How much of this is just in peoples heads? Inertia in the system is immense, and things will remain pretty much unchanged on the whole. Of course there will be minor things which will be blown up to gargantuan proportions by the media and the opposition, but how much of this will actually affect people's everyday life? What happened now is just a rebound from the left swing which swept over Europe during the previous mandate periods. The average guy on the street eventually got fed up with all the empty promises made by the people previously in power, and now went for the empty promises by the guys now in power. This is what democracy will do to you. Let the masses decide, and you will always have a pretty big (though not majority) part of the masses muttering over the fact that they didn't get their way. If you want political stability get an enlightened dictatorship of other similar means of government. Good oldfashioned monarchy, then you know what you have for the coming generation or two, whether you like it or not.
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Date: 2006-09-18 09:21 pm (UTC)What happened now is just a rebound from the left swing which swept over Europe during the previous mandate periods. The average guy on the street eventually got fed up with all the empty promises made by the people previously in power, and now went for the empty promises by the guys now in power.
This is what democracy will do to you. Let the masses decide, and you will always have a pretty big (though not majority) part of the masses muttering over the fact that they didn't get their way. If you want political stability get an enlightened dictatorship of other similar means of government. Good oldfashioned monarchy, then you know what you have for the coming generation or two, whether you like it or not.