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    Today, German lawmakers are rewriting bylaws and pushing for constitutional amendments to ensure courts and state parliaments can provide checks against a future, more powerful AfD. Some have even launched a campaign to ban the AfD altogether.

    You see, democracy is when…

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      I’ll help you with this sentence:

      … it defends itself against an undemocratic power.

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            And it is fixed when you understand that it is a social contract. You breach the contract? Then tolerance no longer applies to you.

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          Yes. Democracy is when you refuse to allow the people a party that wants to dismantle the democratic state and bringing in nothing than hate to have a say in their systems of governance.

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              There is and never will be a perfect system of whatsoever. I’d rather watch them nazi party get forbidden than waiting for a solution that will come in place when it is already too late.

              And unless you aren’t a nazi, putin follower or trumpist, I don’t know why I even have to explain why a German future with a nazi party at its front will be no good for nobody.

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          Checks and balances are about preventing a small faction of the government from gaining absolute control of the entire government. It’s not about preventing a say, it’s about preventing a total takeover that prevents anyone else from having a say in the future.

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      L take. AES countries which are actual democracies do the same thing.

      Though of course, banning it isn’t gonna go anywhere for Germany unless they tackle the root cause of capitalism.