Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

From this week’s episode of Dennis and Julie, “White Lies and Dark Thoughts”

22 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from the Dennis and Julie podcast, Dennis Prager argues that both liberals and left‑leaning progressives share the belief that government provision of care will make people happy. He contends that this view is a projection of their own preferences, ignoring the universal human aversion to dependence. Prager frames dependence on others as a nightmare that intensifies with age, while suggesting that self‑reliance is the true source of happiness. The segment juxtaposes the progressive dream of being taken care of with the inherent human desire for autonomy, positioning the progressive stance as contradictory to basic human nature.

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The assumption is among the both liberals and leftists— in this case they think similarly, most cases they don't, they just vote similarly— that if the government takes care of you, you'll be happy. They're projecting their view of what makes a human happy, whereas there's no comparison in the happiness of people who take care of themselves and who are taken care of, right? Isn't the nightmare of every human being who gets older, I don't want to be dependent upon others? So why is that the dream of every progressive on earth? I want to be taken care of. You want to be taken care of. It's the nightmare of people being taken care of.