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> more and more people keep voting for the far-right (or far-left FWIW) There are obvious problems with that tactic. (Do they not have civics classes in any of
by aebtebeten 3y ago
> more and more people keep voting for the far-right (or far-left FWIW)
There are obvious problems with that tactic. (Do they not have civics classes in any of these countries anymore?)
The mechanism described above is exactly what happened in the 1932 German Federal elections: "The Nazis and KPD [communists] held over half of the seats in the Reichstag. This made it impossible to form a government composed of moderates."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_election#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_elect...
It didn't end well for the Germans.