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by anoncake 1914 days ago
I told you the facts. If you think you know better how my country and its culture work than I do and if you think you know our laws and the history behind them better than German lawyers and historians, I can't help you.

> As would the populace, who would just see unelected judges violating letter of the law to stop the people's will and protect the status quo.

Nope. It would see the most trusted state organ protecting the Basic Law. Which I've capitalized not because I can't spell but because it culturally has a somewhat similar status to the US Constitution in the USA.

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I am not talking about Germany at all, certainly not Germany of today. I think you missed that we are talking about a hypothetical future where a prospective dictator with overwhelming support is concentrating power. It already happened in my country; it's not happening in Germany and you correctly identified the reason ("It would see the most trusted state organ protecting the Basic Law."), not because of any entrenchment clause or even supposedly recursive entrenchment clause.
No, I think you missed that we were indeed talking about Germany.[1] If you want to change the topic, you should have said so :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578639