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>Democracy is also the only way to effectively stop armed revolutions.

You phrase that as a positive, but it could also be phrased as a negative: Democracy allows evil people to rise to power without having to fight anyone to do it. Hitler was elected democratically.



Hitler was elected democratically.

That's not really the case. He got a fair amount of votes organically, but at some point he was just using violence and force to take power.

Despite what I see as a flawed example, I agree with your point.


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.


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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