That's why I am scared about governmental power. The government's ability to do evil is infinitely greater that it's ability to do good. That's the single greatest problem with the Republican party. The Republican party has a terrible dilemma. The Democrats promise everything. Republicans promise not to do everything. In and of itself, it's a terrible dilemma. "We Democrats will give you everything." "We Republicans will only enable you to do things, but you will have to do it." Who gets your vote? It's a serious problem that Republicans have, because constitutionally, we don't believe that government can solve your problems.  Many Americans have come to believe, "Hey just take this card and bring it any where you want, you'll be taken care of." When our President did that it was quintessential democratic talk. Take this card and life's problems end. That's, in effect, what was being sold. And Americans are buying that more and more. This is a frightening development; this will be a calamity.

Therefore, number one, the great battle is the individual, the evil comes from within, not from outside.  That's number one.

Number two. As a result of this belief in human goodness, there is, on the other side a tremendous
emphasis on feelings.  As Dennis Prager says, feelings have become, in America, the most important thing.  He talks to young people all over America; they are very big on feelings. Dennis learned this when he asked the following question, and he had been asking it for fifteen years to high school seniors, ask your own if you know any. Would you save your dog or a stranger first if both were drowning. In every instance in fifteen years, every instance, one third vote for the dog, one third for the stranger, one third find the question too difficult. Now, in every single instance, what is most important is, he asked the ones who won't vote for the person, "Why not?" Either the ones who don't know, or the ones who actually would vote for their dog, and I get the following answer: "I feel for my dog. I love my dog. I don't feel for the stranger."

Like Dennis, I think we have raised a generation of Americans to believe that all action emanates from feelings. Feelings are what matter. How do you feel about it?. That is the question left of center. How do you feel about it? And when you say "You're wrong,"  I will reply to anyone,  "You're  wrong,  that is wrong, it is a wrong position;  human beings are more valuable than animals."  They look at me as if a fascist has entered the room. "How dare you tell us our feelings are wrong." Feelings is the new American religion.  But I tell them, "Hey all of you, (men and women, whatever I will call them) you know, I have two dogs and I love them more than I love anyone in this room." I tell you very straight out: I don't know you, I don't love you. I do love both my dogs more than any of you. But, if you should be so lucky as to have to drown, you should best do it around me. The reason being, I will save any of you before I will save the dog I love. I honor my feelings, but I don't live in accord with them.  And don't say to me, "Well it all depends..."  Because when you're drowning, I'm going to pluck you out of the water, not my dog.

I think the feeling-based America is a dangerous thing.  Feelings are not noble. People feel for other
spouses. That's fine. But to sleep with other spouses is not fine. That is the way of life. We don't teach that to kids, we teach feelings based. I'll give you my classic example. When Dennis' oldest son was two years old, he was in a park in Los Angeles. A five year old boy, total stranger, comes over and throws him on the ground. That's not the story, the story is the five year old's mother's reaction. She comes over, she's distraught. And what does she say to her five year old, who is practicing to be a Nazi? She says to him: "What's troubling you darling?"  Whenever he tell this story, he sights the following: "I never met this woman in my life. I know nothing about her. But of one thing I am absolutely certain, she went to graduate school. The reason I am certain she went to graduate school, is because in graduate school in America, where the liberals have their temples, that is
where you learn that feelings are more important than behavior. You honor the feelings."  (I couldn't agree more, Dennis). So yes, he threw a child on the ground. Those of us who didn't attend graduate school in psychology would actually yell at our child, would be furious at our child if he or she threw a baby on the floor. But if you go to Stanford, you learn differently. You learn something must be troubling the little boy.  Now it may very well be that something is troubling the little boy. But only in an inverted moral world, do I care. I am certain something troubled Hitler.  I have no doubt something troubled him. That is of very little interest to me. I was much more interested in shooting Hitler,  than I was in understanding what troubled him. And I mean this utterly sincerely; there is a totally different world view. If people are basically good, if your kid is a bully, then clearly something is troubling him.

But I am not interested in what's troubling him. You may be, your parent may be. I am interested in stopping him. You don't care how I feel, you care how I act. I don't care how any of you feel, maybe your parents do, maybe your kids do and your shrink does. No one else in the world cares a damn how you feel. All we care is how you act. The primacy of behavior has been lost and everything is understanding. The LA Times, after the riots in my city, five days straight, whole section, "Understanding the Rage." Hey, you don't think white skin heads have rage? Ku Klux Klanners don't have rage. How come we don't understand their rage? Why is a white who burns down a Turkish home in Germany a fascist, but a black who burns down a Korean home in LA, a victim?