In this view, then, “liberal democracy” with its parliamentary party politics is only a train station on a longer developmental railroad that has stopped at several earlier forms of governance. True, we have stayed here for a hundred years or so, which is a long time. But we stayed at monarchic and varieties of feudal rule for much longer. And then we moved on. It’s normal for the train to stop for a while. The system needs to stabilize and the costs of getting to the next station are high.
