The trouble with the fascist mind-set is that it is temperamentally unable to think in terms of the rule of law. Absent that, it searches for other explanations and alternatives, and comes out with these weird concoctions.
Unfortunately for these ivory tower pundits, as Khaled Anis Ansari and Afroze Alam have already shown, the Muslim vote is a myth. Each individual Muslim voter votes as she or he does for a variety of reasons. There are economic reasons, good governance reasons, yes, political reasons, local issues, ecological issues, the whole nine yards. It is difficult for muscle-headed Hindu bigots to think of Muslim women and men actually behaving like individual, idiosyncratic human beings. To these thugs, Muslims are a commodity, a class of object not quite human, therefore not capable of human reactions. The same applies to Muslim bigots who find no reason to think of the kaffir in terms other than a sweeping common category doomed to hellfire and fit only to serve the Ummah.
It is fortunate for the vast mass of us that this kind of calculation is increasingly proving itself hollow, save in times of extreme stress, when there is a lumping together of the voting of frightened, insecure people under constant threat of punishment.
And that is what the constitution, and the rule of law is designed to prevent. Which again is precisely why the communal rabble rouser hates both of these.
And welcome to vote bank politics.
This is where it is, not just within the corrupt kleptocracy of the Congress, but also within the corrupt lumpenproletariat of the BJP.
The trouble is not with the "Fascist" mindset but with pitiable ivory tower dwellers such as yourself whose faculties have been completely destroyed by the toxic mix of Marxist theories and western materialistic liberal thought. You have been so mindfu**ed that you are unable to see the world as it really is... but only as an illusion of a set of hyperindividualistic persons coming together, if at all, solely for the protection of their economic class interests.
I m amazed that a man of such advanced years is so uncognizant of the realities of the Indian society and Indian Politics. Macaulay has succeeded far beyond his wildest dreams....Identity and social bonds are a reality of Indian life and major determinants of power equations. Even a child knows that Muslims indulge in tactical voting...and I respect them for it.... I is only that Hindus should also do so... It is wishful dreamers such as you who have allowed the penetration of our society by hostile forces by hijacking all intellectual discourse.
I respect our enemies...the terrorists...far more than you whom I hold in the deepest contempt. At least they are upfront and brave...like a sword wound which can be seen coming and defended against. You...and the likes of you...are like the insidious cancer which weakens silently till the body finally falls.