Geromix
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The article is nothing but a hilarious propaganda!
Why cant democracy be the hare? Democratic Japans development was once faster than or equal to anytime of authoritarian China.
Only those inane democracy apologists who find no way to excuse their impotency would use such kind of pathetically fallacious pretext to cover-up their embarrassment.
Unfortunately, there is a vast array of people with underdeveloped capability of critical thinking whole-heartedly accepting the fallacy to bury themselves in a delightful fantasy.
I think what you said in the last line is true and is applicable to you.
You are talking of Japan where the Liberal Democratic Party has governed Japan almost always.
Japan was a case of de facto single party system which provided the stability for economic growth.
India has shown the world that democracy and economic growth can co-exist.
For a democracy to succeed with economic liberty,what is needed is stability at the top with good leadership.Nothing else.
You obviously have little knowledge of Indian democracy and how it actually is changing the lives of minorities and lower castes in India.
It is only through democracy that got a voice.I am an Indian Christian and for the first time in my life i would be able to voting this coming elections,the Chinese can hardly imagine the power of one vote for a minority or an oppressed section of the society.
A hypothetical situation-
Imagine if India was like China but instead of China's CPC we had Hindu Fundamentalist party ruling India without any democracy that would have been the death knell for minorities who are not upper caste Hindu Indians which would have been about close to half of India's population.[I wouldn't have been here writing this!](Minorities+Lower castes would have been crushed)
India took the right path after 1947,in a diverse society like ours only democracy could have allowed creation of a just India.
Yes things are slow here but they development takes place after the people are consulted and mostly decisions in a democracy are "durable" in the words of Dr.Manmohan Singh.
He said that we were slow to liberalize,having done it only more than a decade after China in 1991 but surprisingly or not surprisingly successive governments DID not reverse policies even when the Left parties came to power.
Reforms continue to take place sometimes fast or sometimes slowly.
This is one of the greatest strengths of democracy and democracy is India's greatest strength without which we would have been in pieces with many sovereign states instead of one nation.
I cannot speak for China,China is less diverse when compared to India and therefore things are different there.
Though it is my hope that things change there and people adopt democracy in China,democracy is almost inevitable.
In economic terms it will take a long time to catch up with China but yes as far as political freedom is concerned they have got to catch up with India!!
It will be interesting to see when India will be BOTH economically prosperous and also be politically free.
PS-There are many blots of Indian democracy like Emergency period but no point in bringing them up here because they are exceptions and not the norm!