Fireside Chat Ep. 285 — Crime, Looting, and Fatherlessness | Fireside Chat

Hi everybody, welcome to the fireside chat What number are we up to do we even know? 285 that is not megan's voice. It's not megan's arm Yes Where is megan? She's on vacation. It's true. She is she is taking a vacation. That is so wrong Oh I'm speaking to hr as soon as possible Hi everybody, dennis prager the fireside chat I get to talk to you about what's on my mind you get to ask me What's on your mind? It's totally unscripted Part of its appeal otto was not here. We tried to we even bribed him with food So what did he do? He ate the food and then left This is just wrong. It's morally wrong But the conscience of a of an animal is is not highly developed But don't think that's anti-animal the conscience of most people is not highly developed too All right, we'll leave that for now. I've done a major video for prager you on the conscience so there's been a lot of looting and rioting especially in chicago and But it's all over in every major metropolitan city virtually And just this past weekend made hundreds of kids in chicago And just uh, then again a night or two later stomping on cars burning a car Brashing people's car windows in and then this massive looting of walmart. That was chicago too, right? Yeah and I'd like to address that Brandon johnson the mayor elect of chicago a man of the left not a liberal a man of the left Came out with a statement that he doesn't want us to demonize the youth because they're really lacking opportunities And said after the 2020 riots that look people don't have enough to eat. And anyway, why don't we condemn corporations for looting? the american citizens Because they make profits and thereby they're looting. Look the man the man is a marxist And that is how they look at it Economics explains everything so Crime causes poverty when I heard that This is a personal statement My thinking about life began in earnest in in the beginning of high school I started thinking about everything And I didn't know left right liberal conservative I if you'd have asked me the question, I would have said i'm a liberal. I was a democrat After all, I was a jew in new york. So what am I going to be? a republican As i've often said in new york They don't any longer have sex fixed on your birth certificate they have party as fixed democrat You you can transition to the other sex, but you better not transition to republican that Is not acceptable in any event I began thinking And the first clue I read this I I remember it vividly the first clue that I was not on the left Though I never thought I was conservative or republican until later the first clue I had As to what I was Was that I was not I guess What would I have thought I was not a marxist or a or a communist? Well, certainly not communist So I might have thought it's clear i'm not I don't know if I would have used the term leftist as opposed to liberal which I do today. I contrast liberalism and leftism But in any event, I realized I was not on I was not a person of the left I was about 14 And I heard the phrase poverty causes crime And I remember thinking My grandparents on my father's side are impoverished. They really were He he supported them to the period period without money from my dad. I don't know what they would have done They were quite I mean they were really poor and I I remember thinking It's inconceivable to me that my grandfather would go out and rape or mug or hold up a bank or shoot somebody The thought was so preposterous And that is that is how I figured out that there's something wrong with the phrase poverty causes crime Because I knew poor people Who would never commit that crime now now why why is that why wouldn't my grandfather I mean, it's silly to speak of my grandmother's not gonna go out and do any of those things So we'll talk about because men tend to do these things So Why wouldn't he I kept thinking? And that was the opening of my mind to the power of religion Not that Secular grandparents would necessarily have done it but I knew that his being in our case a religious jew It was inconceivable that he would do that Because I mean among other things he believed as I do, but he believed god said do not steal Simple it wasn't a negotiable issue God the creator of the universe the master of the universe Said in the 10 commandments do not steal that would have been enough anyway, that was my first inkling and now when I hear the the mayor-elect of chicago We can't demonize these kids because they're lacking economic opportunities uh, and and all of these marxist arguments Reducing the human being to an economics machine homo Economist is the way I think they put it the economic human Well, first of all, it's an interesting thing. Don't demonize these kids. What he really means is don't even criticize them What does it mean demonize? Is anybody saying they're demonic? Okay, I mean that's so obviously he didn't mean it literally he meant it really, you know Don't even call them any names What they need is more opportunity. That's what he said. They need more opportunities They're they're looting and they're burning cars and jumping up and down on cars and and uh Ripping apart a whole walmart because they lack opportunities And what what I don't know what those opportunities are. I'll tell you what they lack they lack And If you if you you have gone to college what i'm about to say you will probably reject immediately Because a brainwash takes place it starts in high school, but it it's more conscious in college And i'll say it because it's true even though I I realize how Much people will reject it on its face They lack fathers on earth And they lack a father in heaven If you've got both a father on earth And a father in heaven The chances of your joining a mob to loot a store burn cars Periodically even beat somebody up Are close to zero Nothing is zero There are kids with with a father in their life and a father in heaven who do it but that doesn't mean anything it's If you're born with four fingers, it doesn't mean that the human being doesn't have five fingers We don't use the rare exceptions to make any points So whenever I hear guns guns, by the way guns played no role in these riots, right? They did a lot of damage without guns. It's true. They didn't kill anybody Although two people were shot in in the uh in the weekend or the the sunday night I mean, it's hard to keep up. It's almost daily now in chicago Whenever I hear uh, the issue is guns. So here's a great question to ask yourself And to ask anyone in your life and do it if you do it do it gently and respectfully I'm, just curious you tell your relative on the left I'm, just curious Which do you think would have a a better effect on lowering violence? More gun laws or more fathers It's a great question to ask Okie doke on to your Questions, by the way, I want to remind you that we strongly urge you to watch The fireside chat at prager you directly go to prager u.com and then subscribe And or get the app and then watch this regularly there Because we are afraid that one day youtube will just Google owns it. 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