Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Back in the day people FOUGHT AGAINST Communism and FASCISM. Today they embrace FASCISM defend it protect it celebrate it. What happened?
Hitler was democratically elected to begin with. Had a core of adherents even as the Soviets were marching into Berlin. Most German people aren't monsters, they were duped.
As head of a minority government in coalition. His NSDAP had the highest number of votes (not quite a majority), so Hindenburg had little choice in appointment. Ergo, he was elected de facto if not completely de jure.
The Nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag in 1932, although without a majority. Infighting between Hindenburg's appointee, Franz von Papen, and his coalition partner, Kurt von Schleicher, left the parliament untenable and both men negotiated with Hitler for his support. Hitler refused both, and as leader of the largest party in the Reichstag, Hindenburg no longer had any other option - the Weimar economy was in the grip of hyperinflation and on the brink of collapse. Hitler didn't exactly "lose" the election, everybody did. Hitler gained more votes than any other contender, but nobody got the required 50% to form government.
I'm sorry, but this argument is going nowhere. Hitler made it. Obviously. He kind of took over regardless. He was a pig who had a band of idiots behind his disgusting message.
Just like today. That is what we should be paying attention to. NOT THAT HE GOT ELECTED, BUT HOW. Hitler was "appointed" and Trump STOLE THE ELECTION. He is in office, just like Hitler, because people allowed it to happen.
That's a gerrymander. The winner-takes-all system gives too much power to less populous States, so a vote in Wyoming is worth ten times as much as a vote in New York, and runoffs concentrate WAY too much power in swing States - a sane system in 2000 would have sent 15 Republican and 14 Democrat representatives from Florida to the college, Bush won it by a bee's genitalia. He got all 29, that's cockeyed. Germany had a system which was common at the time - rather than a duopoly as is usual now (Republican/Democrat in the US, Conservative/Labour in the UK etc) with a smattering of independents, the siruation in Europe was a plethora of minor parties which formed tenuous alliances in order to form minority coalition governments, led by a figurehead president or monarch with little political power other than the little-used option of firing the political leader if he was either incompetent or too big for his boots. It is rumoured that Hindenburg planned to fire Hitler in 1934 for the second reason, but died before he did so. On his death, Hitler declared himself Fùhrer (I know the diacritic is wrong, the umlaut isn't working on this device).
The states are the borders from the beginning not gerrymandered at all that is the game both parties play with the House.
It makes a candidate have to appeal to the entire country not just CA, NY or TX. States are free to decide how they want to award their votes.
This post was edited by my2cents at January 2, 2019 7:15 PM MST
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