When Dennis Prager invites on his show very intelligent thinkers who have very different views from his own and has a civilized discussion with them, I am impressed. Prager has engaged such thinkers as the historian Howard Zinn and the atheist Sam Harris.
When Mr. Prager argues that we should hope some people are in Hell, I'm quite irritated. Actually, my jaw dropped when I read that argument.
Mr. Prager's latest column irritates me. In, "If It's Bad for America, It's Good for Democrats," he makes the case that...well, the title kinds says it all. He seems to think that what he says is particular to the Democrats when really it's applicable to anyone making the case that a current policy is bad and needs improvement.
If you're Ron Paul and think that many of our public institutions ought to be privatized, then your argument is helped when public institutions do a poor job. If you're Christopher Hitchens and you think religion poisons everything (even the root word of your first name, Mr. Hitchens?), then when religious people do bad things, your arguments are more persuasive.
If you declare yourself the guy who's going to fix things, you'll get a lot more business if things really need fixing.
Not that I trust the Democrats to fix things!
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