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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom - Why Do People Become Leftist?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

To get the ad-free version of this podcast, and to access the full library of lectures, talks, and shows, visit dennisprager.com.

On Today’s Show: 

Dennis Prager examines the psychological, social, and cultural factors that lead many to embrace leftist ideas, questioning what truly drives political affiliation beyond policy positions.

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Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.

0:34.9

Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,

0:39.3

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0:42.0

go to Dennis Prager.com.

0:49.3

I want to talk to you about something that has preoccupied me. Those of you who know me know that I

1:00.1

always ask why. And why helps a tremendous amount. After all, that why explains life, answers to the question, why.

1:13.3

I am preoccupied with it, and in every arena, I want to know, forgive the analogy again,

1:21.2

I know that had I been on the Titanic, I would want to know why we were sinking. I would go

1:25.9

crazy, both I would be so sad about

1:29.0

probably drowning, but I'd also be crazed to know how did this happen to an impregnable ship.

1:35.9

Why did it happen? Why just, if the world doesn't make sense to me i get uh... i feel bad

1:44.9

it is not the reality as much as the confusion why i wrote many years ago in

1:49.8

in my late twenties early thirties

1:52.4

a book called why the jews

1:54.9

uh... subtitled the reason for anti-semitism

1:58.0

the world didn't need another book uh... giving the history of anti-Semitism, but there was no book, to my belief anyway, and my co-author, Joseph Tolushkin, that explained it.

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