, that's where you get all your news.
[00:01:38]  You know, it's funny.
[00:01:39]  I've said that Biden, Kamala Harris, Obama, all these people, they didn't believe it when they said Trump was Hitler.
[00:01:45]  They didn't believe it.
[00:01:47]  It was a cynical lie that they told because they thought it would help their side win.
[00:01:51]  You know who did believe it?
[00:01:52]  A bunch of idiot 22-year-olds.
[00:01:55]  That's who.
[00:01:56]  A bunch of morons with their face buried in the glow of TikTok who don't get any news anywhere else, don't talk to anybody outside their bubble.
[00:02:04]  They really do think Hitler's back.
[00:02:06]  And if my dad voted for Hitler, I don't think I can go see my dad at Thanksgiving.
[00:02:13]  And there have been liberal psychiatrists, which may be an oxymoron.
[00:02:20]  There have been liberal people with psychiatric shingles outside their office saying it's okay.
[00:02:29]  Saying, hey, you know, for your mental health, everything's always mental health.
[00:02:33]  Mental health is very important.
[00:02:35]  But the weaponization of mental health as a contrivance to help somebody make a point they just kind of want to make, there's the new pandemic.
[00:02:44]  Anyway, though, they say, you know, for your mental health.
[00:02:49]  If you just can't go to Thanksgiving, if your family voted against you, voted against you?
[00:02:59]  They didn't vote against you.
[00:03:00]  I didn't vote against any.
[00:03:02]  I have friends.
[00:03:03]  I have family.
[00:03:04]  To keep the car on the road, I have friends and I have family who are not as conservative as I am.
[00:03:12]  You know what?
[00:03:14]  At no point, even if I'd have lost.
[00:03:17]  Even if I were bracing for a Kamala regime, I wasn't going to call them and tell them to, you know, go take a long walk off a short pier.
[00:03:24]  I'm done with you forever.
[00:03:25]  Who would do that?
[00:03:27]  And the answer is tons of people did that because they don't have the maturity to withstand an election loss.
[00:03:37]  Listen, it's been eight years since a Republican won, right?
[00:03:40]  For a lot of people, this was their first election.
[00:03:43]  You know what my first election was?
[00:03:46]  Jimmy Carter beating Gerald Ford.
[00:03:48]  I tried to stop the Carter presidency when I was 18. I just didn't have enough company.
[00:03:52]  And you know what I did the following morning?
[00:03:54]  Was I rioting?
[00:03:55]  Was I destroying relationships?
[00:03:57]  I know that was very much another time.
[00:03:59]  A long, long ago time.
[00:04:01]  But in this stupid, internet-soaked, online TikTok-poisoned age...

=== Navigating Toxic Friendships (01:10) ===

[00:04:09]  Our resiliency has been shot.
[00:04:12]  Our hearts have been swallowed.
[00:04:14]  Our brains have been swallowed as a country in so many ways.
[00:04:18]  So, you know, if somebody is 18, 20, 22, and they're living that crazy kind of life, and they really do think that it's 1930s Germany, well, I can see how that might put a little frost on the old relationship around the holidays.
[00:04:35]  So, two things.
[00:04:38]  Be the bigger person.
[00:04:40]  Be the grown-up.
[00:04:41]  Now, if it's just a random semi-friend at work and they're giving you all kinds of grief, be done.
[00:04:47]  Ain't nobody got time for that.
[00:04:48]  But if it's a serious, important friend or family member, do a little bit of outreach.
[00:04:52]  Give them some time.
[00:04:53]  And here's the end of my spiel about this.
[00:04:56]  Coming into and out of the weekend, I'm hearing some intel that some people are getting over it.
[00:05:01]  Some apologies are happening.
[00:05:03]  Like, wow, I was really emotional.
[00:05:05]  Sorry.
[00:05:07]  Kind of let it get the best of me.
[00:05:08]  And things are in the process of healing.
[00:05:11]  I certainly, certainly hope so.