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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 02:30 UTC

When The #TwilightZone Imagined #Fascism in #America in a 1963 Episode Starring #DennisHopper

in History, Television | March 25th, 2025

"Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode 'He’s Alive' is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring as it does a young (but in acting sensibility, almost fully formed) Dennis Hopper as Peter Vollmer, a ne’er-do-well made into an aspiring dictator by none other than Adolf Hitler. Played by Curt Conway, a specialist in doctors, judges, and other authority figures, the undead Führer offers his young disciple instructions like the above, from an early scene before his identity is revealed.

"'How do you move a mob, Mr. Vollmer? How do you excite them? How do you make them feel as one with you?' Hitler asks. The answer, which he then provides, is first to join them: 'When you speak to them, speak to them as if you were a member of the mob. Speak to them in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate. If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. And if they are angry, Mr. Vollmer… if they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, the thing that is most of the essence, Mr. Vollmer, is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.'

"If accused of scapegoating minorities, he should address the throng thus: 'Should I tell you who are the minorities? Should I tell you? We! We are the minorities.' Soon, we see Peter in full neo-Nazi gear delivering just such a harangue, thoroughly Hopper-ized in diction, to a modestly attended rally. How could these ordinary-looking attendees be a minority? 'Because patriotism is a minority. Because love of country is the minority. Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion!'

"Though hardly artful, this rhetoric eventually makes him into a popular figure, albeit one whose rise is cut short when he turns to conspiracy to accelerate his rise to power.

"And what of the spirit of Hitler? 'Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare?' Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling asks in his episode-closing monologue. 'Any place, every place where there’s #hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s #bigotry.' It was against such broad social phenomena that Serling so often used his scripts to argue, and with 'He’s Alive,' he made use of an unusually vivid ideological example.

"A veteran of the Second World War, which had ended less than twenty years earlier, Serling surely had even fresher memories of the threat of Hitler than did the general American public — and understood even more clearly what could happen if those memories were to fade away."

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html#google_vignette

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Twitler
#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #LittleManWithin

#twilightzone #fascism #america #dennishopper #hate #bigotry

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 02:30 UTC

When The #TwilightZone Imagined #Fascism in #America in a 1963 Episode Starring #DennisHopper

in History, Television | March 25th, 2025

"Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode 'He’s Alive' is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring as it does a young (but in acting sensibility, almost fully formed) Dennis Hopper as Peter Vollmer, a ne’er-do-well made into an aspiring dictator by none other than Adolf Hitler. Played by Curt Conway, a specialist in doctors, judges, and other authority figures, the undead Führer offers his young disciple instructions like the above, from an early scene before his identity is revealed.

"'How do you move a mob, Mr. Vollmer? How do you excite them? How do you make them feel as one with you?' Hitler asks. The answer, which he then provides, is first to join them: 'When you speak to them, speak to them as if you were a member of the mob. Speak to them in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate. If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. And if they are angry, Mr. Vollmer… if they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, the thing that is most of the essence, Mr. Vollmer, is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.'

"If accused of scapegoating minorities, he should address the throng thus: 'Should I tell you who are the minorities? Should I tell you? We! We are the minorities.' Soon, we see Peter in full neo-Nazi gear delivering just such a harangue, thoroughly Hopper-ized in diction, to a modestly attended rally. How could these ordinary-looking attendees be a minority? 'Because patriotism is a minority. Because love of country is the minority. Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion!'

"Though hardly artful, this rhetoric eventually makes him into a popular figure, albeit one whose rise is cut short when he turns to conspiracy to accelerate his rise to power.

"And what of the spirit of Hitler? 'Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare?' Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling asks in his episode-closing monologue. 'Any place, every place where there’s #hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s #bigotry.' It was against such broad social phenomena that Serling so often used his scripts to argue, and with 'He’s Alive,' he made use of an unusually vivid ideological example.

"A veteran of the Second World War, which had ended less than twenty years earlier, Serling surely had even fresher memories of the threat of Hitler than did the general American public — and understood even more clearly what could happen if those memories were to fade away."

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html#google_vignette

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Twitler
#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #LittleManWithin

#twilightzone #fascism #america #dennishopper #hate #bigotry

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 02:30 UTC

When The #TwilightZone Imagined #Fascism in #America in a 1963 Episode Starring #DennisHopper

in History, Television | March 25th, 2025

"Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode 'He’s Alive' is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring as it does a young (but in acting sensibility, almost fully formed) Dennis Hopper as Peter Vollmer, a ne’er-do-well made into an aspiring dictator by none other than Adolf Hitler. Played by Curt Conway, a specialist in doctors, judges, and other authority figures, the undead Führer offers his young disciple instructions like the above, from an early scene before his identity is revealed.

"'How do you move a mob, Mr. Vollmer? How do you excite them? How do you make them feel as one with you?' Hitler asks. The answer, which he then provides, is first to join them: 'When you speak to them, speak to them as if you were a member of the mob. Speak to them in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate. If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. And if they are angry, Mr. Vollmer… if they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, the thing that is most of the essence, Mr. Vollmer, is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.'

"If accused of scapegoating minorities, he should address the throng thus: 'Should I tell you who are the minorities? Should I tell you? We! We are the minorities.' Soon, we see Peter in full neo-Nazi gear delivering just such a harangue, thoroughly Hopper-ized in diction, to a modestly attended rally. How could these ordinary-looking attendees be a minority? 'Because patriotism is a minority. Because love of country is the minority. Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion!'

