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

USA is Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian

26 Jan 2021 · 2 min

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In this excerpt from Dennis Prager's YouTube monologue, he recounts a Russian‑born member of his synagogue who fled the Soviet Union and now watches the United States with disbelief as it appears to be turning into a regime resembling the one he escaped. Prager laments that the political left opposes "normal life" and criticizes a New York Times column he deems alarmist. He argues that the nation is moving away from "fossil‑fueled capitalism" toward a forced "green‑energized" economy, echoing David Horowitz's claim that environmentalists are "watermelons"—green on the outside, red on the inside. The overall tone is a passionate, critical rant warning of an authoritarian drift in America.

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There is a member of my synagogue who came from Russia. He and his wife, Soviet Union. Two of the most wonderful people I've ever known. Living Water knows them too. And he is watching with incredulity that the sweet land of liberty that he fled to is becoming like the country he fled. It's— he's probably thinking he'll wake up and it will all have been a dream. And I wish that too. I would like this to have been a dream. You understand, the left does not want normal life. Normal life is not exciting to them. This, this is a crazed man, a crackpot, writing in the New York Times that I read to you. It's up at the— it's up at the— yeah, there you go, putting a column that I can't stand up at the website. You can enjoy it yourself how terrible things are. And so we cannot go back to the new— what was it? Fossil-fueled capitalism. So notice this. What was the capitalism part? You mean we won't have green-fueled, green-energized capitalism? See, that's really— that's what David Horowitz said in the beginning. The environmentalists are watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.