Because this is where I got a job. I teach history at a university in New Jersey. I also married an American. Life is complicated like that. But I dream of returning home someday. You don't like immigrants?
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I do like immigrants. My grandparents were immigrants. I just don't like being told there is no sane America. I didn't vote for this nightmare and neither did most of the folks I know. We're just trying to figure out how we'll handle the next four years.☹️
jan 8, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
There are sane Americans. I actually married one. But there is no "sane America." Collectively, Americans are ignorant, arrogant, and deeply disturbed. I say this as a historian of the US and a college professor who meets hundreds of young Americans every year and has to battle their ignorance.
jan 8, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This makes me so sad. 😥
jan 8, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Me, too.
jan 8, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
jan 8, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
It is worth remembering what it took to end the Third Reich, and what the Nazis were able to do before it was ended.
jan 8, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It took the worst war ever fought. 80,000,000 dead best estimate. Hitler didn't have any nuclear weapons. Trump is about to get 5,000. Believe me when I say I understand what's at stake.
jan 8, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Recent research suggests a toll of >200,000,000 (earlier estimates vastly undercounted civilian deaths in South and Southeast Asia, and in eastern Europe). So, the "next act of Germany" demanded death and sacrifice on a vast scale. Do you really think that is in the cards right now?
jan 8, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
We have a rapist adderall junkie that wants revenge for every humilation he's ever suffered on the entire human race. "I'm sorry, what was the question?"
jan 8, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Fair. But I don't believe that will lead to a world war, since all of the world's superpowers are going the same way. Besides his wealth and power, in a global market, is global. A world war will demand states to fight it... And we are witnessing the dissolution of the liberal state. Everywhere.
jan 8, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm more worried about darker possibilities being as I am LGBTQ and my wife is Africa-American. We now must start thinking like Jews and Slavs in 1920's Germany.
jan 8, 2025, 4:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I wrote this a few years ago... friedmandossier.com/commentary/b...
jan 8, 2025, 4:20 pm • 6 1 • view
Excellent writing. Very poignant. There are a million mass graves around the world filled with people who thought it wouldn’t happen to their nation, and the rule of law would protect them.
jan 8, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I will give that a read today my friend. 😊
jan 8, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I fully agree. It is no longer possible to "go back" to an imagined golden age. We are now fighting for the future in the depths of a dark age. I don't know how we do that (yet), and I fear that it will be a long dark age. But I am a historian, and I know that nothing lasts forever.
jan 8, 2025, 4:18 pm • 2 0 • view
No one can summon the future, but anyone can change the present.
jan 8, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view