A New "Fuhrer?"

According to the Christian Science Monitor, 13% of Germans would welcome a new "Fuhrer" to rule the country. A decent percentage of Germans think Jews have too much influence in the country and believe that non-Christians have no place in Germany.

Germany is an odd country.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/1017/Germany-s-Angela-Merkel-Multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed

 

I bet the numbers would be similar in most European countries and the U.S. Just substitute leader with power to enact laws with Fuhrer.

 

Exactly my thought. Drop "fuhrer" and the US number would be higher.

 

Austria's much odder, and a huge contributing factor. No accident Adolph was Austrian.

 

Kind of like everyone loves the backup quarterback, right?

 

The percentage would be low in the United States right now because of who is President.

It would have been high in the United States from 2001-08.

 

I think it would skyrocket right now.

Go out and ask people if they would support centralizing power behind a good Christian who would make sure non-Christians have less influence. Bet you the number is higher than 13%.

 

Oh, right, right.

I was just thinking of the question as, "Would you support the President being able to unilaterally enact enforceable laws?"

 

I think the fact that Americans wanted to make Washington the king of the United States right after winning a war of independence from a monarch shows that there is an inclination for being paternally controlled fighting within most people against their inclinations for personal liberty.

I know Christopher Hitchens has always maintained that notion.

 

Based on reexamined demographic data, guesstimating that number at about 27%.

Fortunately, everyone else looks at that 27%, and when that 27% tries to endrun the will of the broad populace and win a general, the 73% goes, "No, no, no" (excepting 2000, but that was what that was).

 

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I lived there for 3 years recently and it's a cool country, with the top economy in Europe, I think.
People there are routinely furious about Russian immigrants who eat up tax-sponsored social welfare help.
They don't like most Muslims, who usually can be found sticking together and not standing up to decry the "fanatical, violent Muslims."
There is a wide range of incomes there, but the most can at least call themselves middle class.