• novibe@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Bro…… you can’t have a functioning democracy with an anti-democratic party freely participating in it. If a party’s explicit goal is to end democracy, they really SHOULDN’T be allowed to participate in democracy at all.

      Paradox of tolerance and all…

      Democracy shouldn’t be a free-for-all, where warlords can win enough votes to conquer the world. That is insane.

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      10 months ago

      You’re not banning part of the population from the polls, you’re removing anti-democratic elements. I’d argue this is an essential step for democracy to thrive.

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      10 months ago

      “[…] and its almost exclusively a phenomena specific to the left…”

      What about the KPD 1956 or the German Autumn then? This party and movement also represented

      “a portion of the population”

      that was excluded from polls or ‘participation’.

      The paradox of tolerance, the historical fragility of each rule of law, the separation of powers and the constitutional state ( ‘Rechtstaat’ ) render parties and movements whose alignment aim for the qualitative destruction of these markers of political entities built to survive more than one election as not just risks, but dangers to regional democracy.

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      Germany saw first-hand what happens when a far-right party is elected through democratic ways. They have all the reasons in the world to try to prevent it again.

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      10 months ago

      How is a diverse opinion a threat to democracy?

      If the opinion is that there should not be a democracy, then that is a threat to democracy.

      Excluding a portion of the population from the polls

      They are not excluded. They are free to vote for a party that is in line with the constitution.

      its almost exclusively a phenomena specific to the left…

      I don’t even know what to say. In which world are the far-right, fascists and nazis known to value opposing views? Are you serious?