Democracy usually means people can vote and the majority wins. But sometimes the majority can be questionable, such as the Brotherhoods in the Middle East, and 75 years ago the Nazis in Germany. Freedom is grand. However, free to do what, by whom, and where? Even in the democracies of the west it seems that the majorities push toward liberalism and socialism for the low information people who desire to be taken care of much more than reasonable, affordable. It seems too many do not believe in individualism and capitalism, the entrepreneurial spirit. Thomas Sowell has written a profound piece about democracy and freedom in the Middle East. Followed by an essay in The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Middle East 'democracy' has not brought greater freedom ... http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/05/middle-east-democracy-has-not-brought-greater-freedom "Those who applauded the spread of democracy in the Middle East seemed to assume that the Arab Spring meant greater freedom. But there was no reason to assume that beforehand and certainly no reason to believe it after the fact. Christians in Egypt have already lost whatever security they had under Hosni Mubarak". ..."Most Western nations had freedom long before they had democracy. Women have been voting in the United States less than a century. But, even before women could vote in England or America, they had freedoms that women in many Middle Eastern countries can only dream about today." The Struggle For Middle East Democracy http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articledetails.aspx?aid=20 "It always seemed as if Arab countries were on the brink. It turns out that they were. And those who assured us that Arab autocracies would last for decades, if not longer, were wrong. In the wake of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, academics, analysts and certainly Western policymakers must reassess their understanding of a region entering its democratic moment. "What has happened since January disproves longstanding assumptions about how democracies canand shouldemerge in the Arab world. Even the neo-conservatives, who seemed passionately attached to the notion of democratic revolution, told us this would be a generational struggle. Arabs were asked to be patient, and to wait. In order to move toward democracy, they would first have to build a secular middle class, reach a certain level of economic growth, and, somehow, foster a democratic culture. It was never quite explained how a democratic culture could emerge under dictatorship."
BUT they participated in the German elections. On 13 March 1932 Hitler won 11,339,446 votes, about 30 percent of the votes, Hindenburg failed to achieve a majority of 50 percent of the total vote and other elections required the following month. Next round Hitler won 36 percent of the votes. President Hindenburg did not know what to do. Politically, one could not but Hitler function, therefore on 30 January 1933 Hitler became Prime Minister of Germany. Palestinians continue the path of Hitler spread hatred and evil on the Internet against the Jews and against Zionism.
