The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - The Never-Ending Allure of Socialism - On Hannity (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1015)

00:00:00.000 So what happened in New York this week is deeply troubling for the Democrat Party and the entire

00:00:04.680 country. Socialism always leads to suffering. Joining us now to break it all down is the author

00:00:11.220 of Suicidal Empathy and Professor Gad Saad. Professor, it's so great to see you. You know,

00:00:17.460 it's so easy to sit here and say, well, if you want the red team to win, watching the blue team 0.72

00:00:25.880 consume itself and destroy itself must be a good thing. But I think it's really important in this 0.96

00:00:30.920 country to have two sane parties. Obviously, I want the Conservative Party to be better and be

00:00:37.300 more sane and to win, but I don't want an opposing party this insane.

00:00:45.680 Right. The problem, though, is that the allure of socialism is always going to exist as,

00:00:52.980 regrettably a frailty of the human mind right uh envy is a is one of the seven deadly sins

00:01:00.180 and as you might imagine socialists use our proclivity to be envious of others to say hey

00:01:07.780 it's it's not fair that someone else makes so much money than me let me allow my empathetic

00:01:14.500 overlords to come in and create income equality across all of us and then hopefully we can all

00:01:20.740 live in the beautiful unicornia the problem with that charlie is that it is inconsistent with human

00:01:26.580 nature humans are a hierarchical species some of us are taller shorter harder working harder

00:01:32.660 working so to impose a you know an orgiastic form of egalitarianism on a species that is

00:01:39.620 hierarchical is always going to fail and that's exactly what's happened every time that socialism

00:01:45.220 has been tried around the world and of course anyone who has spent 10 minutes studying our

00:01:49.860 founding knows remembers that our founders spent all their time studying

00:01:56.160 nothing other than human nature and understanding that they were gonna build 1.00

00:02:00.720 this it's it's basically a guidebook for idiots that you can't that you can't 1.00

00:02:06.240 screw up if you just kind of stick to those basic rules but you know one of 1.00

00:02:10.620 the things that I think is kind of amazing right now is you listen to these

00:02:13.920 people who are voting for people like mom Donnie and they're the same people

00:02:17.520 who go to the no kings rally and they talk about that you know down with tyranny and all this kind

00:02:22.560 of stuff and it's like they don't understand that though it's not like just some uh you know

00:02:28.240 attendant thing to socialism it is the heart of socialism to be tyrannical to be all encompassing

00:02:37.120 all governing of every aspect of your life and these people just run into the arms of these

00:02:42.400 people after leaving a no kings rally exactly i i i never tire of telling people of the following

00:02:50.400 quote this is a quote by eo wilson the harvard biologist who recently passed away he studied

00:02:55.920 social ants now ants are a communistic species there's a reproductive queen and then there are

00:03:01.920 you know indistinguishable worker ants and soldier ants he was once asked professor wilson what are

00:03:09.760 your thoughts on communism he paused for a second and said great idea wrong species so to try to

00:03:16.880 impose a socio-political economic system on human beings when it is fully incongruent from a darwinian

00:03:26.080 perspective to our human nature is always going to fail but there's always going to be a new 0.99

00:03:31.680 generation of imbeciles that buy into it let me ask you this you know something that republicans 0.98

00:03:36.480 in America, I think, have failed to do is to scratch the itch that a lot of these young people 1.00

00:03:43.920 who have real genuine frustrations, frustrations I share, you know, I have young kids in their

00:03:49.780 lower 20s just coming out, and the idea of buying your first house just seems astonishing to me,

00:03:56.600 and I understand their frustration. How could Republicans, how could conservatives in this

00:04:01.880 country do a better job of reaching those young people and convincing them of what you just said?

00:04:08.080 Teach them about personal dignity, about personal agency, about individual responsibility.

00:04:14.220 I studied all the way from my PhD until I was 29 when most of my friends were going out and

00:04:19.620 partying, but I had the capacity to differentiate between immediate gratification and delayed

00:04:25.080 gratification, and today I'm in a much better place because I was able to have that discipline.

00:04:30.240 So there is a set of tools that we can teach our young people so that we can have success.

00:04:35.620 And we seem to have lost some of those lessons, but they're there.

00:04:39.180 Just listen to your wise elders.

00:04:41.500 And of course, we've lost it, most importantly, at the college and university level where people aren't teaching these things.

00:04:47.480 And it really is interesting because, of course, we were around for the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:04:52.680 And we remember that so much of that was led by young people who yearned to be free.

00:04:59.440 and they wanted to get out from underneath tyranny indeed as you know i mean i've been

00:05:05.740 a professor for 32 years and regrettably most of the parasitic ideas that are that is driving

00:05:11.660 the west into the abyss of infinite lunacy were all spawned by professors because it uniquely 0.98

00:05:18.900 takes intellectuals to come up with some of the dumbest ideas that's right but you you are not 1.00

00:05:24.960 one of those intellectuals who comes up with dumb ideas. You have the best ideas. 0.98

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - July 05, 2026

The Never-Ending Allure of Socialism - On Hannity (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1015)

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