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by philwelch 3236 days ago
> Which system is better only time will tell, but what's happening in the USA right now does not have a parallel in Europe.

Likewise, a lot of what's happened in Europe does not have a parallel in the USA. Elections have been seriously contested and sometimes won by the likes of Golden Dawn, Le Pen--both father and daughter--the BNP, Alessandra Mussolini, Jorg Haider, and so forth. Sure, in Europe you don't have a hundred white nationalists marching down the street carrying swastika flags, but you have an awful lot of them in the European Parliament.
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jacquesm 3236 days ago
> you have an awful lot of them in the European Parliament.

We're working on it. The last batch of elections was pretty scary but so far so good. If WWII wasn't enough to teach the world a lasting lesson you have to wonder how bad it would have to get before we will. Quite possibly it can not be done and we will occasionally revert to type.

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InitialLastName 3236 days ago
The scary thing is that WWII is quickly passing out of living memory. In the next 20 years, there will start to be a critical mass of voters who have never MET anyone who was an adult in WWII.
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jacquesm 3236 days ago
I suspect this is a large driver behind what we are seeing today.
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