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You should look in the mirror and ask yourself why you're so angry and ashamed of democracy.
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Were you pleased with the functioning of Germany democracy in 1932?

No one who's cracked a history book open was pleased with that. Nazis were not elected democratically in the traditional sense; they never won a majority in a free national election. You're following me around in the comments because you're crashing out about being proven wrong here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546137

They won 43.9% of the vote in 1933, the last free election until they were militarily crushed.

Remind me the score of the AfD today?


>They won 43.9% of the vote in 1933, the last free election until they were militarily crushed.

Undemocratically outlawing the opposition to secure the vote...

>Remind me the score of the AfD today?

Remind me of party that is calling to undemocratically outlaw the opposition to secure the vote?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/germanys-social-democrats-back-pr...


>Undemocratically outlawing the opposition to secure the vote...

You are cute in thinking your argument holds, but they were not that far (33, 37%) without outlawing the opposition - which were communists directed by Stalin. You profess your hate of the left in all your other posts; if you were in 1933, would you really mind?

>Remind me of party that is calling to undemocratically outlaw the opposition to secure the vote?

The law that would allow to ban the AfD is there since 1949. Reflect why. And also reflect why Germany is a constitutional democracy and not just a democracy.


> they never won a majority in a free national election.

They legally won a plurality in the Bundestag, which is sufficient for Hitler to be legally appointed chancellor, which made everything that follows legal. Like it or not, the Nazi regime was a legal result of democracy. Democracy, neither then nor now, requires an absolute majority, which is why so many European governments are formed as coalitions.

AfD did not win a majority in Saxony-Anhalt either. Nevertheless, a person can justifiably feel disappointed by the democratic outcome, both then and now, without being dismissive of democracy itself.

> You're following me around in the comments

I am doing my part to eliminate misinformation and stupidity in the world. You're welcome.




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