What the political establishment overlooks is the broader damage that such behavior does to Parliament’s public standing, and therefore to democracy itself. The shambolic performance of elected parliaments in Europe, especially in interwar Germany and Italy, had a great deal to do with the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the first half of the twentieth century.
政治当局忽略了这样的行为给议会的公共形象造成的更广泛的伤害，并且威胁到民主本身。在欧洲，特别是两次世界大战之间的德国和意大利，民选议会的混乱是集权主义和法西斯主义在20世纪上半叶崛起的重要原因。当民主因为其自身的实践者信誉尽失时，公众就会强烈希望采取看似有效的替代方案。