Hurt People

“Hurt People, Hurt People,” declaimed he.

Was this piece of psychological brilliance learned in the MD or the PhD part of the new Michigan Senator’s education?

I certainly don’t consider all Muslim elected officials the same. NYC’s Mamdani is a failed artist, a Columbia brat, and a charismatic. The Michigan Senator is a much more accomplished person. While both men are undeniably smart – so were the Germans of the 1930s – the former’s intelligence is unapplied.

You can see my disappointment. Raised a Jew, I am told that education creates sophistication; education creates tolerance and eviscerates prejudice; education must be respected. And, simultaneously, we knew all along that the most academically accomplished country in Europe executed the Holocaust of our people.

Thus, education failed. What else failed? I say this as someone who attended University of Michigan, who has four other family members who hail to the “Victors Valiant,” and I know good people that live in the state. Something is wrong with Michigan. It’s the most antisemitic state in the Union: Henry Ford, “Father” Coughlin, and Abdul.

I have a responsibility as someone who loves freedom to support the small people, the minority in the Muslim community here and around the world, who without support from their masses, confront jihad every day. Freedom-loving, terror-hating Muslims live in the United States, but Dearborn, Michigan won’t elevate them.

Because these Muslims are my friends, and because I know that they are in greater danger than I from radical Islam, I make this point clearly. In a community with two people, three opinions, I know I am safe to say whatever-the-heck I want when-and-where-ever I want. No Jew will come for my neck. Not every religious community operates this way.

What surprises me is that Dearborn took so long to bring a Senator to Michigan. First came Tlaib. The new Michigan Senator’s foreign policy reads like Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. Sadly, Dearborn is in a larger state that is sympathetic to the idea that Jews are war-mongers. Apply that to this Iran “War.” Such “ideas” die slowly.

I am hurt but not by this Senator. Evil cannot touch me. I am hurt by the people I loved in Michigan when I lived there a year and a half after high school. But I won’t hurt anyone. I simply will no longer say “Hail to the Victors.”

Go Buckeyes.