This is what political scientists call the protest vote cycle: corruption breeds disgust, disgust breeds extremism, and extremism, unchecked, breeds tyranny.
When people are disgusted by corruption, they can slip into supporting an extremist party that they do not initially believe will lead to totalitarianism — but it will. Decade after decade, people see that every party, both right and left, simply takes turns in power whilst the corruption continues. If a conservative party is in charge and a corruption scandal erupts, people vote for the progressive party. And when the progressive party is in charge and a scandal erupts, people vote for the conservatives. After enough of these cycles, extremists on both the left and the right begin to rise. They bring hope, but when they reach power they are no different — they slip into corruption just as the others did. And in the worst cases, they accumulate more and more power until they become totalitarian, and people do not see it coming. People want change, and so they slip into the arms of new political parties that tell them exactly what they want to hear.






