Professor David Betts
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So these fissures that I talk about, they're
Academics can argue about all kinds of things and will debate the nuances of things, but to suggest that this is a highly fractured society and that there are signs of it quite literally visible to any person with disabilities,
eyesight as you move across the urban landscape of the country is really not controversial.
Of course, what has brought much of this into
into prominence and just very much excited people and is the continuing revelations around the industrial scale raping of primarily white working class girls by Pakistani community-based multi-generational groups
national sexual torture networks that are moving girls around.
And if you need some kind of illustration of a fractionated society, one in which you can't trust that your neighbor is not going to prey on your children, is a pretty strong one.
Yeah, I do want to stress that I'm really not making a party political point here, or I'm not trying to.
That's not most of what I'm talking about.
In fact, all I'm talking about are structural issues.
This is not political point scoring.
I'm not trying to be that sort of pundit.
And your earlier remarks about the uniparty are entirely accurate.
And people understand that to be the case, which is what is fueling this.
I think that's the fundamental thing that is fueling this pressure cooker you talk about, because
Once people have fully internalized that voting doesn't matter, then that is an expression of basically a complete lack of confidence in the legitimacy of the existing system.
It is a complete lack of confidence in the ability to
of politics to solve collective action problems in that society.
And it's really hard to roll back from that.
And to the point of your specific question now about reform, I have to say I'm not terribly optimistic on this front.
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