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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

Fireside Chat Ep. 278 — If They Can Scare You, They Can Control You

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

PragerU

Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Every tyrannical regime used fear to control its subjects—because that’s the only way people will willingly give up their freedom. And they do. It has happened throughout history and is now happening in the last place it ever should: America. Dennis offers advice and takes some of your questions.

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0:00.0

Well, hello everybody. Welcome to FireSight Chat Number 278.

0:03.6

Yes.

0:04.4

Very nice.

0:05.4

I'm Dennis Prager and it is a chance to just offer you some thoughts about life.

0:10.4

Take your questions.

0:11.9

There is no auto here.

0:13.1

In the last half year, auto has not been the auto, out of the reliable that he was for

0:20.6

four years.

0:22.3

I'm not annoyed with him.

0:25.1

Am I going to get annoyed with the dog?

0:27.8

I mean, it's a little silly.

0:30.7

But it is what it is.

0:33.0

So folks, a thought, a briefer than normal, because we'll have time for more questions

0:39.5

this way, as it turns out, I am in love with liberty.

0:44.4

A lot of people are, not everybody by any means, people prefer to be taken care of,

0:49.1

but then to be free.

0:51.3

That is a fact about human nature, which is unfortunate.

0:55.1

A lot of facts about human nature are unfortunate.

0:59.0

That's another subject and one I've addressed.

1:03.4

So, America is descending into, for the first time in its history, into a form of tyranny.

1:12.4

There's more and more control over what people say, which is the ultimate freedom, the

1:17.8

freedom to say what you want, even about what you think, what you say privately.

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