Is it free markets or government intervention that is mostly to blame for the diminishing middle class in this country? Batya Ungar-Sargon, Newsweek’s deputy opinion editor, joins Dennis and provides a Marxist perspective on the issue. You may be surprised how Dennis responds!
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Hi everybody, welcome to fireside chat number 240. Yes
She you it's too bad. You don't see megan the arms smile
Because it's rare that I get the right number 240
on
Rare occasion. Well, let me just open up by saying i'm dennis prager and
This is my chance every week to talk to you from my heart and my mind
About what is on my mind and then half the time is what is on your mind with your questions
This is otto, of course
america's best known dog
Which cracks me up I have to say it has no impact on otto, but it does crack me up
Very rarely, I would say
What is it? Maybe six times a year
Maximum of six times a year. I actually have a guest
on the fireside chat and
There's a reason for that. I really have tried to preserve these weekly times
As really you you and I that that
That has been very important to me
But there are people that I really have wanted to interact with at length
on this
The my guest is one of those people
batia unger sargon
And if you didn't quite
Catch that last name. I'll say it again unger sargon
It is from the harry potter series
Doesn't it sound like it
Now that I think of it
uh, batia is a very very interesting, uh individual a
Thinker, I love thinkers
She is an what associate opinion editor. Is that your title?
Deputy opinion editor at newsweek. And by the way, I I have no vested interest in saying this
But newsweek over the last few years has truly improved
And I read it regularly. I just it's a free ad for newsweek
I don't agree with every article but that doesn't matter there. There are still things worth a lot of them worth reading
now
You may you may be wondering why batia is
on the fireside chat
Because there are a lot of associate editors out there
Was that right associate no deputy there are a lot of deputy editors out there a lot of deputies
uh, but uh, this is a woman who has
questioned herself and questioned
american thinking
So I want to I want to develop your intellectual autobiography to begin with
If I had have met you 10 years ago
And said what are you politically? What would you have said?
I would have said um
I'm a liberal
Would you have said that you are if I have then said
Or somebody else said to you. So, uh, would you say you're a leftist?
Would you have said? Okay. Yeah, that that's fine. Yeah, right
So left this liberal either one because more or less synonymous in your mind
What if I ask you as of this moment, what would you say you are politically?
I would say i'm a marxist
I didn't expect that
I have to admit I had a feeling this was going to go in directions
I had no idea. This is the sort of yogi bearer moment when there's a fork in the road. Take it
That is what we call a fork in the road
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