| badgenome said: Do keep in mind that people do eventually throw failures out of office. And, in extreme cases, they may even kill them. Powermongers want to be within the halls of power. They may very well be all for a more powerful government, but for them having a more powerful government of which they're not a part is like a member of the faithful being cut off from God. When they don't ably wield their current power, it isn't because they're banking on leveraging their failure into even more power for themselves in the future. It's out of incompetence or apathy, not cunning. |
What ends up happening (and what we can sort of see going on in Europe, with their faster-moving electoral cycles) is that people move back and forth between the two mainstream parties, creating a revolving door when it's clear that neither the Socialists nor the Conservatives are quite able to deal with things. The Tories came in after the GFC, and now there is low confidence amongst the Tories that they'll be re-elected, with no reflection on the fact that Labour wasn't able to deal with the crisis when it happened. Greece moved from New Democracy to PASOK, and now sees the two of them together running the country in a coalition.
Unless there's a revolution, no group is ever so horribly discredited as to be thrown out in a way that will stick.
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