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Many delude themselves into believing Hitler was not elected in a massive landslide.

The fact is he received a vast majority of votes.

About the same margin Hamas won with the Palies, come to think of it.

Hitler did not win in a landslide. He never even won a majority. When he ran for President, he lost badly to Hindenburg. His National Socialist party never won more than 37% of the vote in parliamentary elections, and never won a majority of seats in parliament (Reichstag).

After a trumped-up crisis over the burning of the Reichstag, Hitler persuaded the Reichstag to grant him emergency powers under an “... 'Enabling Act' which made Hitler dictator of Germany, freed of all legislative and constitutional constraints."

Government is America is already largely free of Constitutional constraints, and 0bama is using a trumped-up economic crisis to demand extraordinary powers which will probably make every citizen subservient to the government, and will destroy political opposition as did the Nazis. That's what we should really be thinking about today.

Many delude themselves into believing Hitler was not elected in a massive landslide.

If you have evidence to the contrary, present it.

I believe that Germany didn't simply become Nazi because of Hitler any more than America is now Democrat because of Odmama.

There were good German people who wanted nothing to do with the Nazi insanity.

No "delusion" required; it's simply a fact. Hitler never received a "vast majority of votes" in a German national election.

In the last truly free German election (November, 1932), the Nazis received 33.1% of the total, which was the largest share of any single party, but was actually a poorer showing than they had had in the previous election.

The election of March, 1933, after Hitler's appointment to the chancellorship, was not really free. The leadership of the communist party had been arrested, and the leadership of the social democrat party had left the country. (Those were the Nazis' closest competitors.) The election was "monitored" by SS and SA pollwatchers in much of Germany. Campaigning by parties other than the Nazis was restricted.

Despite this, the Nazis only managed to win 43.9% of the vote -- still not a majority, much less a vast majority.

By July of 1933, all political parties other than the Nazis had either been absorbed by the NSDAP, had voted themselves out of existence, or were legally banned. There were no more elections in Germany until 1949.

It doesn't take a "vast majority of votes" for a democracy to turn into a brutal dictatorship.