如果无法兑现承诺给支持者的好处，就有可能导致分崩离析的结果，因为自民党从来就匮乏根深蒂固的基层民众支持，而是通过与遍布全国的行业部门、职业协会和当地社区的内部人士联网实现对权力和再分配机器的操纵。
Unable to pay off its constituencies, disintegration looms, for the LDP has never been a party with entrenched grass-roots support, but instead operates as a machine of power and redistribution through a web of insiders across the country’s industrial sectors, occupational associations, and local communities.