The Great Divide

Dennis Prager summarized well the great divide between Communists and everyone else in a recent broadcast:

So, what the Left has done is said [with respect to being unarmed], “It’s a crap-shoot. Whether you die from a bullet, whether you die by a bullet from a monster’s gun, or whether you do not, is a crap-shoot. It’s a roulette wheel, and there is zero you can do about it. Zero! You can call the police, who can then ceremoniously take your body away and put yellow tape around the area where you were murdered or blinded or brain-damaged or paralyzed.” That’s the Left-wing position.

The idea … see, it’s not guns. Let’s be honest. It’s about the idea that “I will take care of myself, and the state won’t.” This is the great divide. “Are you a nothing, or are you a something?” is the great divide between Left and Right. You are a nothing in the Left’s view. Nothing! You will not teach your children. You will not feed your children. The state will do both. The state will take your body away. You will not defend yourself or your family or your friends or your strangers, as in the case of Elisjsha Dicken.

“The bigger the state, the smaller the citizen” is something I said many years ago, and it is exactly apt in this case! “You are a nothing!” [in the Left’s view]; in the American vision you are everything. [The truth is that] the state is close to nothing [and] you are something. You have the dignity of defending yourself and family and strangers.

Not on the Left, [which says,] “We will even drive you where you need to go.” The idea that “You are independent and have a car to go anywhere you want, anywhere you go, anywhere you want, any time you want.” is anathema to the Left. And people are fine with it! Half the people vote for being controlled. [The Left says,] “You will determine nothing about your life. You will be obedient.” That’s what it’s about, my friends. That’s what it’s about.

And, you know what? Human nature leans towards obedience to strength. Not obedience to God. Obedience to strength. To mortal power. That is the human predilection. That’s the reason for the [Left’s] antipathy to guns. By you having a gun, you are saying, “I am not relying on the state to protect me.”

The Dennis Prager Show, 20220721, Hour 1