• saimen@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    The Weimarer Republic was a very young democracy, it existed only for 15 years and before that Germany was a monarchy. Trump is dismantling the oldest democracy at the moment

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      3 hours ago

      To add to what you’re saying, the Weimar republic was not a really a democracy when Hitler got in power; it was already ruled by decree, with a reactionary minority (Hindenburg, Papen, Schleicher and al) aiming to ignore parliament and preserve the nobility.

      In early 1933 a German observer might have hoped the authoritarian trend was just a temporary thing and the presidential clique would have to bend to the parliament eventually, since they were continually losing support.

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t think the US is the oldest democracy as San Marino has been around for a long ass time.

      When exactly you consider San Marino an Independent entity could be debated but def older than the US.

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        15 hours ago

        To be fair, that country has a population of 30K. For comparison, my town’s population is 200K. But still an interesting case nonetheless.

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          I think at the time they didn’t believe a republic could really work for a large expansive country and would just use it for smaller city states. Hence why Florence and Venice and San Marino were Republics but then Naples and Sicily were monarchies.