Dennis Prager Show - Loneliness and Moral Breakdown

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Oct. 26, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show

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Loneliness and Moral Breakdown

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	If what is good, what is right, and what is true is only what the individual chooses to invent, Walter Lippmann wrote in his 1955 collection, Essays in the Public Philosophy, then we are outside the tradition of civility.
	How do you like that?
	I didn't expect that from Walter Lippmann.
	Again, if what is good, what is right, and what is true is only what the individual chooses to invent, then we are outside the traditions of civility.
	His book was hooted down by establishment figures such as, are you ready?
	You'll find this fascinating.
	The historian author M. Schlesinger Jr.
	The demoralization of American culture was underway.
	Dehyphen moralization.
	Literally the demoraling of it.
	The breakdown of an enduring moral framework will always produce disconnection, alienation, and an estrangement from those around you.
	Luke Brotherton, a theologian at Duke Divinity School, told me, this is author, another author, this is David Brooks.
	The result is the kind of sadness I see in the people around me.
	Young adults I know are spiraling, leaving school, moving from one mental health facility to another.
	The breakdown of an enduring moral framework will always produce disconnection, alienation, and estrangement.
	That's right.
	The morons of the left, which is redundant, gave them no enduring moral framework.
	That's how you can have demonstrations for Hamas.
	If you have an enduring moral framework, you know evil, that there is evil.
	You don't have a, well, they're both wrong.
	Yes, what is wrong about Israel in wanting to just survive?
	What exactly is wrong about that?
	They occupy territory.
	Are you telling me that Israel should allow the West Bank to be ruled by Hamas?
	People who wish to annihilate every Jew in Israel?
	That's the only reason Israel occupies territory.
	They wanted to give it up five different times in their history.
	See the Prager U video on the Palestinians rejecting a Palestinian state five times.
	Suicide rates have increased by more than 30% since 2000, according to the CDC.
	According to research by Ryan Streeter, the director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, lonely young people are seven times more likely to say they are active in politics than young people who aren't lonely.
	Do you know the whole bloody article was worth it for that fact?
	I'll tell you why when we return.
	Lonely young people are seven times more likely to say they are active in politics than young people who aren't lonely.
	Well, someone gives credence to my notion that the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
	Lonely people are unhappy by definition.
	It also explains the preponderance of young women in radical society-destroying movements.
	They yearn for bonds with people more than men do.
	And when they don't have them, they go a little mad.
	And what the left has done is they've made people lonely and then told them that the solution to their problems is tearing down society and in some cases changing their sex.
	I'm sorry, gender.
	That's a very big statistic.
	Lonely.
	Let's try to have this man on.
	Okay, I want to know where he got that.
	It's really important.
	His name is Ryan Streeter, Street ER, Director of Domestic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute.
	That's a very important little thing.
	For people who feel disrespected, unseen, and alone, politics is a seductive form of social therapy.
	Yes, that's right.
	Then you become important.
	Tear down racist America.
	The only time that they get together with a lot of people was at demonstrations, was at riots.
	People who feel isolated and under threat flee to totalizing identities.
	That's right.
	Politics appears to give people a sense of righteousness.
	A person's moral stature is based not on their conduct, but on their location on the political spectrum.
	You don't have to be good.
	You just have to be liberal or you just have to be conservative.
	Yes, he wants to be even-handed, but that's not true.
	We don't believe that on the right.
	We believe you have to be good.
	It's not enough to be conservative.
	I have said this all of my life.
	What the left has done is macroized morality.
	You don't have to be good.
	You have to have the correct left-wing social position.
	Then you're good.
	And that's what's happened.
	This has been an important two hours delineating what has occurred.

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