10-16-2020, 09:49 PM
(10-16-2020, 09:03 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-16-2020, 02:23 AM)Isoko Wrote: I can tell you something - the Greek people will eventually vote for a very right wing populist party when that comes on the scene. It's Greece.
If and when they do, the precedent will have been set for suppressing opposition parties through government force. That's not good for democracy.
The German Federal Republic has outlawed practically every manifestation of the Nazi Party from the formation of the current Republic in 1948.
Political thuggery is not an expression of political freedom.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.