The people had forfeited the confidence of the government

How on earth have I missed this all these years? I am not a big Bertolt Brecht fan and it is years since I have read any of his work, but this is so close to the mark to some of modern history that I am surprised to have not come across it before.

The Solution
Bertolt Brecht

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

This so crisply encapsulates what has been happening with the Mandarin class of democracies in developed countries in the past couple of decades.

Mandarins everywhere are so deeply disappointed at the incapacity of existing citizens to appreciate and kowtow to the Mandarin's credentials and expertise that they have, sometimes explicitly, sometimes sotto voce, pursued policies to elect a new people. In Britain in the 1990s, the Labour Party explicitly opened the floodgates to immigration in order to dilute the natural Little Englander tendencies of the English electorate. If the existing electorate wouldn't vote for Labour, then Labour would import new Labour voters.

The Democratic Party in the US has been only slightly less explicit in pursuing open border immigration in order to displace natural born Americans who have been trending away from the Democratic party for thirty years with new immigrants who are assessed as more amenable to the policy interests of Democrats.

Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain have all had similar movements of people inbound at the behest of the Mandarin class and against the wishes of the native-born citizens. And of course, as alluded to by Brecht, this was standard operating procedure for the Soviet Union, moving compliant Russians into territories with peoples who had forfeited the confidence of the Soviet. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and others all had large or near majorities of Russian settlers in their countries at the time the wall finally came down and they became independent once again.

Mandarins are always keen on manipulating the structures of democracy in order to achieve their own ends. They are much less interested in respecting the civil rights of their own citizens.