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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Are things better or worse today than they were, say, 10, 15, 20, 50, or even 100 years ago? It’s not an easy question to answer. It really depends on the specific time and the specific subject… A small group of Neo-Nazis make some noise in front of a synagogue in Georgia. It’s much ado about nothing. These Neo-Nazis are true losers. They have zero influence. Dennis doesn’t let compliments go to his head or insults to his heart. An emailer from Portugal explains how much Dennis has meant to his life… The only thing that bothers Dennis is when people lie about him... In addition to encouraging abortion, Planned Parenthood is involved in the sexualization of children. How can there be a good God and so much evil and suffering in the world? This has been an issue religious Jews and Christians have wrestled with for centuries. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You’ll also get access to 15 years’ worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.

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0:00.0	Dennis Prager here thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager podcast to hear the entire
0:05.9	three hours of my radio show commercial free every single day become a member of Prager Topia
0:13.4	you'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives as well as the Daily Show Prep
0:20.0	subscribe at Pragertopia.com hello my friends it's July 4th we can come here because it's next Tuesday
0:35.0	and I think about that with regard to how Americans are responding to its birthday compared to
0:44.4	100 years ago there was a particularly stupid article in New York Times by a psychologist I
0:53.8	brought this to your attention last week who said I think there were two authors two academics I
1:01.2	think and it was that we are programmed to think the past was better when in fact that's just
1:10.8	nonsense and it is this built in foolishness if you will in the human condition now there's
1:22.3	no question that there is an element of that in the good old days I always mention the good old days
1:28.9	the acronym is GOD God some some people worship the good old days and they're not worth it in the
1:36.5	good old days in the 20th century 100 million people were slaughtered by nearly all by
1:44.0	communists and the rest by Nazis so I am aware of the danger of the good old days on the other
1:52.4	hand it is it is truly an absurdity to dismiss the idea out of hand that things were better
2:01.3	things were better in the United States were they better for everyone that's the immediate
2:07.1	retort by people who don't think clearly of course it wasn't better for everyone that is correct
2:16.3	if you were a black in the south for example there were Jim Crow laws you couldn't even eat
2:22.1	at a lunch counter in some places of course that's true if you if you were a gay human being
2:30.8	you were you were harassed and you were you were looked down upon as a human being I'm totally aware of
2:38.9	that to say that the times were better isn't to say what they were better for every single person
2:45.2	in the country they weren't but for the country as a whole moving in the direction it was
2:53.1	it was a country that would would no longer persecute gays or have segregation laws it was
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