Letter to a German Friend
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In the darkest days of World War II, Algerian-French writer Albert Camus sent a defiant message to the Nazis: our victory is inevitable. If you're feeling any election anxiety or grappling with uncertainty about the months ahead, watch this video on Camus' powerful Letter to a German Friend, from his book Resistance, Rebellion, and Death. It's a reminder that our resistance to authoritarianism has deep, resilient roots.
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Photo: With my uncle Vitalij Keis in his library. For more on his story, listen to our 2013 interview with NPR here: https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/15/orwells-animal-farm-and-ukrainian-refugees
Show Notes:
Camus’ Letters to a German Friend, a Warning for Our Times https://casdinteret.com/2021/11/albert-camus-letters-to-a-german-friend-warning/
Broadcast to Germany: Dorothy Thompson Speaking https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1943/01/broadcast-to-germany-dorothy-thompson-speaking/657045/
Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and Ukrainian Refugees https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/15/orwells-animal-farm-and-ukrainian-refugees
Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm https://www.amazon.com/Orwell-Refugees-Untold-Story-Animal-ebook/dp/B007JNKF5G
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. It's Andrea with Gaslit Nation. I just wanted to check in with you and see how everyone is feeling. |
| 0:08.0 | I know there's a lot of election anxiety out there. I feel it too, especially from this most recent phone bank that we did on |
| 0:15.0 | Wednesday night with the wonderful folks at Sister District. We called into |
| 0:20.2 | Wisconsin and my list for whatever reason had a lot of hardcore MAGA supporters because Wisconsin's |
| 0:28.9 | going to be a very close state. |
| 0:31.5 | The GOP has had it on lock through their corruption. |
| 0:36.0 | Ava Du Barnet's film 13th goes into that. |
| 0:39.3 | The work of Ari Berman, who we've had on the show goes into that. |
| 0:42.0 | So Wisconsin is going to be very tough. |
| 0:43.5 | So I think a lot of these groups like Sister District |
| 0:46.0 | are calling white men to get out the vote |
| 0:48.6 | because they desperately need to win. |
| 0:50.1 | The victory is going to be on the margins. |
| 0:52.1 | And so in my list, I had MAGA supporters, |
| 0:55.0 | including one who was telling me that he believed |
| 0:58.0 | that Trump was the greatest thing since sliced bread. |
| 1:01.0 | He would take a bullet for Trump and on and on he went about the glory of |
| 1:06.4 | Donald Trump and I asked him finally I'm like what is it that you love about Trump? Is it |
| 1:12.2 | the violent attempted coup? And he just |
| 1:14.8 | said nothing. He just kept on rambling. And I've had that reaction quite a bit from |
| 1:19.7 | a lot of these MAGA cultists that I happen to get every now and then while |
| 1:23.5 | phone banking where they just completely ignore you when you bring up January 6th like |
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