And you all told me the blue maga border bill that Republicans rejected was 4d chess.

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    9 个月前

    Hitler was voted in.

    Part of the problem with the political system of fascism is that it leads to scapegoating and then genocide.

    We’ve got genocide right now, though.

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      9 个月前

      Hitler was voted in.

      Not quite. He was named chancellor. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler-1

      In 1932, Hitler ran against the war hero Paul von Hindenburg for president, and received 36.8 percent of the vote. … Though the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote at the height of their popularity in 1932, Hitler was able to grab absolute power in Germany largely due to divisions and inaction among the majority who opposed Nazism.

      But your point stands: Hitler gained power in a legitimate fashion. Chancellorship (it’s why that’s the fascist win condition in Secret Hitler, not Hitler being elected President). And then he took the rest of the power and made himself a dictator. Which is why we should be absolutely terrified of risking a Trump election. Giving him the pretense of legitimacy will only make it that much easier for him to take absolute power. And Trump has said he would. He said he’d be “dictator for a day”. Which is the biggest red flag possible.