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The Nazis have a mixed record. They did some stuff really well, like environmental policy, and we still use some of their controversial research.

However, to a Platonist, the bigger point is this: totalitarianism is unstable. It seems to be strong power, but is in fact not, which is why Hitler and Stalin spent a lot of time and effort managing internal politics instead of focusing on things like winning the war and providing food, respectively.

Totalitarianism fails to spark joy because the only goal is the system itself. This produces not so much misery as listlessness, which is why totalitarian societies all militarize.

The Nazis were far ahead of, for example, the Soviets. The USSR only kept going because the Western democracies subsidized it while pretending to fight it.

However, the Nazis were made in the model of the French Revolution and Napoleon, as is our current society, and this made them unstable.

We need realists.

Between anarchy and totalitarianism there is a happy medium without the insanity of democracy, which in the end calculus is just an early form of totalitarianism.

I also object to the brutality of the Nazis, including the Holocaust (a slave labor program which killed up to 340k Jews through starvation and disease), but note that the damages of democracy, when toted up, will dwarf any damage the Nazis did or could have done with their plans.