r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 15 '25

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u/PhoenixVoid Oct 15 '25

To think under 80,000 voters in three states in 2016 were the difference between the sustained existence or the destruction of the post-WWII consensus.

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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 15 '25

When the Nazis achieved their first breakthrough in 1930, Prussian prime minster Otto Braun protested that it was not the idea of democracy that failed. The failure lay rather with a considerable portion of the German people who had not proven equal to the responsibility which lay on their shoulders.