[2banana]

Democracy without civil rights is two wolves and sheep deciding on what they are going to eat for dinner.

Remember - the Nazis also won the popular vote.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Democracy without civil rights is two wolves and sheep deciding on what they are going to eat for dinner.

Remember - the Nazis also won the popular vote.”

I like to point out to people that if we had a pure democracy, African-Americans and Jews would have been deported to Africa and Palestine respectively in the 1930’s, because the majority of Americans thought that this was a good idea, according to polls taken at the time. Of course, had they had their way, I would be writing this in German now, if at all.

[Belteshazzar]

“Remember - the Nazis also won the popular vote.”

Actually, no, they didn’t. They achieved only a plurality. Their greatest vote total, in the last election held under Nazi government, was about 44% in March of 1933.

[Cronos]

The Nazis in 32 won the largest single number of votes (33% or something), not the outright majority

The Moslem brotherhood's rise reminds me of the Bolsheviks in 1917 and the Ayatollah in 1979

In both cases, a dictator is overthrown by a rag-tag bunch of opposition forces, but then the most ruthless and fanatical party defeats the others because it has a strong core-message even if in raw numbers it is smaller than the others