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BONHOEFFER'S THEORY OF STUPIDITY AND WHY MAGA IS FUCKING DANGEROUS
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian executed by the N#zis in 1945. Before they k#lled him, he wrote something that perfectly explains Trump's cult followers.
His theory? Stupidity isn't about IQ - it's about moral failure.
Bonhoeffer said stupidity happens when people surrender their independent judgment to an authority figure. They stop thinking for themselves and become a fucking tool - literally wielded by someone else.
Here's the terrifying part: You can fight malice with facts. But against stupidity, you're defenseless. Facts don't matter. Evidence doesn't matter. Logic is useless. The stupid person is immune to reason because they've surrendered their ability to think critically.
Sound familiar?
MAGA has completely surrendered critical thinking to Trump. Not because they're genetically dumb, but because they've made a moral choice to stop thinking independently.
The evidence is everywhere:
Trump said COVID would disappear. Over a million Americans died. They still worship him.
Mexico never paid for the wall. MAGA doesn't care.
He promised to drain the swamp, then appointed more billionaires than any president in history. They cheer harder.
His tariffs are tanking markets and threatening recession. MAGA says it's all part of the plan.
The Epstein files name him in allegations of r#ping a 13-year-old. MAGA says fake news.
You can't debate them because they're not operating in reality. Show them Trump's contradictions? Fake news. Show them economic data? Deep state. Show them video evidence? Doesn't matter.
Bonhoeffer said: "The stupid person will defend himself to the bitter end and become dangerous when called to account, for then he becomes shameless and switches to attack."
Tell a MAGA supporter they're wrong and watch what happens. They don't engage - they attack. They deflect. They call you names. Anything except address the fucking facts.
This is why MAGA is dangerous. They've surrendered their moral judgment. They'll defend anything Trump does - mock disabled people, brag about assault, praise dictators, attempt a coup, get indicted 91 times. They're not evaluating his actions. They've given up that capacity.
China's dumping US bonds. Europe's pulling investments. Australia's markets are volatile from Trump's tariff threats. He's destroying America's economic credibility in real-time, and MAGA is too fucking stupid - in Bonhoeffer's sense - to see it.
I predicted this economic disaster just like I predicted the GFC. Not because I'm brilliant, but because I can read basic data and haven't surrendered my brain to a reality TV conman.
Bonhoeffer's point: Stupidity - this willful surrender of independent thought - is more dangerous than evil because you can't fight it with facts.
MAGA will watch their healthcare gutted, Social Security threatened, wages stagnate, jobs disappear, democracy dismantled - and they'll cheer because Trump told them it's winning.
Bonhoeffer said liberation from stupidity requires people to choose to reclaim their independence and start thinking critically again. But they won't do it while under the spell of power.
So what do we do? We keep fighting. We keep pointing out the lies, the corruption, the failures. Not because it'll change MAGA minds - it probably won't. But because there are people watching who haven't completely surrendered yet. People who might snap out of it when the economic pain hits.
When the tariffs destroy jobs, when the recession hits, when Trump's corruption becomes too massive to ignore - some might reclaim their ability to think. Might realize they've been tools of a con man.
Until then? We keep speaking truth. We keep sticking it to Trump and his cult of willfully stupid followers.
Because the alternative is accepting authoritarian stupidity as the new normal.
And fuck that option to hell & back.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian executed by the N#zis in 1945. Before they k#lled him, he wrote something that perfectly explains Trump's cult followers.
His theory? Stupidity isn't about IQ - it's about moral failure.
Bonhoeffer said stupidity happens when people surrender their independent judgment to an authority figure. They stop thinking for themselves and become a fucking tool - literally wielded by someone else.
Here's the terrifying part: You can fight malice with facts. But against stupidity, you're defenseless. Facts don't matter. Evidence doesn't matter. Logic is useless. The stupid person is immune to reason because they've surrendered their ability to think critically.
Sound familiar?
MAGA has completely surrendered critical thinking to Trump. Not because they're genetically dumb, but because they've made a moral choice to stop thinking independently.
The evidence is everywhere:
Trump said COVID would disappear. Over a million Americans died. They still worship him.
Mexico never paid for the wall. MAGA doesn't care.
He promised to drain the swamp, then appointed more billionaires than any president in history. They cheer harder.
His tariffs are tanking markets and threatening recession. MAGA says it's all part of the plan.
The Epstein files name him in allegations of r#ping a 13-year-old. MAGA says fake news.
You can't debate them because they're not operating in reality. Show them Trump's contradictions? Fake news. Show them economic data? Deep state. Show them video evidence? Doesn't matter.
Bonhoeffer said: "The stupid person will defend himself to the bitter end and become dangerous when called to account, for then he becomes shameless and switches to attack."
Tell a MAGA supporter they're wrong and watch what happens. They don't engage - they attack. They deflect. They call you names. Anything except address the fucking facts.
This is why MAGA is dangerous. They've surrendered their moral judgment. They'll defend anything Trump does - mock disabled people, brag about assault, praise dictators, attempt a coup, get indicted 91 times. They're not evaluating his actions. They've given up that capacity.
China's dumping US bonds. Europe's pulling investments. Australia's markets are volatile from Trump's tariff threats. He's destroying America's economic credibility in real-time, and MAGA is too fucking stupid - in Bonhoeffer's sense - to see it.
I predicted this economic disaster just like I predicted the GFC. Not because I'm brilliant, but because I can read basic data and haven't surrendered my brain to a reality TV conman.
Bonhoeffer's point: Stupidity - this willful surrender of independent thought - is more dangerous than evil because you can't fight it with facts.
MAGA will watch their healthcare gutted, Social Security threatened, wages stagnate, jobs disappear, democracy dismantled - and they'll cheer because Trump told them it's winning.
Bonhoeffer said liberation from stupidity requires people to choose to reclaim their independence and start thinking critically again. But they won't do it while under the spell of power.
So what do we do? We keep fighting. We keep pointing out the lies, the corruption, the failures. Not because it'll change MAGA minds - it probably won't. But because there are people watching who haven't completely surrendered yet. People who might snap out of it when the economic pain hits.
When the tariffs destroy jobs, when the recession hits, when Trump's corruption becomes too massive to ignore - some might reclaim their ability to think. Might realize they've been tools of a con man.
Until then? We keep speaking truth. We keep sticking it to Trump and his cult of willfully stupid followers.
Because the alternative is accepting authoritarian stupidity as the new normal.
And fuck that option to hell & back.
