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#ACFM Trip 22: Democracy

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I Think the Old Right Is the Reason for the End of Democracy

The Blairites have a very worked out justification, which is that people who join parties are more committed and are further along the political spectrum than ordinary voters. So by being against their own members, they are, in fact, more representative of the wider public,. That's like the perspective of e what we call the traditional light, the old right. And for these people, like philip gald inthsort of one of the architects of new labour, it was they saw it as a form of democracy that wask more responsive to the complexity of things. They became convinced that market mechanisms were would ultimately be a more responsive way of giving people what they wanted rather than trying to do it

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