Democracy and Vulnerability with the Student Council: A Roundtable Discussion

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I'm as depressed as the next progressive person about the results of the elections. But we have to remember that a swing of about 200,000 votes among several key swing states could have resulted in a democratic vctory, and yes, I did intend to write that with a small "d." Apparently the turnout among young people was disappointing in this election. The Right also made inroads into every other traditional Democratic constituency. The Nazi takeover in Germany was proceeded by a decade of economic hardship (astronomical inflation rates and high unemployment) and frequent urban street clashes between armed leftist and rightist partisans. So one can say that many Germans (but never more than 37%) viewed the Nazis as the lesser of two evils and finally bringing about peace and stability. Fifty percent of Americans apparently caved to fascism because eggs cost $4 a dozen.