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I would like to see your definition of fascism under which the German government is proto-fascist.

• p-e-w 12d ago
  An authoritarian state that exercises oppressive power through legalistic institutions in league with a corporate oligarchy.
  • panarky 12d ago
    Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. Calling a solidly democratic nation "fascist" is a rhetorical reversal straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
    • antonkochubey 12d ago
      Germany’s last officially fascist government was democratically elected
      • panarky 12d ago
        Citation needed.
        • sekh60 11d ago
          For Hitler? He won the most seats of all the parties in the Reichstag in 1932 with 37 or so percent of the vote. That majority would normally have gotten him appointed as Chancellor (by tradition). He used violence and backroom dealing to get from that majority to become Führer, but without a doubt Hitler did get his foot into the door democratically.
          • panarky 11d ago
            He was never democratically elected.
    • p-e-w 11d ago
      > Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. According to what? Some think tank’s “democracy index”, carefully constructed to preserve the illusion that Western countries are free and democratic? That’s begging the question.
    • peterfirefly 11d ago
      Germany does not look "solidly democratic" from the outside.
      • ahartmetz 11d ago
        Source: Russia Today?