By John Gaudio,
Please listen to one of our national treasures, Dennis Prager, as he responds to Former United States Senator Bill Armstrong's question. "If you had to identify a single threat to the future of our country, above all the others, what would it be?"
In summary, Dennis said:
No It's not Obama. It's not. I believe the greatest threat facing America, I've believed this my whole adult life, is that we have not passed on what it means to be American to this generation.
A society does not survive if it does not have a reason to survive. The greatest generation did not teach my generation what Americanism is. This goes back 100 years, to John Dewey, to the importation of European professors, to our universities. The average American who deeply loves this country and even has conservative values cannot articulate what those values are. That is the greatest threat.
When we understand this American Trinity, In God We Trust, Liberty, E Pluribus Unum. That is uniquely American. We believe in equality of birth but not equality of result. When it is understood what America stands for, when it is understood that there is a moral dimension to a smaller government, it is not an economic question it is a moral question. We give far more charity per capita than Europeans do. Why, are we born better? No. The bigger the government the worse the citizen. They are preoccupied in Europe with "How much time off?" "Where will they vacation?" "When will they retire?" These are selfish questions, these are not altruistic questions. So the goodness that America created is jeopardized by our not knowing what we stand for. That's our greatest threat. We are our problem.
There will always be a sliver of Americans like Governor Palin's son who will enlist and know in their gut, because of their home life, or because they're just special, that they know that we have to defend freedom. But the very fact that the United States of America is about to confirm to the U.S. Supreme Court, a woman who banned the military from her campus, gives you an idea of how deep this problem is. That that is not disqualifying to Democrats... is a moment of darkness in American history.
This is not a presidential election, and is the most important in modern American history. This November is a referendum on what we want America to be. It is nothing short of that, and there is one party that stands for America's values, and it has nothing to do with patriotism and I'm not attacking patriotic fervor or love of America. It has nothing to do with that. You can love America and be an awful American. You can love your children and be an awful parent. The issue is not are you a wonderful wonderful person, or love America. The issue is you have different values than America was founded on.
This is a referendum this November. That is why you must work your tails off, as we are working our tails off. If we do not change both houses, we lose. That is how important it is.
Abraham Lincoln said that the United States is the last best hope for earth, that's the way he put it, or we often say for mankind. It will not be the last best hope for mankind if it becomes like Western Europe. It has only been said about the Untied States. This is the force for good on this earth. It is not peace activists that liberated Auschwitz; it is military people who liberated Auschwitz.
The left has everything wrong, and that is what this battle is about, and it's a heroic battle, but we have to win. We have to do it based on the knowledge of what we are and what we have to retain. This being the last best hope for mankind. The president was asked "Do you believe in American exceptionalism?" He said "I believe in American exceptionalism the way a Brit believes in British exceptionalism and the way in which a Greek believes in Greek exceptionalism." Do you realize what that answer means? It means we are not exceptional. That's what this battle is about. Is this a great human experiment or isn't it? And finally, do we trust the United States to increase good on earth, or the United Nations to increase good on earth?
The Left believes that the U.N. is a greater force for good than the United States. The United Nations just elected Iran to the commission on the status of women. Do you know this was the first time in twenty eight years of broadcasting I could not think of an absurd analogy, because you can't out absurd what happened at the U.N. To elect Iran.... This is a country that tortures women who run away from their homes because they don't want to marry the man that their parents set them up with at the age of eleven. And they are on the status of the commission on women?
Who is the greater good on earth, the U.S., or the U.N.? I hope this invigorates you for the greatest fight in our history. Thank you. | 
