Here we are. It is a Monday, and it is the Monday of Christmas week, and I have the best Christmas gift ever for you. It's me. I'm here. And I wish so much to talk about. We're going to go over the Democratic debate. Donald Trump and Jeb Bush get into it again. Plus, we will talk Star Wars, spoiler-free Star Wars, and some stuff I like, some stuff I hate, lots to get to here today. I'm Ben Shapiro. So this is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tends to demonize people who. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Tends to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.

Alrighty, so here we are, and it is Monday.

And we'll start with a little bit of Star Wars commentary.

Now, there will be no spoilers here because I haven't

seen the film, but I do want to talk briefly about something that drives me a little bit insane,

which is, of course, the essence of the entire show, things that drive me insane. But

there was an article that I saw about a church that was holding some event celebrating the

force. And I thought to myself, we're finished as a civilization.

Not only because there are so many people who worship at the altar of Star Wars, okay, great

movies.

I love the originals.

I love the originals so much that when my younger sister was born and my parents got to,

they asked me what I thought her middle name should be because I really wanted a younger brother and it was a sister. And I said that they should make her middle name Leia, which it is, right? That's how much I liked the Star Wars films. But the morality of the force is really, really screwed up. It's really skewed and it's really screwed up. So if you remember the original Star Wars films, and this is why I don't worship at the altar of the morality of Star Wars.

The original Star Wars films, they're based on the idea that hate and rage are the dark side of the force,

and Happy Dapidoo is the light side of the force.

If you give in to hate, if you give in to rage, then you will have given into the dark side.

Which is, of course, why the light side gets his ass kicked, right? At the beginning of episode four, the two most powerful people in the universe are a frog that lives in a swamp and an old guy who lives in a cave, right? Those are the two most powerful people in terms of the force, except for the emperor, right, who shoots lightning out of his fingers, and Darth Vader, who, as you recall, had all of his limbs chopped off by the guy

who lives in the cave. So Darth Vader, the guy who lost that fight, right? That guy now runs

entire starships and huge planetary doom machines. And the guy who chopped off all of his limbs

with one swipe of his lightsaber, that guy lives in a cave waiting for Luke Skywalker to walk around, right? So the bottom line is the idea here is that if you use force in defense of good, there is something inherently wrong with it. This has always been the sort of conflict within Star Wars that doesn't really work. And that is that really in order to defeat evil, you have to fight it. And you see this at the end of Return of the Jedi. Jeremy Boring, managing

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