WHAT IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY? DENNIS PRAGER - 5 YEARS AGO

WHAT IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY? DENNIS PRAGER - 5 YEARS AGO Dennis Prager discusses Social Justice as the country's greatest scurge.    Machine transcript expect errors. Dennis Prager 0:03 if you had to identify a single 0:07 threat to the future of our country above all the others 0:11 what would it be and then others commented as well when the time comes no 0:16 its not Obama it's not 0:19 if if if God forbid President Obama came down with sickness 0:23 nothing would change nothing I believe the greatest threat facing america I 0:28 believe this my entire adult life 0:30 is that we have not passed on what it means to be American to this generation 0:35 you cannot 0:38 lot on me let me make this this is not a a sweep along 0:43 this is meant literally a a society 0:47 does not survive if it does not have a reason 0:50 to survive that's true for individuals 0:53 where there is a while you're there is a house I hate to tell you who said it 0:57 Meacher 0:57 but nevertheless it remains true we have lost the wine the greatest generation 1:03 did not teach 1:05 my generation what americanism 1:08 is its not its fault it wasn't talked 1:12 this goes back 100 years to John Dewey to the importation of European 1:17 professors 1:18 to our universities to a whole host of issues 1:21 the average American who deeply loves this country and even has conservative 1:26 values 1:26 cannot articulate what those values or 1:30 it is no one's fault but that is the greatest threat 1:33 when we understand this american Trinity in God We Trust Liberty eap were bassoon 1:39 that is uniquely American it is not European the French preferred for 1:43 attorney today and we build a 1:45 I'm eagerly takes equality we don't is explain my talk 1:50 we believe in equality your birthday money quality your result 1:53 when it is understood what America stands for when it is understood 1:58 that there is a moral dimension to a smaller government 2:03 it is not an economic question it is a moral question 2:06 we give phar-mor charity per capita than Europeans do 2:11 why are we born better no the bigger the government 2:15 the worse the Citizen they are preoccupied in Europe 2:19 with how much time all we will be vacation 2:23 when will they retire these are shellfish questions these are not 2:27 altruistic questions 2:29 show the goodness that america created is jeopardized by are not knowing what 2:35 we stand for 2:36 that's our greatest threat we are our problem the 2:40 yessir I i just want to add a word here 2:44 there will always be a sliver of Americans like Governor Palin's son 2:48 who wielded list and no in their got because at their home life 2:52 or because they're just special that they know that we have to defend freedom 2:58 but the very fact that the united states of america is about to confirm 3:02 to the US Supreme Court a woman who bandit the military from her campus 3:07 gives you an idea up how deep this problem is 3:11 that that is it not disqualifying to democrats 3:15 to democrats that that is not disqualifying 3:18 is a moment of darkness in American history 3:21 I would 3:25 obviously I'm completely in agreement with the governor and my colleague 3:29 I would just at that height I have never said this so I have good 3:34 credentials to say this now Chris up it's common for commentators to say 3:38 every collection 3:40 this is the most important election in American history or in our time 3:44 I never said that with except with regard to one 3:47 with regard to out Bush to 3:51 term to because if we had let if we had fled 3:55 iraq up be consequences in the world 3:58 through the ascendance above evil are were 4:01 were too frightening to imagine so are you 4:05 only said this once before it was a presidential election this is not a 4:08 presidential election 4:10 and is the most important in modern American history this november 4:14 this this is this november 4:17 is a referendum on what we want America to be 4:21 it is nothing short of that and there was one party that stands for america's 4:26 values 4:26 thats and it has nothing to do with patriotism and I'm not attacking 4:30 patriotic fervor love America 4:32 it has nothing to do with that you can love America 4:36 and be awful American it is you can beat you could love your children and be an 4:41 awful parent 4:42 okay I these things have to be spelled out to the left because 4:46 date they like to distort everything that we say 4:49 so the issue was not are you a wonderful wonderful person 4:52 or love America the issue is you have different values 4:56 that America was founded up and this is a referendum 5:00 this november that is why you must work your tails off as we are working our 5:04 tails off 5:05 if we do not change both houses 5:09 we lose that is how important it is let me 5:14 close this portion of our program by calling on each of our speakers in the 5:18 same order as they were introduced to begin 5:21 beginning with Dennis Prager Dennis okay 5:29 folks Abraham Lincoln said that the United States is the last best hope for 5:34 for the for Earth that's the way he put it or we will often say 5:37 for mankind up it will not be the last best hope for mankind 5:43 if it becomes like western europe nobody has ever said Norway is the last best 5:48 hope for mankind 5:49 is that fair to say this is I'm and I know will be attacked is a time 5:53 Norwegian because anything that we say is race-based 5:56 so with with the risk of being considered anti Scandinavian in my 6:02 essence 6:02 may I say that nobody says Sweden Norway or Denmark 6:07 I is the last best hope of mankind nor have they ever 6:10 that they said that since 1603 about friends 6:13 and so it is only been said about the United States 6:18 this is this is the force for good on this earth 6:21 it is not peace activists 6:24 that liberated auschwitz its military people who will 6:28 who liberated auschwitz the last 6:35 the left has everything wrong everything wrong 6:39 and that is what this battle is about me to her role at battle but we have to win 6:44 we have to do with based on the knowledge up what we are and what we 6:48 have to retain 6:49 this being the last best hope for mankind do we want to be 6:53 the leftist don't wanna be the president was asked do you believe in American 6:56 exceptionalism you know what is it sure wasn't sure many have you know it 6:59 he said I believe in American exceptionalism the way a Brit believes 7:02 in British exceptionalism 7:04 and the way in which a Greek believes in Greek exceptionalism but creeks don't 7:08 believe in Greek exceptionalism 7:10 they don't except in exceptional ability to Germany to bail them out of their 7:14 problems 7:15 that's on except that's exceptional I must admit but nobody 7:20 you realize what that answer means it means we are not 7:23 exceptional that's what this battle is about 7:27 is this a great a human experiment orchestrated 7:31 and finally do we trust the United States to 7:35 increase good on earth or the united nations to increase good 7:39 on earth the left believes that the UN is a greater force for good in the 7:44 United States 7:45 the United Nations just elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women 7:50 do you know what this was the first time in 28 years a broadcasting 7:56 I could not think of an absurd analogy because you can't 7:59 out absurd what happened at the UN 8:02 their to elect iraq I can only imagine maybe they will 8:08 maybe the only thing I could imagine the Iranian delegate 8:11 to the UN Commission on the Status of Women speaking about 8:15 is a new collar a fail that Iran 8:19 will be inaugurating and that will be and upgrading the status of a running in 8:23 women 8:24 we are not only allowing black veils but gray 8:27 and blue as well I meet this is a country that tortures women who run away 8:33 from their homes because they don't wanna marry 8:35 demand that their parents set them up with at the age of eleven 8:38 and they are on the status the Commission on women 8:41 who is the greater good on earth the US or the UN 8:45 I hope this invigorates you for the greatest fight 8:48 in our history thank you the