Dennis Prager argues that decent voters repeatedly elect corrupt leaders, citing the ANC in South Africa and the Democratic Party in the U.S. He contrasts the American Revolution's focus on liberty with the French Revolution's pursuit of equality, which he says led to violence and oppressive regimes like Maoist China and Stalin's Soviet Union.
South Africa is run by a vicious bunch of thugs, and it made me think about something. Meeting all these truly decent-acting people that I did, I have no idea how they voted. I wasn't going to ask them, "Who do you vote for?" They're having elections in a few weeks, in fact. The ANC is another scummy left-wing radical organization that does nothing for its people and just destroys whatever it touches. And yet they get elected, but so do the Democrats of the United States. You know, it's— if you promise people enough things and convince them that the opposition is fascist Then there are people who fall for this, especially the well-educated and especially, in America's case, women. The male-female gap in elections is greater than it's ever been in American history according to the latest polls. I'll have something to say about that. In the course of time, this notion that I developed as a result of Minnesota Minnesota has a phrase called Minnesota nice. A lot of people in Minnesota are nice. That's meant with no sarcasm whatsoever. It is a sincere statement. A lot of people in Minnesota, a lot of people in the Midwest are nice, certainly nicer than most people in New York City, and for that matter in many big cities, but not all. And I realize nice people can vote viciously. There is— because there is no connection between nice and wise. You can be not nice and wise, and you can be nice and a fool. At least fool on the macro matters, not necessarily in personal matters. So I don't know how— I don't know anything about internal politics of South Africa. I do know that they do elect vile human beings to be their leaders, and they're not vile Like in Minnesota, like in California. California now has a bill that would prohibit CLEAR from working at any California airport if you pay a certain amount of money per year for CLEAR. Because they have all your metrics and your, your eyes contact, you get through very fast. You get through faster than any regular line and even faster than TSA PreCheck. Of course, it's— I'm at the airport on average every week of the year. I, as soon as CLEAR started, I joined. But the Democrats in California have decided that it's unfair to people who don't have the money to spend on clear. So there is a bill before the State Senate Assembly in California to ban clear. It's not fair that some people get ahead of the line. Course, I don't understand why they will allow after that first-class seats on airlines. The poor cannot buy a first-class seat. It's a better seat, it's wider, it's got more legroom. Why should one be allowed to do that? The equality of the French Revolution, as in fraternity, equality, liberty, This notion of equality has produced more death, torture, murder, slaughter than any modern doctrine. More people have been slaughtered in the name of equality than in the name of any other goal, any other ideal. It's a very dangerous idea that everybody should be equal. And I don't mean before God or in worth as a human being. I'm talking about equality of outcome. That is, the American Revolution was about liberty. The French Revolution was about equality. French Revolution led to the slaughter of human beings. The American Revolution led to more freedom for more people than any country in the history of the world. It did not end slavery, not immediately. It took another 100 years. But slavery was universal. Ironically, the egalitarians produce slavery. That's what a citizen of Mao's China was, a slave. A citizen of Stalin's Soviet Union was a slave. A citizen in North Korea is a slave, except for the upper echelons of the Communist Party. It is amazing how few young people are ever taught what a vile doctrine equality is. Not equality of opportunity or equality of worth, obviously. We're talking about equality, economic equality, status equality, all sorts, equality of outcome. I don't know how the ANC gets elected in South Africa, but the notion that nice people elect despicable human beings is not uncommon whatsoever, and it's a phenomenon in the United States when nice people vote Democrat. Of course, they will say the exact same thing, except they wouldn't acknowledge that anybody who voted for Donald Trump could be nice. So they don't have the same dilemma philosophically, as it were, that we do. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
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