i love saying that germany should have been turned into israel, but ultimately ethnostates shouldn’t exist.
While this is true, I can also understand why Jews after WW2 might think "Maybe what we need is our own state with its own military."
That being said, my limited understanding was that South Germany voted strongly against the Nazis, so a new Israel should have been carved out of Northern Germany, connecting from the Netherlands to Poland, the 2 countries with the highest concentrations of Jews in pre-WW2 Europe. This would have opened things up logistically, culturally, and diplomatically for Jews who wanted to return to places they had been removed from due to the Nazis. Making Germans dependent on this new Israel for access to the sea might also have taught them a valuable lesson in humility.
Well, it's people might be better off under pretty much any parliamentary system but each parliamentary system has its benefits and detriments. No system is really immune though because of ruling classes and culture.
If you want to see what it might have looked like if the USA had been parliamentary all along, Canada might be the best example. Multiple parties, but first past the post, so in any given region it's typically one of two entrenched parties unless people get really pissed. Also, lots of horrendous abuses of First Nations people so not a whole lot better.
Proportional voting parliamentary systems tend towards giving the people what they want most, but their efficacy tends to be based largely on what people want. Consider Israel where the Knesset is proportional: It's permitting a genocide. Simultaneously Germany uses a similar system. Not permitting a genocide but rather enabling one and suppressing the voices of those against enabling a genocide.
Yeah, that's what they said about Shireen Abu Akleh too. Lucy teeing up the football again.
Unfortunately I think a good percentage of people on Lemmy, especially in lemmy.world, are quite comfortable with that
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