“The trend in membership is clear: the traditional Danish mass parties have all experienced a dramatic reduction in the number of individual members.
Starting in the 1950s, the reduction accelerated in the 1970s, slowed down in the 1980s and stabilized in the 1990s, albeit still with a minor downward trend. The decline has not been compensated for by any significant increase in the membership of the new parties which, despite having adopted an organizational structure similar to that of the traditional mass party, and despite explicitly hoping to organize as large a proportion of the electorate as possible, have not succeeded in persuading voters to join in any significant numbers. In sum, the individual membership (which is also the only kind of membership) of the Danish political parties has decreased from a total of about 515,000 in 1960 to about 180,000 in 2000 or from around 22 percent of the electorate in 1960 to less than 5 percent in 2000.
With membership declining so dramatically it could be asked whether or not the parties are still able to fulfill the functions traditionally assigned to them in representative democracies.” – Karina Pedersen et al., Sleeping or active partners: Danish party members at the turn of the Millennium, Party Politics, Vol. 10, no. 4, 2004, p. 368
«Obedecem a este esquema e são expressão destas limitações os chamados partidos políticos, mas estes, por definição e exigências da sua vida própria, não representam nem podem servir a unidade nacional senão precisa e precariamente, quando se unem, ou seja quando se negam».
Se as pessoas estão bem porque é que hão de ligar à políticas?
Se um país está bem porque é que há política?
Karina Pedersen et al. é que perderiam o emprego, assim como muitos jornalistas.
Por isso têm um discurso em que incentivam a politização.
E os possíveis para que haja política mesmo que não seja necessária.