Tristan SnellHitler was elected chancellor of Germany with only 43.9% of the vote.
But because the anti-Hitler forces were divided, Hitler won.
Hitler then made himself dictator and abolished free elections.
ScottS
Gene Thomas @Scotts @tristansnell
Sorry, pet peeve: Democrat refers to an individual, the party as a whole is Democratic. Republicans have pushed the Democrat term into general use.
Sorry, pet peeve: Democrat refers to an individual, the party as a whole is Democratic. Republicans have pushed the Democrat term into general use.
🟦🧙🏻simp@tristansnell the NSDAP in 1933 had a lot more than double the votes of the next party (SPD). More than four parties along the whole political spectrum (communists, socialists, nationalists, christians, etc.) would have needed to form a coalition to stop Hitler from becoming chancellor. 43.9% rivals the majorities the CDU had in the 1950s and since 1987 no party ever had majority that large. The number seems small to people from the US, but in real democracies this is a decisive victory.
Aaron@shinjiikarus @tristansnell I think the point is that we have enough crazies here to push through a victory for fascism if we don't stick together.
@tristansnell much more frightening are the election results of fall 1932, when the NSDAP had a much smaller majority with 33.1%, but found a coalition partner in the capitalistic-christian Zentrum-party. This is the much more frightening scenario for our times, where a far right party is winning by only a small margin and carried over the finish line by some opportunistic capitalists and religious zealots vying for power.
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Game8oy_ROCK@tristansnell sounds familiar...uhmmmm let me think while I watch Adolf Trump on TV...
Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦@tristansnell exactly 45s intention to remove elections as he intends to be the only person in charge of everything and everybody and anything they own...
David Mitchell 
This *shouldn’t* have been a surprise to anyone… as early as 1923 he was saying:
“Two years of democracy have lost us Silesia, the Rhine and the Ruhr. Our demoralized party system is a symptom of our disease. What can the present government do? Nothing. It has no permanent support anywhere. Parliamentary majorities fluctuate with the mood of the moment. Parliamentary government is the spawn of hell.”
- October 1923 The American Monthly
Keith Ammann @ GameStorm@tristansnell Correction: Hitler was not ELECTED chancellor. He ran for president and lost—but was then APPOINTED chancellor by the winner, incumbent president Paul von Hindenburg, who at that point was 84, tired of the job, and unhappy that he had to rely on liberal support to win while conservative voters ditched him for the Nazis.
The point about the divided opposition stands. A center-left coalition could have won, but the Communists wouldn't support anyone except their own candidate.
Patricia Kayden@tristansnell And this is why voting for 3rd parties like the Green Party (and Jill Stein) is so dangerous. Voting for 3rd parties allows Trump to squeeze his bigoted behind into the White House like he did in 2016.
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@kaydenpat @tristansnell Sure the two-party system has wrought nothing but misery, but that's just because we haven't two-partied HARD enough yet! Outlaw 3rd parties!
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@shi @tristansnell I’m not throwing away my vote in a third party when a literal fascist could win. Vote blue. It’s a simple choice. This isn’t complicated. Blocked.
sOlOw-NHThe electoral college... abused by the guy who brought forth trump university...the irony.
Arcana 
@tristansnell if there hadn’t been an ability to vote, he’d have received 0% of the vote
@tristansnell genuinely, people like this simultaneously hold the view that democracy is good, but also that it is only ever a single election away from millions of people being murdered because five people voted for a third party rather than the compromise “lesser evil”