Democracy and Its Importance in the Seventies

There's a weak liberal senturist perspective, which usually thinks that this breakdown of those democratic institutions and what i call democratic efficacy, has happened quite recently. And i think that is a completely useless historical perspective. The whole period since the seventies has really seen the implementation of political projects that never had the kind of man from the broader public that the ones that preceded them did. Hardly anybody actually wanted it. When they first voted for people like thatcher, they thought they were going to get, like a return to the fifties. Then the left obviously didn't want it. And the people who voted for blair, mostly despite what it said in the manifesto, they