Things that changed here in Germany (which I can think of off the top of my head):
No presidential role. We don’t have a single person with that much power anymore. The most powerful is the chancellor now.
No emergency laws. Many nations have laws that when something goes wrong, their president gets superpowers to do whatever they want. This is regularly abused, not just by Hitler. To my knowledge, we don’t currently have any such law.
Secret voting. It is now illegal to make it public who you voted for. When Hitler rose to power, Nazis would sit in voting places and pressure people to vote for Hitler. And they would heckle people who didn’t want to show their ballot card.
Having said all that, it should also be said that we do still currently have a very real Nazi problem. It’s a few steps in the right direction, but no silver bullet.
The US has had “secret voting” laws for a while, and although it’s not illegal to say you voted for X, it is illegal for anyone to pressure you into voting a certain way.
The emergency laws seems like an interesting one because whatever its plausible justification, in practice, it seems like the only downside it would curb would be moreso any governmental liabillity for lawsuits and judicial review.
If the government wants to do something, it will do it and the courts will maybe take it up later. Any measure they say the needed to do they would probably just do anyway regardless of the true necessity or for whom it was evaluated in that light, the only benefit to an emergency law in that context seems to be dissolution of regular liabillity and having a talking point about being justified after the fact.
Seems like it incentivizes an opening for bad behavior
Things that changed here in Germany (which I can think of off the top of my head):
Having said all that, it should also be said that we do still currently have a very real Nazi problem. It’s a few steps in the right direction, but no silver bullet.
Nearly every country in the world is experiencing a shift to the right and it’s accelerating.
The US has had “secret voting” laws for a while, and although it’s not illegal to say you voted for X, it is illegal for anyone to pressure you into voting a certain way.
The emergency laws seems like an interesting one because whatever its plausible justification, in practice, it seems like the only downside it would curb would be moreso any governmental liabillity for lawsuits and judicial review.
If the government wants to do something, it will do it and the courts will maybe take it up later. Any measure they say the needed to do they would probably just do anyway regardless of the true necessity or for whom it was evaluated in that light, the only benefit to an emergency law in that context seems to be dissolution of regular liabillity and having a talking point about being justified after the fact.
Seems like it incentivizes an opening for bad behavior