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Comment Re:As they should be. (Score 1) 628

And Hitler was elected in democratic elections as well.

No, he wasn't, stop spreading that BS please. Hitler was appointed by Hindenburg, then engineered the Reichstag fire, then enacted draconian laws on grounds of security, used that to rig the next election, which still didn't bring him majority. He then forced Hindenburg out, forced the new Reichstag into giving him legislative powers, effectively suspended the constitution, and then proceeded on to murder his opposition in and outside of his party, and, finally, using the "emergency" legislative powers to declare himself a Furher. Or somesuch. But he was never elected at any point of his national political career by a majority.

No actually Hitler was elected by democratic elections. What he did was get initially elected to the German parliament and used the electoral system at the time to grant himself more and more powers. This was helped by infighting and political manoeuvring by his opponents which allowed him to set himself up for a "power grab", allowing himself to become Chancellor (essentially what would be the prime minister) and then eventually merge his job with the office of president. The conditions of post World War 1 German politics essentially set up the conditions for his rise. Hindenberg was a check to him initially but he was limited by constitutional role that he needed to perform to enable the proper formation of a government from the people who had been elected to parliament. See the Wikipedia article on Hitler; it's quite interesting.

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