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The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Abin, on demand.

On the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome, all you happy warriors.

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works.

And one of the ways in which the world really works is that we human beings build monuments. Now, it is also true that we demolish monuments.

Sometimes these are monuments of our enemies. These are monuments of Saddam Hussein that were pulled down by

victorious U.S. forces in Iraq, and similar things happening elsewhere, all the way to the demolition

of Confederate era monuments in more recent times, I should say, the lamentable destruction of monuments.

I say lamentable, not because I am a supporter of slavery.

No, of course not.

I say lamentable because when you build monuments to your history, then things that are part of our history are retained.

And this idea of whitewashing history is Stalinist, this idea of photoshopping news pictures to convert reality to the official party propaganda line.

And again, removing these in an attempt to ameliorate the fury on the left just made no sense.

That kind of surrender is something I generally do not recommend.

In the same way, I never recommend pointing an empty gun at anybody, which is another way of saying, issuing an ultimatum with absolutely nothing behind it.

It was, it's just a sad thing.

I had a very good friend once, a gentleman older than I was, who'd had a very distinguished career, as far as I knew,

at a large banking firm, an investment banking firm, whose name you would definitely recognize.

And for a while, he was on the board of the organization it is my privilege to serve the

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