No, this is not an April Fool's diary, unless you want to call the people of France and of the US fools. Perhaps we deserve it.
Those who have gone back and forth with me on DK know that I like to cite history to make a point. It's just the way my mind works. "Has this happened before?" "How does this situation differ than what we find happened in 1970?" Or whenever.
“The only thing we learn from history is that people learn nothing from history”
— Georg Wilhelm Hegel