Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.
@Strandjunker Biden won by 7 million vote in 2020 and yet his margin came down to about 120,000 votes in the electoral college - no one seems to give a rats arse (pardon my language) that the votes of 6.9 million Americans (1 out of every 20 votes) were stolen by the Republicans. I guess the idea of 1 vote 1 value never really caught on in the USA.
@Strandjunker it also applies to those who did vote. In times of crisis, is “vote harder” a winning message or is it exactly what the opposition has planned for?
@Strandjunker just a warning that in France, the participation to the legislative election of 2024 has never been so high since 1978, yet the fascist party is still ahead of both the left coalition and the president's coalition.
Look at the prescriptors. Ban Fox News.
That it's a lot of really good "me time" not having to make any life decisions the State Of Things will make for me?
Beyond just staying alive to serve, I mean.
Fact: the original Nazis were elected officials. There was no violent overthrow of government in 1933.
By all means vote tactically, vibrantly and profusely against modern-day Nazis, but the notion that that will be enough is 100% wrong now as it was then.
@Strandjunker ah, yes, how dare those people who couldn't vote because of Nazis, not vote because of Nazis. If only they'd voted harder, they could have voted Hitler out of power in the next election!
Even though he never actually won an election in the first place.
@Strandjunker Very valid point! Just to be exact the first free elections after 1932 took place in 1949 for West Germans and 1990(!) for East Germans. The East German elections from 1950 till 1989 were neither fair nor free. (Sorry for the well actually, I feel a bit bad)