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Nobody wants full democracy. Full democracy is what allowed Hitler to get away with gassing six million Jews, just because the majority of the population agreed
by logicchains 5y ago
Nobody wants full democracy. Full democracy is what allowed Hitler to get away with gassing six million Jews, just because the majority of the population agreed it was a good idea at the time. Now Germany has very strict constitutional protections of certain rights to make it very hard for the majority to violate the minority like that again. State rights act similarly, protecting the populations of individual states to some degree from the arbitrary whims of the majority.
- pessimizer 5y agoThis wouldn't help Jews in WWII because Jews weren't grouped into a single German electoral region. If you spread 49.9% of the population evenly in a system where states vote rather than individuals, you've insured that this minority gets no representation.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago>Full democracy is what allowed Hitler to... What election are you referring to where the Germans democratically gave Hitler power? His best "fair" election results saw his party get ~35% of the vote, and he only got the largely ceremonial chancellorship through backdoor deals. By the time he became president nobody could consider the elections fair.