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In 1933 few people expected that 12 years later, no one would admit to being in the 43% that voted for the Nazi party. But in their defense they had no idea wha
by coldcode 10y ago
In 1933 few people expected that 12 years later, no one would admit to being in the 43% that voted for the Nazi party. But in their defense they had no idea what the future would hold, the economy was a disaster, the country downtrodden, and the Party kept the worst of their ideas rather quiet in the big cities. The problem here is different, but we still don't know where this will go, while we can see what was done so far we don't know if this is mild compared to the future or the worst is done.
Having said that, the time to deal with a despot of some kind is before it's too late, the problem is knowing when that is and not waiting until you can't do anything any more. Our system here was an amazing design for the 1780s but they couldn't know all the problems that would only appear 240 years later. At the start they weren't even sure it would last to the 2nd president.