Ben Shapiro on Biden's visit to Ukraine: “There are lots of places around the world where actually what you don't want is democracy”
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Citation From the February 21, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So, what are the actual impacts of what Joe Biden has been doing in Ukraine? Well, first of all, when Joe Biden goes to Ukraine, he says things like, we must protect democracy, we must protect liberty – you'll notice that virtually every explanation of why the United States ought to be funding Ukraine that I have given is utterly disconnected from this particular narrative.
The reason being there are a lot of places around the world where we actually do not want democracy to rule. Okay? That's just a fact of the matter. You know, it's uncomfortable for people to think about this but if democracy were to rule in Saudi Arabia, ISIS would probably be in charge. Okay? If democracy were to rule in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would be in charge. There are lots of places around the world where actually what you don't want is democracy. Okay? What you actually want is an American ally in place to develop toward the protection of rights.
One of the things that Americans have traditionally understood is that democracy is a good it is not the only good. What is good for Americans is the long-scale development of property rights around the world, the long-scale development of freedoms around the world.
And then once that has been inculcated in a population of population, a population accepts all those things, then they can vote, obviously. That's great, voting's great, but only if people understand what they are able to vote on and what they're not able to vote on in the first place. Because there are certain rights that are sacrosanct, certain things that are sacrosanct. And if you don't have that, what you end up with is tyranny of the people, which is something that our founding fathers greatly opposed.