INB4 tHEyrE AUthORiTaRiAn
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You can guarantee yourself Hitler, or you can pragmatically choose Hindenburg and give your country a chance.
Or, maybe, you could actively resist the system that gets you Hitler no matter who you vote for through direct action and organizing?
Yeah, but maybe give yourself more time to do that by, for example, not electing Hitler.
You wouldn't really be getting more time though. Fascism is capitalism self-preservation response, if you started successfully mass-organizing under Hindenburg, the state would start putting in a lot of the same policies Hitler did later on. You need to act decisively and with enough force to overpower the state. Mind you, it's not exactly like the means the Nazis seized power was especially legitimate.