An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people.
An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people.
Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution.
His Letters and Papers from Prison, published posthumously in 1951, is perhaps the most profound document of his convictions.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reason falls on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental.
In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reason, for it is senseless and dangerous.”
American Idiocracy: Idiots prefer Trump. And there are a lot of idiots.
MAGA dumbfucks are so fucking dumb, they have no idea that the pro-slavery Confederates were the bad guys.
4 propaganda tricks Trump learned from Hitler: Fascist propaganda targets the dumbest of the dumb, because they're too dumb to know when they're being lied to.
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
Adolf Hitler
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.
In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
Adolf Hitler
“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility. In the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.“
Adolf Hitler
“The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake.
And only the will to save the race and native land, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.”
Adolf Hitler
Christofascist MAGA Nazis don't just want to criminalize homosexuality. They want to exterminate gay and trans people, just like German Nazis did.
Here in the UK on Remembrance Sunday, millions gather at monuments throughout the country to honour the sacrifices made by our family members and friends in the conflict to defeat the horrors inflicted on the world by the Nazis in World War Two. The cruel irony cannot be ignored, that only days before, the American people in an unfathomable act of betrayal, elected as their president someone who embraced the ideals of the same cruel regime, their own countrymen died fighting against. By doing so they brought shame upon themselves, the memories of those fallen service members in Arlington and other war graves across the whole world. The attack on Pearl Harbor was described by the president of that time as “a date that will live in infamy.” Well for me this election result is a comparable act of self inflicted treachery. My father and my uncles all served, my mother and aunt also worked in factories supplying the forces. They all thankfully survived but millions didn’t. Many millions suffered horrendously, dying directly from the conflict or by starvation, torture and the obscene cruelty of the Nazis. More than I could imagine in my nightmares were innocent babies, children, women, the elderly, minorities and those with disabilities, imprisoned in concentration camps to be tortured then gassed. My heart breaks to contemplate their suffering and I rage to think anyone could ever believe that these atrocities could be justified. So I say to those who voted for Trump who said, according to General Kelly, “Hitler did some good things,” shame on you and may you reap the whirlwind you’ve sown. Your fallen service people will be turning in their graves at your stupidity and ignorance.
Just LOOK at the staggering STUPIDITY of large percentages of people from marginalized groups targeted by Project 2025 who voted FOR their Executioners!