Dennis Prager Show - Chicago Voters Are Responsible
Aired: 2025-09-07
Duration: 03:25

[00:00:00]  I don't know.
[00:00:00]  I don't know how to react emotionally.
[00:00:02]  I know how to react morally.
[00:00:04]  I know how to react intellectually.
[00:00:06]  I don't know how to react emotionally when people elect scummy leaders and then suffer for it.
[00:00:16]  Do I say you deserve it?
[00:00:19]  Well, what about the people who didn't vote for him?
[00:00:21]  So it's the old question about Abraham's argument with God.
[00:00:26]  And it's about Sodom and Gomorrah, which if you went to an American college, you know nothing about.
[00:00:34]  But it's a very famous story among those who know the most important work of Western history, the Bible.
[00:00:41]  So God wants to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because they're evil cities.
[00:00:46]  And Abraham, the first believer in the God of the universe, which is the God introduced by the Hebrew Bible, says, you know what?
[00:00:57]  Well, God, let me ask you, what if there are 50 righteous men?
[00:01:00]  Will you destroy the city?
[00:01:03]  And God says, no, if there are 50 righteous men or humans in Sodom and Gomorrah, I won't.
[00:01:10]  What about 40?
[00:01:11]  What about 30?
[00:01:12]  What about 20?
[00:01:13]  What about 10?
[00:01:14]  Then he stops at 10.
[00:01:17]  So I I understand that.
[00:01:20]  There are certainly certainly that percentage equivalent of decent people in Chicago.
[00:01:28]  But you know what?
[00:01:29]  There is such a thing as collective guilt.
[00:01:33]  And it's a painful thing, but it is true.
[00:01:38]  What is collective guilt, at least in this context mean?
[00:01:42]  Chicago is responsible for whom it elects as mayor.
[00:01:48]  And if you if you loathe your mayor and you live in Chicago, you are partially responsible.
[00:01:57]  You were not effective in getting more people in Chicago to vote differently.
[00:02:08]  If you sent your kid to a public school in Chicago and you loathe the mayor of Chicago, you are partially responsible because you're supporting the Chicago Teachers Union, one of the most loathsome groups in America.
[00:02:23]  Remember when they threatened to go on strike if they didn't keep the schools locked down more?
[00:02:27]  And now by the way, there's now a new report, yet another report about the amount of depression that the lockdowns caused young people.
[00:02:36]  No group hurts young people in America like teachers' unions.
[00:02:40]  No one comes close as a group.
[00:02:45]  So there's the Wall Street Journal has an editorial.
[00:02:50]  They say voters deserve what they get in a democracy.
[00:02:53]  That's how they begin.
[00:02:56]  But no one deserves Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, and certainly not Chicago school children.
[00:03:03]  But that's not true.
[00:03:05]  It's true about the children.
[00:03:07]  It's not true.
[00:03:07]  No one deserves Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.
[00:03:11]  Every fool who voted for him deserves him.
[00:03:14]  But by the way, the teachers are not fools for voting for him, because they knew they're voting to get a raise.
[00:03:21]  So they're not fools.
[00:03:23]  They're vile, but they're not fools.