Dennis Prager Show - Leftists Live in a Make Believe World
Aired: 2025-07-11
Duration: 04:31

[00:00:00]  When I say that the gulf between left and right in America is not bridgeable, it it is 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, what is the what is these things?
[00:00:18]  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 that's I don't need 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?
[00:00:45]  Aren't the richest zip codes in the country overwhelmingly Democrat?
[00:00:51]  They live in a make-believe world left, make-believe.
[00:00:54]  The they it's like they an idea got into their brain 50 years ago or a hundred 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.
[00:01:19]  But the rich and powerful are left wing, overwhelmingly.
[00:01:28]  So here is Nicholas Christoph, 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]  Has the Dem have the Democrats helped the working class voters?
[00:01:53]  Working class voters just as an example, working class voters.
[00:02:00]  Would they are they benefiting from uh the California raising the uh minimum wage?
[00:02:06]  You know how many people have lost their jobs because the minimum wage has been has been raised.
[00:02:15]  Have uh the working class voters who want to send their kids to decent schools be been benefited by the Democrats who oppose school choice.
[00:02:26]  Well one of the reasons the U.S. historically has not had better, more socially conscious policies.
[00:02:36]  What the hell does that mean?
[00:02:38]  That means bigger and bigger and bigger government.
[00:02:42]  Listen to my broadcast yesterday on the Ultimate Issues Hour about how destructive big governments are.
[00:02:49]  There's a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling.
[00:02:56]  Uh...
[00:02:58]  That's right.
[00:02:59]  And that that's not a uh a reader of the New York Times, that's a writer in the New York Times who wants to reach out to conservatives.
[00:03:09]  There is a complete lack of empathy among conservatives for those who are struggling.
[00:03:15]  You know, so this is the way you must understand how the left-wing mind works.
[00:03:22]  If you are not for a making the government bigger, then you have a complete lack of empathy for those who are struggling.
[00:03:34]  That is the way it works.
[00:03:36]  Empathy for those struggling means increase government hand outs to people.
[00:03:44]  Make the government that much bigger.
[00:03:48]  That's what empathy for those who are struggling means.
[00:03:54]  It is not if you volunteer more, because conservatives volunteer more than leftists.
[00:03:59]  Leftist this is one of my biggest arguments about how bad the left is the leftism crushes altruism.
[00:04:08]  Because people say I don't need to help my neighbor, my community, the government will.
[00:04:17]  As the government gets bigger, charities get smaller.
[00:04:22]  As the government gets bigger, personal altruism gets smaller.
[00:04:28]  The government will take care of you.
[00:04:30]  Why should I?