Path: ...!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of 1950s Democracy Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:51:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:51:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="92966"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 1969 Lines: 18 According to rbowman : >On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:18:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Their voting system was put in place under Konrad Adenauer after World >> War II, and was designed specifically to ensure a dictator could never >> take power again. It worked so well, that’s why we in NZ copied it. > >Who knows what might have happened but in 1952 Stalin proposed reuniting >Germany with Germany becoming a neutral state not aligned with either >side. Adenauer turned down the offer ensuring over 30 years of misery for >the east. As one of my links pointed out reintegrating the east is still a >problem. Who knows. It worked surprisingly well for Austria in 1955. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly