Dennis Prager on America’s Age of Moral Confusion

Marissa Streit (0:02)

Hi, Dennis, it's hard to believe that it's already October, and we'd love to hear your thoughts.

Dennis Prager (0:07)

I, uh, I don't know if you know this story. It happened in May. Two women, two young women, on the New York subway were attacked by a guy, and luckily for them, and happily, uh, the, uh, New York City police department showed up in time to save them.

When it came time to prosecute the guy, one of the women, uh, who was, spoke for both of them, said, we're not cooperating with the prosecution because we don't want to send another black man to prison. The guy was sent to a hospital, a mental hospital, let out an hour later, and a few hours later, threw an old man down the steps at a New York subway station and murdered him. That's one story. Here's a story from a few years ago that I think about a lot.

It's, I guess, if it's possible, it's even more dramatic. And that is a young German woman was sexually assaulted by an illegal immigrant from a Muslim country, and she refused to testify against him because she didn't want Germans to have a bad impression of immigrants from Muslim countries. She was the daughter of a major German official at the EU, the European Union. There is so much to unpack in these stories. And I could give example after example.

You know, all the women who have been demonstrating on behalf of Lindsay Clancy, for example. The fact is that women's inclination is toward compassion and nurturing. Men's is towards justice.

That's a very big difference. Justice is a masculine value, and nurturing is a feminine value. We need both. But when it's tipped over, way over in one direction. Look, the other example is all the children's hospitals that have done terrible surgeries on minors or young adults who say that they're a member of the opposite sex. It's mind-blowing. It's just mind-blowing. And it's almost all women in these children's hospitals and in the whole movement, the whole transgender movement, even when it hurts women. Now, why would women support men, biological men, playing in women's sports? It hurts women because it's not just, and justice is a masculine value. As I just said, women are in the forefront of hurting women, let alone an old man in the New York subway.

So those are signs of our times. The bigger point is that we live in the age of moral confusion. And it's getting really, really frightening. And I don't get scared easily, but it is frightening.

But I'll tell you, and this will not win me popularity points, but that's, I'll have to live with that.

Nineteen percent of Americans, according to polls, 19, that's a drop less than one out of five, supports our efforts, our military efforts against Iran. It's not like we're talking about Iraq. This is not thousands of troops, innumerable casualties, Iraqis dying. Do you know, the vast majority, virtually every Iranian that has died by violence in the last half year, was murdered by their regime.

Forty-five thousand were machine-gunned to death. Some were put in burial packets without even dying, and then buried alive. It's a monstrous regime. And then I read constantly, and I got to say, it's disappointing. The price of gas has gone up, not even dramatically. And it's mostly due to states like California, where they've gone up because of taxes. But they've gone up somewhat. And because of that, four-fifths of Americans really believe that depriving Iran of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and the ability to attack America, Europe, and, first of all, Israel, because that's what it really wants to do, destroy Israel. What kind of moral weighing is that?

Nobody's talking about the moral issue. All we hear about is, you know, Bill Clinton's old line, it's the economy's stupid. But it's not just the economy's stupid. I said weeks ago, I believe I said it to you, my first is not America first. My first is morality first. And you would think that every religious Christian would share that with me. Not to mention religious Jews. Morality comes before everything. That's number one. But it's not number one anymore. And I gotta tell you, it's painful. I love this country so much. And it is so painful to see what has happened because of education and the internet and social media. It's, this is really stuff for people to worry about. The age of moral confusion in which we live.

Marissa Streit (8:25)

Dennis, as we speak about morality, you may have watched Bibi Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations, where 77 countries, or at least members of those countries, walked out in the middle of his speech.