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DoomsdaysCWWhen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DietrichBonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DietrichBonhoeffer</a>, a German Pastor, Theorized How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stupidity</a> Enabled the Rise of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> (1942)in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025"Two days after Adolf <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a> became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity."'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. '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.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalladOfTheLittleMan</a>

DoomsdaysCWWHAT MERCY HAVE THEY SHOWN US?!! NONE! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMercyForTheLittleManWithin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoMercyForTheLittleManWithin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalladOfTheLittleMan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckNazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckTrump</a>

DoomsdaysCW1939: When 20,000 Americans Held a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProNazi</a> Rally in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadisonSquareGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MadisonSquareGarden</a>in History | October 27th, 2024 "Two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry presents A Night at The Garden, a film that revisits a night in February 1939 when '20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism — an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.' As we described it back in 2017, the film documents the following scene:"What you’re looking at is the 1939 'Pro-American Rally' (aka Pro-Nazi Rally) sponsored by the German American Bund at Madison Square Garden on George Washington’s 207th Birthday. Banners emblazoned with such slogans as 'Stop Jewish Domination of Christian Americans,” 'Wake Up America. Smash Jewish Communism,' and '1,000,000 Bund Members by 1940' decorated the great hall."New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia—an Episcopalian with a Jewish mother—considered canceling the event, but ultimately he, along with the American Jewish Committee and the American Civil Liberties Committee [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACLU</a>] decreed that the Bund was exercising its right to free speech and free assembly."A crowd of 20,000 filled the famous sports venue in mid-town Manhattan to capacity. 1,500 police officers were present to render the Garden 'a fortress impregnable to anti-Nazis.” An estimated 100,000 counter-demonstrators were gathering outside.…'"Read more: <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/when-20000-americans-held-a-pro-nazi-rally-in-madison-square-garden-in-1939.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/when-20000-americans-held-a-pro-nazi-rally-in-madison-square-garden-in-1939.html</a>Video: <a href="https://vimeo.com/237489146" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/237489146</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheLittleManWithin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheLittleManWithin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericaFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericaFirst</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ViewerSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewerSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalladOfTheLittleMan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristoFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s Night at the Garden: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racist</a> Campaign Rally Evokes Infamous 1939 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> Gathering in NYC<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a>, October 29, 2024"We take a close look at Donald Trump’s campaign and racist rally at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadisonSquareGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MadisonSquareGarden</a> with filmmaker Marshall Curry, who attended the rally and also directed the short film 'A Night at the Garden,' about the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, and notes, 'The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/demagogues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demagogues</a> in 1939 used the same tactics that we see today.'"<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/29/a_night_at_the_garden_marshall" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/29/a_night_at_the_garden_marshall</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheLittleManWithin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheLittleManWithin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ViewerSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewerSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalladOfTheLittleMan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristoFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe Ballad of the Little Man"He was doing fine in '39 Thank God he did not win He kept playing on his fiddle As he watched old Rome cave in He sold love away from his children's hearts And told them it was sin Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy Of that little man withinNow he's sitting in the gardens As the acid rain comes in He got it covered full of rhino heads And boots of leopard skin He got the means, he make the harvest high But you can count those hungry people die We're all at the mercy Of the greedy man withinSo if you're feeling lonely, baby If you're feeling blue If you listen to your little friend You know he'll tell you what to do But if you hear his words and you get confused Start believing they're all true Then you have just been fooled again Who said we won't get fooled again? By the little man within"- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KarlWallinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KarlWallinger</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldParty</a>, 1986<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGSSXJEvzs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGSSXJEvzs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RabidRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RabidRight</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nationalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environmental</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/80sMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#80sMusic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Activism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antifa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGACult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGACult</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheBalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheLittleManWithin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheLittleManWithin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalladOfTheLittleMan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKarlWallinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RIPKarlWallinger</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

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