Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "DAMN: Chomsky Likens #NeverBiden to Nazi Enablers" video.
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I love Chomsky, but Germany had numerous parties, at the time. You could blame the Centre Party for not forming a coalition, or the German National People's Party, or the Bavarian People's Party, etc. Numerous combinations of parties could have formed a coalition with more seats than the Nazis. You could also blame the Social Democrat Party, itself, for breaking with its roots, leading to members breaking off and forming the Communist Party, in the first place. "Social democrat" and "democratic socialist" meant the same thing, originally. But, even though the Social Democrat Party didn't drop Marxism from their platform until the 50s, they started moving towards the right during WWI. During WWI, they tossed out any anti-war members of the party, which led to a split and two Social Democrat parties, MSPD and USPD. Then came the German Revolution and the overthrow of the monarchists. The SPD leadership sided with centrists, conservatives, and former Imperial Officers in the military, against workers wanting production nationalized and overseen by direct democracy ... exactly what "social democrat" was supposed to be, at the time ... and a democratic military, with officers elected by their men. SPD betrayed their base, just like Democrats did, long ago. You can't do that, and keep expecting those you're betraying to blindly follow.
The clearest blame, is that it was the fault of all the morons or assholes, who actually voted for the Nazis. Seriously, you're still going to have a country with a large population of fascist morons and assholes. Why? And how do you get rid of them, rather than continuously just choosing a lesser of two evils to try and win a few more seats than them for a few years?
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