Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed? | 5 Minute Video

From the Boy Scouts to literature, from the arts to universities: the left ruins everything it touches. Dennis Prager explains.

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Script:

If what I am about to tell you is true, almost everything we most treasure – freedom, beauty, reason, the family, economic well-being, and even goodness – is in jeopardy.

Who or what poses this threat?

The answer is the most powerful ideology of the last hundred years: leftism. Not liberalism; leftism – or, if you prefer, “progressivism.”

Leftism destroys everything it touches.

Here are a just a few examples:

1. The universities
Perhaps the most obvious example – one that many liberals acknowledge – is the left’s near destruction of most universities as places of learning. In the words of Harvard professor Steven Pinker – an atheist and a liberal – because of the left, “universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance.”

At almost every university – and now high schools and even elementary schools – students are taught to shut down – not debate – those who differ with them. And to rely on feelings rather than reason.

2. The arts
Throughout history, the primary purpose of art was to elevate people – through beauty, artistic excellence, and emotional depth. To the left, the primary purpose of art, sculpture, and music is to shock. That’s why so much contemporary art is meaningless, and involves the scatological, meaning urine and feces.

Yes, urine and feces. To give one of countless examples, in 2016, the Guggenheim Museum in New York featured a pure-gold working toilet, which visitors were invited to use. The name of the exhibit was “America" – so one could literally relieve oneself on America.

3. Literature
The English department at the University of Pennsylvania replaced the portrait of the greatest English-language writer who ever lived, William Shakespeare, with a picture of a black lesbian poet. Why? Because he was a white European male. Leftist professors have replaced the pursuit of excellence with the pursuit of diversity.

4. Late-night television
In America, late-night television shows were completely apolitical. The hosts believed their role was to entertain viewers and offer them relief and laughter after a difficult day. No longer. You cannot watch late-night television if you just want to be entertained. Late-night TV is now left-night TV.

5. Religion

The left has ruined much of mainstream Protestantism and Catholicism, and non-Orthodox Judaism, which are now little more than left-wing organizations with religious symbols. In many churches and synagogues, one is more likely to hear the clergy talk about political issues than about any other subject, including even the Bible.

[Ston]

When Feelings overrides Reason the result is Narcissism.

[kaydenchan]

I like how they separate Liberalism and leftism

[KathrineJKozachok]

"America is great because she is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis de Tocqueville

[justingarrity]

Seeing the original over the YTP is so strange.

[SunuAkkad]

And the word "Utopia" is Latin for "No Place". It doesn't exist.

[voiceofexperience]

It's not just America.
The same thing is happening in EVERY Western nation atm.

[hewhositsuponfroggychair]

1:35

YTP makers: "You. You're coming with me."

[scottdevnull]

you missed one, movies. for the past few years every movie has been getting worse and worse, it is even worst with movies like Star Wars, that have been damaged so far I'm not sure it can com back

[Discontinuedalready]

_The left ruined my Minecraft village_

[ellie]

lord forgive what clicking on this video is gonna do to my YouTube recommendations, but I *need* to know what the context of “urine and feces” is

[tricko]

yes, *U R I N E A N D F E C E S*

[chthulu]

As an Eagle Scout, I find the destruction of the Boy Scouts especially heart breaking. I cannot involve my own sons in an institution that gave me so much as a young man. And that's pretty sad.

[darkmoonblade]

The left constantly poisons my pizza rolls

[iProgramInCpp]

"Scatological, which means urine and feces. Yes, urine and feces!"

cracked me up

[westfieldartworks]

Living and growing up in a very Left leaning city, I can tell you that the narrative in this video is unfortunately true.

[dynamostan]

The left destroyed my microwave oven and now I can't make pizza rolls at 2am 😞

[KennedyFinance]

Football, Starbucks, Social Media, Netflix, the Boy Scouts, Roseanne, Pageants, Award Shows, Movies (Oceans 11, Captain Marvel, etc.) It's time for good Americans to peacefully secede from leftists.

[alexandrews]

Utopia is the idea of a perfect world, but it also means that it doesn't exist. Utopian societies in books always reveal to us how this Utopian society boils down to a Dystopia. Ideals aren't reality.

[Milestonemonger]

"Any attempt to pursue equality of outcome is doomed to a totalitarian tilt, because it’s technically impossible to equalize outcomes across all possible identity groups".
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[dedikpurwanto]

When you go far left, there is nothing right.
When you go far right, there is nothing left.