alt Hacker News“ The most famous dictatorship of the previous century was also democratically elected.”
And how did it go from a democracy to a dictatorship? Because he convinced the people to give up their rights in response to a perceived threat.
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saubeidl • last Saturday at 1:27 PM
No, actually, through a campaign of propaganda that wasn't stopped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
Goebbels himself remarked how stupid the institutions were for granting them freedom of speech:
> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then- yeah, you gave it to us, that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are!
-- Joseph Goebbels, 1935
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It took many steps, not just a convenient on-topic one. And among those many steps, the US has taken most of them at this stage.