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| Apathy Wins by a Landslide |
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However, the electorate has in recent times stayed away and voted with their feet. Western states, even in their current weakened position, cannot be equated to dictatorships, since within the latter consent is not even sought and popular will is crushed. The substantive point remains that the democratic form of government lacks popular enthusiasm and consent. Debates about nationality and identity are growing at a local and global level along with the sense of alienation and disenfranchisement in some quarters. The rise of Islamic political thought and the return of ultra nationalism to the agenda of the major political parties in Britain all set the stage for a powerful conflict of ideas. This is set to challenge the tired status quo of the entrenched politics of the British centre parties and requires a high level of political maturity. In that sense, people of all ideological persuasions have an obligation to resolve urgently the current unsatisfactory political formulation that strangles current debate and leads to a dangerously perverse apathy.
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