I’m quoting myself from half a year ago:
I’m using the following argument sparingly because it’s commonly known to derail a thread in an instant but I think this time it’s appropriate:
I’d like to ask you a simple question: Who is made responsible for Hitler? Ask anyone - especially a Brit or USian and he will tell you “the Germans”. He was voted to office. There was a size-able opposition, namely from the Social Democrats (SPD) but ultimately everyone was responsible for the things that they didn’t prevent.
You and your fellow countrymen/women ARE responsible. You personally didn’t vote for X but it’s your democratically elected government and you did nothing to prevent the things done in your name. Inaction made you complicit. Whats making the situation worse is that the US citizen re-elected Bush and Obama knowing full well what kind of agenda and policy he had. Voting for a shitty politician could happen and is far more excusable than seeing he is full of shit and THEN re-electing him - that makes you (as a US citizen) even more responsible.
So don’t tell me, a german citizen, that you are not responsible for your government. You are. I’m being made responsible for a government my own grandfather didn’t vote for!