"Though hardly artful, this rhetoric eventually makes him into a popular figure, albeit one whose rise is cut short when he turns to conspiracy to accelerate his rise to power.

"And what of the spirit of Hitler? 'Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare?' Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling asks in his episode-closing monologue. 'Any place, every place where there’s #hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s #bigotry.' It was against such broad social phenomena that Serling so often used his scripts to argue, and with 'He’s Alive,' he made use of an unusually vivid ideological example.

"A veteran of the Second World War, which had ended less than twenty years earlier, Serling surely had even fresher memories of the threat of Hitler than did the general American public — and understood even more clearly what could happen if those memories were to fade away."

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html#google_vignette

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Twitler
#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #LittleManWithin

#twilightzone #fascism #america #dennishopper #hate #bigotry

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 02:30 UTC

When The #TwilightZone Imagined #Fascism in #America in a 1963 Episode Starring #DennisHopper

in History, Television | March 25th, 2025

"Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode 'He’s Alive' is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring as it does a young (but in acting sensibility, almost fully formed) Dennis Hopper as Peter Vollmer, a ne’er-do-well made into an aspiring dictator by none other than Adolf Hitler. Played by Curt Conway, a specialist in doctors, judges, and other authority figures, the undead Führer offers his young disciple instructions like the above, from an early scene before his identity is revealed.

"'How do you move a mob, Mr. Vollmer? How do you excite them? How do you make them feel as one with you?' Hitler asks. The answer, which he then provides, is first to join them: 'When you speak to them, speak to them as if you were a member of the mob. Speak to them in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate. If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. And if they are angry, Mr. Vollmer… if they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, the thing that is most of the essence, Mr. Vollmer, is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.'

"If accused of scapegoating minorities, he should address the throng thus: 'Should I tell you who are the minorities? Should I tell you? We! We are the minorities.' Soon, we see Peter in full neo-Nazi gear delivering just such a harangue, thoroughly Hopper-ized in diction, to a modestly attended rally. How could these ordinary-looking attendees be a minority? 'Because patriotism is a minority. Because love of country is the minority. Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion!'

"Though hardly artful, this rhetoric eventually makes him into a popular figure, albeit one whose rise is cut short when he turns to conspiracy to accelerate his rise to power.

"And what of the spirit of Hitler? 'Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare?' Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling asks in his episode-closing monologue. 'Any place, every place where there’s #hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s #bigotry.' It was against such broad social phenomena that Serling so often used his scripts to argue, and with 'He’s Alive,' he made use of an unusually vivid ideological example.

"A veteran of the Second World War, which had ended less than twenty years earlier, Serling surely had even fresher memories of the threat of Hitler than did the general American public — and understood even more clearly what could happen if those memories were to fade away."

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html#google_vignette

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Twitler
#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #LittleManWithin

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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:59 UTC

From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism published in 2003 (based on #UmbertoEcco's list)

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

#lawrencebritt #characteristicsoffascism #umbertoecco #sexism #gender #abortion

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:59 UTC

From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism published in 2003 (based on #UmbertoEcco's list)

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

#lawrencebritt #characteristicsoffascism #umbertoecco #sexism #gender #abortion

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:59 UTC

From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism published in 2003 (based on #UmbertoEcco's list)

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

#lawrencebritt #characteristicsoffascism #umbertoecco #sexism #gender #abortion

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:59 UTC

From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism published in 2003 (based on #UmbertoEcco's list)

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

#lawrencebritt #characteristicsoffascism #umbertoecco #sexism #gender #abortion

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:59 UTC

From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism published in 2003 (based on #UmbertoEcco's list)

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

#gay #homophobia #abortion #gender #sexism #umbertoecco

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:50 UTC

Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use

Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.

By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026

Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.

"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.

"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #GBLTQ #GenderPolice

#idaho #transgender #bathroomban #movementadvancementproject #lgbtq #florida

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:50 UTC

Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use

Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.

By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026

Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.

"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.

"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #GBLTQ #GenderPolice

#idaho #transgender #bathroomban #movementadvancementproject #lgbtq #florida

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:50 UTC

Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use

Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.

By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026

Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.

"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.

"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #GBLTQ #GenderPolice

#idaho #transgender #bathroomban #movementadvancementproject #lgbtq #florida

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:50 UTC

Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use

Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.

By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026

Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.

"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.

"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #GBLTQ #GenderPolice

#idaho #transgender #bathroomban #movementadvancementproject #lgbtq #florida

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 16:50 UTC

Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use

Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.

By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026

Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.

"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.

"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #GBLTQ #GenderPolice

#genderpolice #gbltq #characteristicsoffascism #uspol #florida #lgbtq

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:05 UTC

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366

14 of 14, I'd say...!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366

#uspol #characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:05 UTC

14 of 14, I'd say...!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366

#uspol #characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:05 UTC

14 of 14, I'd say...!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366

#uspol #characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:05 UTC

14 of 14, I'd say...!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366

#uspol #characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:05 UTC

14 of 14, I'd say...!

#characteristicsoffascism #uspol

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:04 UTC

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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:04 UTC

#characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:04 UTC

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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:04 UTC

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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 21:04 UTC

RE: https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116699850322780332

#characteristicsoffascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 00:42 UTC

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