If politicians favour the views of (actual) voters when making policy, while minorities who're ignored feel so disenfranchised they won't bother voting, reinforcing a focus on those who do, can democracy survive, even in the compromised form we currently having in the UK?
The IPPR think that we may be reaching the point where the legitimacy of the political system is bought (perhaps violently?) into question.
Not impossible to fix, but not easy either.
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h4890
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 This is one of the problems of modern democracy. Its legitimacy decreases year after year, and ultimately, it will become a show for public servants, for the benefit of public servants. Since their incomes are directly dependent upon taxing the productive classes, ultimately they are the only ones who will care.
The productive classes will either become unproductive, or they will evade taxes.
My hope is that ultimately, people will jist lose interest in the government
@ChrisMayLA6 and at that point, distributed and decentralized private services will completely replace it.
At that point in time, the public servants and the political nobility will have to live on less, or become more draconian in order to secure the continued revenue from the tax milk cows.
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