Dennis Prager discusses why people's voting choices often contradict their personal values. He notes that many academics criticize mid-century values like marrying before having children, yet live by them. This micro-macro gap explains why good people support imperfect leaders when their political choices align with their stated principles.
All right, Ty in San Antonio, I trust we got you clearer now. Go ahead.
Yes, sir. Um, you know, when you talk about micro and macro values, there are a couple of things that comes to mind and it's, it's, does a person walk it like they talk it? Um, you would be surprised how many people aren't willing to actually vote the same type of values that they govern their lives with. And I think that that's how largely we have got ourselves into things like full-term abortion and different conversations like that, because people will go to the ballot booth and they will vote a societal standard that they would never adhere to themselves.
You know, forgive me because there's so little time, that is a great point. The, uh, my relatives, except for my immediate family, that is my two sons, my relatives generally, uh, are liberal, not left, but liberal, and almost always vote Democrat. And one of the things I don't, I don't like to argue with my relatives, I'd rather just love them up. But one of my phrases to them is, "Why don't you preach what you practice?" They live conservative lives, but they vote sort of the opposite of what they live. It's an odd thing. So if you say, as Amy Wax at the University of Pennsylvania Law School did, "Why don't we just teach these middle-class values from the '50s, these bourgeois values like get married before you have kids, she was called a racist, even though all these professors live that, or nearly all of them. They got married before they had kids. Anyway, this division is a very important one to understand things, and it explains why good people should have no problem in supporting a president who may not be as good as they think they are.
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