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A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Here's a political history quiz for you:

What election was this?

The most controversial candidate made negative statements about women and minorities.
The same candidate advocated extreme measures to remove minorities from the country and limit citizenship for 'undesirable foreigners'.
This candidates' supporters engaged in violent confrontations with opponents' supporters at rallies and campaign functions.
While some media outlets labeled the candidate a clown, and made fun of him, others admired his forthrightness and predicted that he would 'shake things up'.
Unemployment was high that year, and national production was down. People were unhappy about the economic situation.
The candidate appealed to popular values shared by voters, such as patriotism and a sense of victimization.
The candidate was definitely NOT 'politically correct'. He insulted just about everybody.
The candidate was mocked by the elite for being vulgar, tasteless, and uneducated, but some of them secretly thought he might be a useful tool for controlling the masses.

All right, what year was this? And what country?

And what happened next?

smiley - dragon


A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

Post 2

KB

I'm going to treat the quiz as one long rhetorical question.

Things don't look pretty, do they? smiley - erm


A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

Post 3

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Nope. smiley - sigh


A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

Post 4

Gnomon - time to move on

I guess that this was Adolf Hitler, Germany, 1929.


A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

1932 was the one I was thinking about, but yeah, that's the feller. smiley - ok


A Political History Quiz Question (Not Icy's, Again)

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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit inconclusive
"The circumstances you pictured are with-the-fitting-perspective true for about half the African countries with doubtful democracies. Many Asian and South American countries could also fit the bill.
It may happen in Europe or North america as well.

Hmm, should we all emigrate to Austalia?

When did it happen? How about every second government voting.

What next? Most cases there are not much changes so 'everybody stays happy'. Sometimes civil war sometimes revolt every few decades some attempts to include one or more neighbours in their territory. (Falkland . . . Gulf war?)

Politics and history are not my thing I guess. "


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