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As per your own source, competing parties made up over 60% of legislators. The "largest party" is not much of a win when they lost the election for head of stat
by Manuel_D 3y ago
As per your own source, competing parties made up over 60% of legislators. The "largest party" is not much of a win when they lost the election for head of state, and non-Nazis won the majority of seats.
- hollerith 3y agoThe party in power since 2021 in Germany (the SPD) won only 25.7% of the vote, so by analogy with your position that "the Germans did not elect the Nazis into power," do you also hold that the Germans did not elect the SPD into power in 2021? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_German_federal_election#:~:text=With%2025.7%25%20of%20total%20votes%2C%20the%20Social%20Democratic%20Party%20of%20Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_German_federal_election#:... If not, what is the difference that makes them different for you?
- Manuel_D 3y agoThe SPD leads the ruling coalition of parties. The Germans elected a variety of parties and SPD leads the ruling coalition of parties. By comparison the Nazis did not form such a ruling coalition, and seized power by force later - not democratically. My whole point, from beginning of this comment chain, is that the Nazis did not achieve rule democratically. They won parliamentary seats, but failed for form a coalition (at least not until they took power by force and effectively rigged elections).