hitler was elected democratically doesnt it mean democracy can create dictators?

Answer 1

Not democracy, but poverty and revenge.
He'd promised to undo the T. of Versailles, which led him to mass support -not to mention the tricks he played later to gain much more support.

Answer 2

That is very true. Having a democratic government doesn't necessarily mean that you won't have a dictator. Just look at many third-world countries today. Although they are democratic, with democratically elected leaders, their check and balances and politics are not well developed as compared with the U.S. In these countries, chances are high that one elected leader will abuse his power, simply because the bounds of the law is not clearly defined. An elected leader can literally abuse his power by circumventing the loopholes in the very laws that are supposed to limit his power.

Answer 3

The moral of the story in the Adolf Hitler story is that many of the worlds dictators have been elected by the people initially. When they refuse to give up the position, that is the road they followed to become dictators.

President for life, isnt that a familiar term?

Answer 4

Hitler was, unfortunately for the world, a savvy politician.

He set himself up in a country that was handled by an ineffective democratic government in a country with no democratic tradition, and thus no faith in elected officials.

He promised people a restoration of their pride taken away by the Versailles treaty. His extremist racial views were dismissed in many cases because many Germans were sure it could never come to pass in 'civilized' Germany. Moreover, Germany had a great fear of Russian Communism, and the Communist Party was doing well in the poverty-stricken 20s and 30s. Hitler offered the choice 'me, or communism', and many people voted for what they saw as strength and protection.

So he played to fear and pride, essentially, in order to get elected (with, it must be added, a lot of voter intimidation and brownshirt stormtroopers everywhere beating up political opponents in the streets.)

Answer 5

You might want to do some research as to why Hitler was elected. He didn't exactly run on the dictator take over the world platform.

Answer 6

Just because one thing follows another thing does not mean it was caused by that thing. That would be a classic scientific fallacy. Is democracy prone to being overthrown by a dictatorship? Yes. Is a republic? Yes. Is any form of government? Yes. So in actuality it suggests nothing except that, like all other political intitutions, democracy is prone to being overthrown.

Answer 7

Dictators, whether Fascist or Communist, have always used whatever means necessary to seize power, whether in through the front door, bluntly, with a coup, or through the back door, with 'elections', that are skewed in their favor and usually only happen once.
Africa is a textbook example of thugs - like Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe - seizing power through democratic 'elections', and then robbing their host nations blind.

Answer 8

He changed. A friends grand mother actually voted for him. They said he came off great promising all sorts of things. He failed to mention his plans or how he'd do it. She said when they started the Holocaust she knew she made the wrong vote. Nothing wrong with nationalism in my book, if the Nazis hadn't been totalitarian they would have been OK and still around today...

Just because there has been a few flaws don't give up on it. The alternative sux...

Answer 9

this democracy does have a dictator its called the IRS, The Republican Party, and yes--even the Democratic party.

Answer 10

Yes, democracy is a vulnerable governing system, it is easily turned into a dictatorship. it is very common in 3rd world countries, where a democratically elected government turns into a dictatorship, with "fixed" elections to preserve the pretense of democracy.