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
And a casual reminder that thanks to the way the Weimar Republic was structured and fundamentally flawed, it is not the democratic process that failed. It's the autocratic reign of Paul von Hindenburg, complete with Franz von Papen's persuasion that they'd sideline Hitler within a year. The Nazis never gained a majority of the seats in the Reichstag and in 1932 the German people were starting to reject them - the share declined due to the improving economic situation and NSDAP was bankrupt. As usual, it's the rich assholes manipulating the system who gave the worst among us power.

It's a pet peeve, but I really wish people stopped using anti-democratic canards like "Germans didn't vote hard enough and we got Hitler".
@redyoshi49q