Prager At His Best

Dennis Prager, on 4/17/21, on Facebook, played an excerpt of one of his Fireside chats; it was poignant and brilliant. Here is what he wrote in the title: "A person given great power WILL MISUSE IT. Human nature is not good and people need to know it." Here is the title of his snippet: "Why We Must Resist Globalism." Here is Dennis's motto and my notes on his video: "The bigger the government the smaller the citizen. America is the only country founded on the belief that government should be small. This core belief made America uniquely successful, uniquely free, uniquely opportunity-giving to so many people from so many backgrounds. The reason the Founders of United States feared Big Government because they knew human nature. And human nature is not good. There is good in human nature, but human nature is not basically good. Therefore, why give a lot of power to a creature that is not that good? You don't want people to have a lot of power over other people. They will misuse it. Lord Acton in the 19th century said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You don't want to give a handful of people power over a lot of people. Who is powerful? From the Talmud 1800 years ago: Who is the powerful man? He is the one that conquers his own nature. If you can control you, you are powerful. If you can control me, you are an autocrat a tyrant, a dictator. . . . The Left wins because they tell the voters: Give us power and we give you goodies. Conservatives say we want less power, so we give you less goodies. People vote for those that give them goodies. People are not good, but Mavellonialist training to self-discipline and self-realize will help them to become powerful citizens seeking no government goodies, no power over others, and insisting that no tyrant will rule them, even if they have to rebel and take up arms. Collectivist, groupists and altruist make up poor citizens that grow government and tyranny. We will work against that fateful change.