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GREAT post! 100% agreed- there is a level of ignorance when it comes to understanding framing of policies and how to play politics. All to often politcians are painted with the same brush with sweeping generalistions which means that the comman man has very low opnions of them and even less understanding of what they do. This is dangerous as it means that groups of ignorant masses can collect together and call for stupid policies (capital punishment for rape) or object to sensible and needed devlopments (nuke power plants) with little understanding as to the ramifications of their own actions.
I am all for democracy but as Winston Churchill remarked:
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter"
The problem is that common people don't understand how the laws in India are made, they think all the laws are solely made by the ruling party, which is not at all the case, for framing important laws which will have great effects across India, there are Parliamentary committees (standing committee) - on finance, on defence etc. who discuss the pros & cons of the law & comes to a conclusion only when majority of members are saying yes to it, now these committees consists of representatives from every party of the Parliament irrespective of if they form the ruling coalition or not, like standing committee of finance consists of former FM Mr. yashwant sinha who is the leader of BJP & many a times he has proposed amendments to a bill & if govt. finds it do need an amendment they agree to it, now this a tricky affair since opposition nearly oppose everything, so what final law we get is the best possible since opposition often thinks about common man.