I‘m wondering if there were still people in Germany in 1933 who loudly abstained from voting because “the choice between NSDAP and everything else is like the choice between pest and cholera” and “voting does not really change anything”.
And did they feel some smug justification that “the political class” failed? #Trump#Biden
Because it was Parliamentary rather than our system, it was more about directing their votes for/within the coalitions. Within the analogy you made, this was Thalmann's theory when he was explaining why Nazis were the better option.
Although most parties thought that they would all be "next" after the Nazi collapse, Ernest Thalmann was the one who explicitly sought to ally with Hitler to destroy liberal democracy ("the political class") because he thought it would just hurt "the right people".
For his trouble, he was among the first thrown in prison and was one of the few for whom Hitler specifically ordered the execution.
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