Dennis Prager took to the stage Tuesday at AmericaFest 2023 in an effort to explain the current era in which we live.
“There’s no way of denying this is the darkest era in American history outside of the civil war,” Prager said. “Once the Civil War was over, while there were terrible residues of anti-black legislation in the South, nevertheless the country ultimately united. But the country has never been as disunited as it is today. We live in different moral universes.”
Prager said if you know someone who believes men can give birth or menstruate, it is likely every person in the auditorium would also know their position on Hamas.
“Now isn’t that interesting,” he said. “To be a little direct — what the hell does a man giving birth have to do with being pro-Hamas?”
Prager proclaimed the Left must be distinguished from liberals. But the “tragedy of America” is the fact liberals vote for the Left.
The moral compass of those on the Left, Prager said, is “deliberately broken.” Their moral compass set for the north is actually always showing south and the same with east and west.
He ran through a list of examples:
Women who object to men who say they are women competing in women’s sports are called haters.
“Do you understand how that is north/south, east/west,” he asked. “The idea that a man who says he is a woman can compete in women’s sports is a broken — deliberately broken — moral compass. And that’s an example again — if you say that men can compete in women’s sports if they say they’re a woman, you are overwhelmingly likely to be pro-Hamas.”
Adults who object to schools allowing 5-year-olds to participate in drag queen performances are declared haters. The teachers who take children to drag events are considered “enlightened.”
“Irrespective of what you think of drag queens — you may think they are the greatest thing existing — but a child doesn’t belong there,” Prager said. “And again, if you believe that a child should be exposed to drag queen story hours, you are overwhelmingly likely to be pro-Hamas.”
The idea that there should be all-black dorms on college campuses and those are good for blacks and good for America and good for the value system in the country are also likely to believe Hamas is right and Israel is wrong.
“An all-black dormitory is racism — pure undiluted racism,” he said. “There are only two groups in America who believe in all-black dorms and all-black graduations — progressives/the Left and the Ku Klux Klan.”
Anybody who believes open borders are moral and those wanting closed borders are xenophobic also displays such a broken compass. Those individuals also likely believe Hamas is a hero and Israel is a villain.
“A country has to have borders just like a house has borders,” Prager said.
He wondered why people on the Left never confront their own value system. We are for open borders, he said, but if these illegal immigrants are brought to their sanctuary cities they cry.
“New York City is a sanctuary city, but don’t you dare bring any of the people that we want to give sanctuary to into our city,” Prager said. “You know who believes that makes sense? Professors.”
That encompasses the problem with modern-day universities.
It also applies to the idea America is systemically racist. Four million black people have moved to the US via legal immigration in the past few decades, Prager said.
“Are these people stupid? Would you move to a country that you knew hated you because of your race, color or religion? Of course not,” he said. “Did any Jews move to Germany in the 19302? The question is absurd.”
Prager asked why Leftists don’t stand in airports and warn any black people arriving in America that the country is systemically racist and hates them.
“This black African would look at that person and say, ‘Are you out of your mind? Do you know what in Africa we know how wonderful America is? You don’t know because you went to an American university.”
People who believe voter ID is racist likely support Hamas, even though every democracy on earth has voter ID, according to Prager.
“How on earth could that possibly be racist? ‘Sir, ma’am, before you vote we’d like to make sure that you are the person on this list.’ Why is that bad? Why is that wrong? Why is that racist? It’s racist to say it is racist. The implication is it’s too hard for a black to figure out how to get an ID,” Prager said.
Believing that fewer police will make a city safer likely indicates support for Hamas, which Prager said is only the latest and most grotesque example of the morally sick world of the Left.
“Fewer cops means more crime, not less crime,” he said. “Isn’t that obvious in Portland and San Francisco and Chicago and Philadelphia? I mean, isn’t it obvious?”
Yet all of those ideas are taught as truths at colleges. So too is a contempt for marriage. Prager said men need women and women need men.
Had he said that at a conference of Leftists, Prager said he would’ve been booed.
“You cheered, they would boo.” he said. “Do you understand the gulf between the Left and Right in the United States?”
More young women in America today are depressed than at any time since they started to measure depression in women.
“It’s all thanks to left-wing, horrible advice,” he said. “Marriage is unnecessary, it is the creation of patriarchy, it’s a misogynist institution. Your happiness in life is going to come from a career.”
He recalled a 50-60-year-old woman who once called into his radio show. She said she had a Ph.D., a career and a dog, but she comes home to a house without a husband and without a child.
“‘I bought the feminist lie and I deeply regret it,'” Prager said she said. “The feminist movement doesn’t give a damn about women and the proof, in case you need proof, is that they don’t come to bat for women in protecting women’s sports. They’re quiet.”
The University of Penn’s Department of English removed a mural of William Shakespeare because he was a dead, white, European male.
Not being able to tell the difference between Israel and Hamas would be like living in the 1930s and not being able to tell the difference between England and Germany, Prager said. But people can tell a difference, and here is how…
“If Israel announced they are laying down their arms and they will fight no longer, what would happen,” he asked. “And if Hamas and the Palestinians said they are laying down their arms and they will fight no more, what would happen? Well, we know what would happen. The day after Israel would announce Israelis would be wiped off the face of the earth. And the day after Hamas would make that announcement there would be peace in the Middle East.”
It is imperative that patriots fight and refuse to get down, Prager said.
