Dennis Left the Democratic Party When Reagan Said THIS | Fireside Chat | PragerU

Ronald Reagan actually had a had a profound impact on me directly uh I was a Democrat uh uh I was registered as a Democrat until the the Reagan presidency and and he caused me uh to a know why I I differed with the Democratic party substantially and and with even with liberalism although I hold most liberal values to this day but liberals don't hold liberal values they tend to hold leftist values which they have nothing in common but he said something this is actually it's very relevant to Prager youu I'll tell you why he said something in one sentence that changed my outlook and that's when I I left the Democratic party for good and he said government what does it just say government is not the solution it is the problem I think that's more or less what he said and it it hit me like a thunderbolt because I realized oh my God is that true I mean he didn't mean it so much this way he was talking about big government America and I'll come back to that or in any country but I realized because I have been obsessed with good and evil all of my life and the amount of evil in the 20th century 100 million non-combatants killed billions enslaved in totalitarian regimes and it was all done by big governments big government makes a lot of evil possible I know liberals and leftists all think big government is such a beautiful thing but it's not it's factually not a beautiful thing now of course we need government I I don't know anyone who denies that except an anarchist and I never met a real Anarchist but big government means a lot of power in the hands of a few people and I don't trust people with a lot of power so uh Reagan loved America and he radiated an optimism about the country and why did I say that this is relevant to Prager youu I'm often asked we're often asked you think you could change somebody's mind in five minutes because all our videos are five minutes and I think hey my life was changed in one sentence not five minutes and that makes perfect sense when you hear an idea and if you actually reflect on it and it makes sense yeah that's going to in that's going to affect you you don't even need five minutes