On Stupidity...

 

© October 27, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

“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 the 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 accomplishes anything here; reasons fall 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 reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

Sixty percent of the anti-democrats think the 2020 election was fraudulent,

 

Even though 60 federal judges, many their Orange Satan appointed, rejected his frivolous lawsuits,

 

It’s gaslighting when the abuser uses “Big Lies” to destabilize you,

 

It’s a cult when you’re a willing participant,

 

The disappointment is that we thought enlightenment,

 

Would happen when they received information:

 

Carter G. Woodson founded The Journal of Negro History in 1916,

 

Negro History Week came in 1926,

African American History Month evolved from that,

 

“Imitation is the highest form of flattery,”

 

Women’s History Month,

Hispanic Heritage Month,

LGBTQ Month,

Indigenous Peoples Day, versus Columbus,

Who didn’t discover anything where people already were, anyway,

 

One-hundred and five years of information,

Refuted by the indoctrination,

Of a white male, cisgender supremacy,

 

The stupid and fascists ignore facts,

Slipping past any line of logical argument,

As quickly as the whiff of a sulphuric fart,

Tribalism keeps them in the grips of a demagogue,

“The Lost Cause” the first successful gaslighting,

Articles of succession,

Substituted with a “war of northern aggression,”

Because Abraham Lincoln was “mean to them.”

 

Before the war, he said:

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”

 

Words that were spoken by a true politician,

 

Jefferson Davis used to live in Manhattan,

A failed real estate developer playing a billionaire on The Apprentice,

 

Notice that no actual billionaire had time for it?

 

A malignant narcissist

Who can’t take responsibility,

Or, admit to failing,

It’s in failure where the learning is,

Bose, Edison, Einstein, Tesla, Hawking,

Didn’t “knock it out of the park” at first theory, or experiment,

The party he’s hijacked has given up,

On the National Academy of Science found,

DURING a Civil War in which,

Victory by the north wasn’t guaranteed,

 

The former Republican Party has given up,

On having an expansive platform to convince,

A sizable amount of the electorate,

To vote for them,

They would instead purge voter rolls,

Decry nonexistent voter fraud,

Close voting precincts in the inner city and on college campuses,

 

In the event of overwhelming democracy: break glass,

Rely on brown shirts,

Shouting at teachers, doctors, and school board members,

Terroristic death threats,

At volunteer election workers and Secretaries of State,

“Nights of broken glass,”

Is the logical outcome of unchallenged hate,

 

Vaccines and masks,

Are “medical tyranny and fascism.”

According to the crowd ingesting hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin,

More police died of COVID-19,

[Than] on the line of duty,

The police union opposes the facts,

That’s supposed to be looking out for the members’ best interests,

 

John Maynard Keynes said:

“When information changes, I change my mind. What, sir, do you do?”

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A German pastor,

Initially, a Nazi sympathizer,

Like Keynes,

Saw the error of his ways,

Acting on new information,

And became a blistering critic,

So, in “good Christian” fashion,

The Nazi regime killed him,

 

“We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity, [in fact], our movement is Christian.”

 

Said by its leader, Adolph Hitler,

When what he meant is the state and its leader becoming the national religion,

The current fascist can only quote Two Corinthians,

Jack-leg preachers have tried to legitimize him,

 

Publicly laying hands on a reprobate,

Violating separation of church and state,

Charlie Kirk rebuking a brown shirt his lies helped create,

Won’t forgive him, nor

Bill-Loofah-war-on-Christmas-Tiller-the-baby-killer-O’Reilly,

Rush-I’m-Just-An-Entertainer-Limbaugh,

Sean Insanity,

Laura Ingrate,

Or mini Nazi Barbie, Tucker Carlson

(Whose name tells me that he got teased a lot in school)

And the streaming pile of feces,

Alex Jones false flag propaganda,

He’s calling a “documentary,”

 

The conflagration and violence it sparks are only because of their abject hate and stupidity.