Myth: Democracy elected Hitler to power.

This one is a long article about the backroom tricks of politics at the time of Hitler. Tricks that carried a menace to dictatorship. One particular paragraph is importand. For the rest of the article, here is the link. Please have a look at, at least...

"History reminds us that there is actually a spectrum of democracies, with strong democracies on one end, and weak democracies on the other. To the extent that democracies fail, it is because the will of the people is not being carried out. The U.S. offers this lesson itself. Blacks were forbidden to vote until 1870; women until 1920; poll-tax debtors until 1964; illiterates until 1965, young people until 1971. And how the U.S. treats its minorities today, as compared to 200 years ago, is like night and day. One remarkable fact remains: where there is a failure of democracy, there is usually a lack of democracy."