palou said:
It matters in how difficult it would be for a government to be able to do that. How much reach/power they need to accumulate within it.
It's quite pointless to criticize a law based on the the manners in which an extremist party could abuse it once said party holds a stranglehold of all sectors of governance; because at that point, said extremist party could bend the laws as they see fit, regardless.
The legislature that was put in place to facilitate the suppression of extremist parties, particularly of far right nationalists, was set up at a time when all agreed that the danger was evident and large enough for its suppression to be of constitutional significance to the new republic. |
That is true. But I think it's the principle of making a party unconstitutional that is wrong.
I agree that it can make sense in the aftermath of a world war to make the responsible party unconstitutional, but to still have it be that so many years later, is grotesque.
It's not like Germany has less right wing extremism than other western countries where you can use the symbolism whatever way you like. Germany is doing nrather poor in that regard.
