{"id":4662,"date":"2010-06-19T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2010-06-21T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T23:59:22","slug":"dennis-prager-the-greatest-threat-facing-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/dennis-prager-the-greatest-threat-facing-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager: The Greatest Threat Facing America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager explains what is the greatest threat that America faces today: &#8220;We have not passed on what it means to be an American to this generation.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"510\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XNUc8nuo7HI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XNUc8nuo7HI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"510\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Prager Q &#038; A At University of Denver <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNUc8nuo7HI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNUc8nuo7HI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dennis continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;A society does not survive if it does not have a reason to survive.  That is true for individuals.  Where there is a Why, there is a How. &#8230; We have lost the Why. The greatest generation did not teach my generation what Americanism is.  It&#8217;s not its fault.  It wasn&#8217;t taught.  This goes back 100 years, to John Dewey, to importation of European professors, to our universities, to a whole host of issues.<\/p>\n<p>The average American who deeply loves this country and even has conservative values cannot articulate what those values are.  It is no one&#8217;s fault, but that is the greatest threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>(at <b>3:31<\/b> in video)<\/p>\n<p>I would just add that I &#8212; I have never said this, so I have good credentials to say this now &#8212;  it&#8217;s common for commentators to say every election this is the most important election in American history or in our time.  I never said that except with regard to one, Bush 2, term 2. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This is not a presidential election and is the most important in modern American history, this November. <\/p>\n<p>This November, is a referendum on what we want America to be.  It is nothing short of that.  And there is one party that stands for America&#8217;s values, and it has nothing to do with patriotism. [&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>If we do not change both houses we lose!  That is how important it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager explains what is the greatest threat that America faces today: &#8220;We have not passed on what it means to be an American to this generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,15,81],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-culture-war","category-moral-issues","category-videos","tag-dennis-prager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}