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In reply to the discussion: OWS has meant just as much - if not more- than the teabagger movement to politics... [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)merely observe that a hypothetical winner-take-all system with only two major parties (like ours) might have blocked the Nazis from power (assuming their 32% of the vote nationally was not substantially augmented by neo-Nazi Centre Party and deluded Labor Party voters). If, as common sense suggests, Centre and Labor had flocked to the single non-Nazi alternative, the Nazis would have lost in a landslide in any winner-take-all race.
N.B. I actually favor PR over our current antiquated and dilapidated system with its legacy throwbacks to antebellum fashion (got to keep the slaveowners happy) and anti-democratic stylings (California and Wyoming have equal representation in the U.S. Senate).
As for myself, I see the elite's support of the Nazis as 'necessary, but not sufficient.' It took a weasel like von Papen whispering in Hindenburg's ear to provide the necessary gravitas to make Hitler Chancellor.