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>Democracy is also the only way to effectively stop armed revolutions. You phrase that as a positive, but it could also be phrased as a negative: Democracy all
by eurleif 15y ago
>Democracy is also the only way to effectively stop armed revolutions.
You phrase that as a positive, but it could also be phrased as a negative: Democracy allows evil people to rise to power without having to fight anyone to do it. Hitler was elected democratically.
- javert 15y agoHitler was elected democratically. That's not really the case. He got a fair amount of votes organically, but at some point he was just using violence and force to take power. Despite what I see as a flawed example, I agree with your point.
- eurleif 15y agoTrue, but I'm sure that using violence to gain the trust of the voters was substantially easier and less costly than using it to overthrow the German government would have been.
- javert 15y agoto gain the trust of the voters More like, to intimidate them. But yeah... the Nazis definitely did leverage the democratic process until they had sufficient power to take the rest.