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The advance of socialism in democratic nations is brought about by left of centre governments establishing a ‘client base’, and this is achieved through the welfare system. When a substantial proportion of the electorate are clients of the state, then the party which offers the most benefits (to be paid for by ‘the rich’) is on to a winner: it could be described as bribery. When socialists talk of the ‘rich’ it conjures up a vision of the super-rich, whereas they really mean the middle classes, upper and lower and the higher and middle end of the working classes. Paying for their manifesto policies is played down. Conservatives tend to be more realistic in what they can offer so their honesty often works against them.
As long as democracy demands that ‘clients of the state’ have a vote, then all ‘democratic’ nations will never be truly democratic.