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n0ire wrote:

In each of these cases, people believed that the destruction of democracy was impossible. They believed that Law and Voting would right things, that only a small minority held extreme views and that it was only the rabble who were moved to give up the responsibilities along with the rights of citizenship. That educated, reasonable people would always win their defense of the electoral system that was the bedrock of the State. And in these cases (and others as well) the educated, reasonable people found out far too late that they were wrong, that their democracy had died while they believed themselves to be unassailable.

Maybe, maybe this time we can yell out BEFORE it is too late--This has happened before. And every time it has ended in disaster for those who believe in freedom, in the Rights of Man (sorry, but the resonance with the documents of that name takes precedence over gender-neutral language,) in the notion of rational thought and responsible government.