In this monologue from The Dennis Prager Show, Dennis Prager discusses a recent study showing widespread unhappiness among Americans. He attributes the unhappiness to what he calls "chaos" generated by left‑wing cultural and political forces, listing issues such as gender‑identity policies, anti‑American historical narratives, climate‑change alarmism, economic decline, devaluation of the dollar, and open‑border immigration. Prager emphasizes that the study identifies a single happy demographic: middle‑ and upper‑middle‑class adults who have both family and religious involvement. He positions himself within this group, explaining that financial security, family ties, and religious faith provide inner peace and protect against anxiety. He argues that even lower‑income middle‑class individuals who maintain family and religion experience greater happiness. The segment ends with a promotional plug directing listeners to pragertopia.com for the full episode.
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So there was a new study on Americans not being happy, and that's, that's largely true, which is very sad because there's really no reason. It's completely induced by the chaos. Chaos makes people unhappy. The chaos that has been induced by the left. You might not be a boy, you might not be a girl. If you want to have your breasts removed, we'll certainly facilitate that happening. The country is a piece of crap. It's always been a piece of crap. It's a racist, colonialist, imperialist, genocidal state. You have nothing to be proud of. The country stinks. We're on stolen land. We were founded by racists. That is what kids are taught. You have no future because global warming is an existential threat, meaning a threat to the existence of. That's what existential means. Of planet Earth and its biological life, particularly humans. And not only that, we are going to make sure that the dollar is much— is worth much less and may not be, for the first time in 100 years, the reserve currency of the world because we are having so much debt. And we are going to open our borders to millions upon millions of people to come in from everywhere in the world. We have no idea who's coming in. We have no idea if they're terrorists. We have no idea if they want to undermine the country, if they want to murder as many Americans as possible, or if they're good or bad human beings. And even if they were all good, you can't have an open border. So it's not— it's no wonder that many Americans are distressed, to say the least. There is reason to be distressed. That, that is clear. But the same study that shows this says that there is one essentially happy group, and that is adults, middle, upper middle class adults with family and religion. That's the one exception to the rule of that is dominant in our time of the unhappiness dominant in the country. That is the one. I'm a member of that. That's me. Upper middle class, family, religion. Now you'll say, well, all right, upper middle class, that, that's a big factor. Okay, it certainly is a factor. Not, not because I'm what you'd call wealthy, but because I, I don't have to worry on a day-to-day basis about money. The problem of money is anxiety, unless you are unhealthy and you are a person who is just attracted to money because you have an emptiness in the rest of your life, and so it's filled with a pursuit of money. But otherwise, It's the inner peace that having not to worry about money, that's the great advantage if you have some money. But the major factors, I could prove it, that family and religion, because the middle class that is not upper middle class, if they have family and religion, they're happier too. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
