i sort of think if you dont trust your people to not vote for Bad People why are you even bothering with voting like you get to vote in China too
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Replying to @ulfgardleo @eigenrobot
history lesson: the majority of the German parliament was split between communist (the real ones) KPD and the Nazis. The christs signaled they would vote for Goering, the center/left could not unite behind KPD and then the Nazis were in charge without a majority.
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Replying to @ulfgardleo @eigenrobot
Hilter used his power to declare emergency laws, dissolve parliament and banned public gatherings. In what followed, he won the "election" which was not so hard since the KPD could not really participate in it anymore.
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Replying to @ulfgardleo
if im understanding this correctly the lesson is to do what hitler did and block your opponents from political participation
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Yes, but the way he achieved that was (since the president was not as powerful) to club the member sof KPD to death. The SS as part of the NSDAP (so no governmental institution) was on the streets killing people. The lessons were "Wehrhafte Demokratie":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy#Germany …
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Replying to @ulfgardleo @eigenrobot
That's actually a really interesting principal. Comes off as really weird to me, an American. And I'm not sure our political institutions are well adapted toward that level of defensiveness. But it's really nifty all the same, so thanks for sharing.
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Replying to @soft_fox_lad @eigenrobot
TBH your system has its own stability mechanism: as basicalkly only 2 parties can exist, the range of publicly acceptable positions is very limited. if you can't win against a democrat, don't be anti-democratic.
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but think about a system that would allow a split of republicans between trump/non-trump. this would shift votes from democrats to republicans and you could end in a 20 Trump/40 rep/40dem split. if dem/rep can't work together, the trump party decides what is enacted.
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in a 20/40/40 system it would be impossible for trump to win the presidency tho, and probably very hard to win seats in the senate as well that would be a major impediment for enacting any kind of trumpist policy
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