>After having read as much as I could stomach of Mein Kampf, I can add another lesson.
>If someone says malevolent and crazy things the default assumption should be that that person is evil and given the opportunity he'll try to put his evil ideas into practice.
>Just about everything that he did was predictable given what he wrote in Mein Kampf.

Uhhh, nope. That will leave you wide open to anybody spouting good stuff to get to power - and either have been lying from start or later changing his mind.

Seeing the ease of current admininstrations have to implement policies against the current laws and/or wishes the their respective populations (Maastricht, Dublin, Schengen), I am even more in favour of direct approaches like the swiss practice - in full knowledge of the fact that vox populi will utter and sometimes implement strange wishes in the process.

Checks and Balances seem to slip in the last decades. Do not revive Führer principle.