{"id":102449,"date":"2016-07-26T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102449"},"modified":"2016-07-26T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:45:55","slug":"dennis-prager-trumps-speech-wasnt-dark-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102449","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager: Trump\u2019s Speech Wasn\u2019t \u2018Dark\u2019 Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: One of the many remarkable traits of the progressives is their lack of self-awareness.
\nThis trait was on display last week in the media and Democratic Party\u2019s characterization of Donald Trump\u2019s acceptance speech \u2014 and the entire Republican National Convention \u2014 as \u201cdark.\u201d
\nFor the left to dismiss other Americans as having a dark view of America is preposterous.
\nBecause no one \u2014 not Trump, not the Republican Party, not any conservative \u2014 has nearly as dark a view of America as does the left.
\nAcross the board \u2014 from the universities to the media to the Democratic Party \u2014 the left, around the world and in America, has an unremittingly dark view of the United States.
\nHere\u2019s a brief glimpse.
\n\u2013Racism \u201cis part of our (American) DNA,\u201d President Barack Obama said in 2015. Is there anything Trump said in his acceptance speech that is as dark about America as that?
\n\u2013On July Fourth weekend, Vox published a long column arguing \u201c3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.\u201d
\n\u2013The most widely read historian in American high schools and colleges, the late left-wing professor Howard Zinn, was asked (by me) whether he thought the United States had done more good or more bad in the world. \u201cProbably more bad than good,\u201d he answered.
\n\u2013The left regularly characterizes the United States as a sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist and bigoted country.
\n\u2013Our wars are wars for imperialist expansion, driven by material greed.
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\n\u2013The top 1 percent relentlessly exploits the other 99 percent.
\n\u2013America is rigged against blacks, Hispanics and the 99 percent.
\n\u2013Cops kill unarmed blacks proportionately more than they kill unarmed whites because so many cops are racist.
\n\u2013About 1 in 5 female college students are sexually assaulted on campus.
\nIs there anything in Trump\u2019s speech that can match any of those left-wing views of the United States for \u201cdarkness\u201d?
\nMoreover, every one of those leftist critiques of America is false.
\nNevertheless, we are in a dark time in America. In fact, Trump didn\u2019t make the case for America\u2019s darkness nearly effectively enough.
\n\u2013Our universities \u2014 outside of the natural sciences \u2014 are being destroyed as learning institutions. They close minds, censor speech and indoctrinate rather than educate.
\n\u2013Blacks have more anger toward whites and America than at any time since the civil rights era.
\n\u2013American students are learning less while being indoctrinated more. They graduate high school barely able to write a coherent essay with proper sentence structure, grammar and spelling. But they know all about the existential threat allegedly posed by fossil fuels.
\n\u2013According to a recent Gallup Poll, fewer young Americans than at any time since polling began are proud to be Americans.
\n\u2013A greater percentage of Americans are dependent upon government for their income and even for food than at any time in American history.
\n\u2013The American national debt is the highest it has ever been. And it is increasing at a rate that can only lead to an economic implosion.
\n\u2013A smaller percentage of Americans are married than at any time in American history.
\n\u2013Americans are having fewer children than ever.
\n\u2013Fewer businesses in proportion to the general population are being started than ever before.
\n\u2013Sectors of major American cities are essentially killing zones.
\n\u2013Fewer Americans than ever before believe in God, go to church or affirm Judeo-Christian values, the basic moral code of America\u2019s founding and of Western civilization.
\n\u2013Only 2 in 10 black children are born to a married mother.
\nIs that dark enough?
\nAnd the list is only a partial one.
\nMoreover, every one of those dark facts is the result of left-wing policies, left-wing politicians, left-wing writers, left-wing professors and the left-wing party, the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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