Mob rule only works well if the majority of people have decent morals. What if 90% of the population agree to execute homosexuals or certain ethnicities? I believe laws must be put in place to protect the minority from the majority.
Mob rule only works well if the majority of people have decent morals. What if 90% of the population agree to execute homosexuals or certain ethnicities? I believe laws must be put in place to protect the minority from the majority.
The high majority of people do have decent morals.
I can personally guarantee to you that 90% of the population will never agree to genocide or any other nonsense.
If Hitler had only 39% support with all the coercion , manipulation and violence that he wielded. Besides the core of the Nazis had only 1-2% of the population, before the elections. Of course after that the SS membership was mandatory in some jobs. So only about 1-2% of the population was hardcore Nazis, and another 38% were fooled into being, due to the unfortunate circumstances:
Of course Hitler made all of them worse, and his solution was to murder half of Europe, but that is not the point.
The point is that, Hitler had a huge advantage, because demagogues gain power exactly in harsh conditions.
And everything aligned up for him, and he could only convince 39% of the population to vote for him, and also let's not forget that most votes were coerced, and they also did voter fraud.
So as I am telling you, the hardcore Nazis are only 1-2% of the population, even in a devastated country despite all the propaganda.
So how can you say that 90% of the people could adhere to an extreme ideology, when even the Nazis had only 2% of the population as fanatics?