Iâm a bug eater just cuz they have it coming
Looks like youâre German from a brief glance at your comment history?
The 1932 elections were such a perfect counterexample to your point.
Ironically enough, the 1932 presidential election was the last direct presidential election yâall had, and the Nazi Party lost the election.
How is that a counterexample? The people who voted for Hitler were Nazis, my point still stands. Hindenburg was the centrist choice at the time, yes. However, he wasnât a centrist, but a rightist (is that a word?). He was much more afraid of the Commies than of the Nazis. This is what led to him later betraying the people that elected him by making Hitler chancellor, giving power to exactly the one person his voters so desperately tried to keep out of it.
Hindenburg was the centrist choice at the time, yes. However, he wasnât a centrist
Woah, woah, woah. Is he a centrist or not? I think youâre just retroactively labeling him a ârightistâ because he let the Nazis gain power, despite being elected on the premise that he was opposed to them.
Thereâs a reason people here say that liberalism is the moderate wing of fascism, and itâs that when it really matters, liberals will choose the fascists over anything remotely resembling communism time and again.
Hindenburg was an Aristocrat, highly conservative and pretty libertarian. He disapproved of the Nazis, but resented communists. In any other context, you wouldnât even consider calling him a centrist, only in the previously mentioned election could he seem as one, with the other two candidates being a communist and a nazi. Had there also been a social democrat candidate, thats who Iâd call the closest thing to a centrist. Such a candidate would not have cooperated with the Nazis any more than with the commies, maybe it would have worked out. Weâll never know.
So I guess the main thing Iâm disagreeing with you on is, that I donât consider libertarians to be centrists. In my eyes they too are extremists, maybe not quite as overtly dangerous as Nazis and Commies, but definitaly just as much a threat to democracy and society.
