Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU
Jul 2, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
In this Independence Day episode, Dennis Prager and Marissa Streit celebrate America's 250th birthday while confronting the growing number of Americans who no longer take pride in their country…
Dennis PragerGuest
Marissa StreitHost
We're celebrating it, but the number of Americans not celebrating it is cause for concern.
They just did a poll, and a tiny, tiny percentage of Democrats think America is the greatest country in the world, which is unbelievable given that they live here.
I'll tell you what should be required viewing by every American on this anniversary.
Nearly all of them came with a bad impression of America given to them by their media.
They can't believe it, that strangers just start talking to them in line at the grocery store.
They're blown away by the fact, this really moved me, one of them mentioned they couldn't get over that members of the armed forces got on airplanes first, that they boarded first.
They said in their country it would be inconceivable to do that with their, with regard to their military.
20% of French homes have air conditioning, but what is it, 80% of American homes have air conditioning.
And the freedoms that we have here, and the choice, and the variety, and the natural beauty, and again, the freedoms that we have.
And it's not just the people take it for granted, that they don't even appreciate it, and so we elect communists in New York and elsewhere.
You know, it's, it's interesting that you bring this up because some of our team members, Nicholas was actually in London for the ARC conference, and he came back to the States saying he could not wait to just come back home, even to Los Angeles.
... it's just these things that, that Americans take for granted because they just have no perspective.
And then you have people from virtually everywhere around the world, people are coming in for the World Cup, and they appreciate the United States of America because they have a perspective of what it is that they do not have in other places.
So much of this is a product of our education system and of our culture of just complete ingratitude.
We're celebrating it, but the number of Americans not celebrating it is cause for concern.
They just did a poll, and a tiny, tiny percentage of Democrats think America is the greatest country in the world, which is unbelievable given that they live here.
I'll tell you what should be required viewing by every American on this anniversary.
Nearly all of them came with a bad impression of America given to them by their media.
They can't believe it, that strangers just start talking to them in line at the grocery store.
They're blown away by the fact, this really moved me, one of them mentioned they couldn't get over that members of the armed forces got on airplanes first, that they boarded first.
They said in their country it would be inconceivable to do that with their, with regard to their military.
20% of French homes have air conditioning, but what is it, 80% of American homes have air conditioning.
And the freedoms that we have here, and the choice, and the variety, and the natural beauty, and again, the freedoms that we have.
And it's not just the people take it for granted, that they don't even appreciate it, and so we elect communists in New York and elsewhere.
You know, it's, it's interesting that you bring this up because some of our team members, Nicholas was actually in London for the ARC conference, and he came back to the States saying he could not wait to just come back home, even to Los Angeles.
... it's just these things that, that Americans take for granted because they just have no perspective.
And then you have people from virtually everywhere around the world, people are coming in for the World Cup, and they appreciate the United States of America because they have a perspective of what it is that they do not have in other places.
So much of this is a product of our education system and of our culture of just complete ingratitude.
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