the proper method in a democracy is to work within Parliament to break up the ruling coalition - and if that fails, to vote the bums out at the first opportunity.
proper = Anglo-Saxon. We French would probably disagree... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Pretty much. We really don't do revolution or street protestsdown here in New Zealand. In the 80's, when our government betrayed us by campaigning on one platform then pursuing completely different policies once elected, we screamed and pouted, and then voted to replace them. The replacements naturally did exactly the same thing. So we changed the electoral system to ensure a state of permanent minority government, in the hope that minor coalition parties would act as a check on that sort of behaviour. So far, it seems to have worked quite handily. Unfortunately, we had to live through 12 years of betrayal to get there...
Cross your fingers and give it time? That seems to be what democracy really needs in order to stick - time for Hobbesean tactics to become unthinkable...
