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eurleif on March 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flouri...

True, but I'm sure that using violence to gain the trust of the voters was substantially easier and less costly than using it to overthrow the German government would have been.

javert on March 5, 2012 [–]

to gain the trust of the voters

More like, to intimidate them.

But yeah... the Nazis definitely did leverage the democratic process until they had sufficient power to take the rest.

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