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by southernplaces7
630 days ago
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>And the former won power in the first place in a democracy. No actually, despite all their massive propaganda drives, the Nazis never won through elections. They just could't get enough votes to do so and instead used backroom maneuvering with other established politicians to gain the chancellorship appointment (not election) for Hitler so that he could use that to manipulate existing laws into forming a one party dictatorship. The relevance of this is there for my earlier point: Even in such a case, the real danger was government and its legal powers to suppress, coerce and repress, not so much an organization's ability to spew out bad information and propaganda. |
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a Nazi-DNVP coalition did, in fact, secure a majority in the snap elections called immediately after the one in which the Hitler-led Nazi-DNVP minority coalition came to power, and it wasn't until after they did the Hitler established totalitarian control.
(Of course, winning the largest share of seats, and forming a minority coalition because no group of other parties can form a majority coalition and you are able to secure the support of the elected head of state is also winning through elections, even if it isn't a commanding mandate. Systems of choosing a government by elections that can have ambiguous results usually have a set of methods of resolving them, and securing the position in the election from which to emergy victorious from the ambiguous-results-resolution system is still winning through elections.)