民主党的基层支持更为薄弱，因此官僚家族极有可能利用其分而治之的标准策略，诱骗民主党像自民党一样利用国家资金和政府合同来回馈工会和其他利益组织等主要的支持者。
The DPJ has even weaker grass-roots support, so the mandarins will most likely use their standard techniques of divide and rule to cajole the party by teaching it to mimic the LDP in using state money and contracts to underwrite its major constituencies, such as labor unions and other interest groups.