When there is an important new policy change needed (think environment conservation) - then in beige politics it gets coopted by all or most of the parties. In

When there is an important new policy change needed (think environment conservation) - then in beige politics it gets coopted by all or most of the parties. In this way they stay beige (and the green party never becomes important) - that looks boring and is intellectually frustrating - but it is so much better what happens in dictatorships (even when they are overthrown by revolutions and the politics become so interesting and exciting).