That is deflection and disingenuity of the highest order. Cut out the morose verbiage please. In short, you dont have an answer. For 2014, you dont have an answer. Period. All these words of "let the electorate work itself out" is just to mask to that inability to spell out a solution when called.(1)
The last thing I would be doing is asking for a character certificate from anybody out here. So lets concentrate on the topic and leave out the psycho-analysis of each other out. The imposition of western definitions of fascism onto the Indian context without taking into account the different conditions is a stupidity deserving a smack in its own right. But we shall not go into that.(2)
Again, no one asked you my reasons or anybody else's affinity towards BJP or any other org. That is my personal choice and you dont get to decide for me.(3)
All I asked was a solution to the existing problem which you clearly dont have. criticism any body can make. Solutions, only a few can give. You, sir, are only good at the former. And such critics, without a solution, are dime a dozen.(4)
(1) You fail to see, not unexpectedly, that the habit and practice of handing down 'answers' is only dictatorial. Only a people can decide, from the options offered by the political organisations competing for its attention, what is right and what is wrong, not some master figure on high.
That does not mean that I do not see where the trend is going and what is happening in India. We are clearly no longer ready to accept India-wide parties with India-wide programmes, which ignore local problems and specific development. That trend is clear, and it is clear that a series of regional solutions will be evolved on every aspect, on economics, on jobs and employment creation, on education, and on civic administration and governance. They will be different because the problems of Mumbai are different from the problems of Bengaluru, and those are both different from the problems of Yamunanagar or Saharanpur or Kolkata. Issues which seem important to ideologues and to bigots are gradually losing importance, as people gradually begin to realise that their problems will not go away if a Uniform Civil Code is applied, and one community brought to heel by majoritarian pressure.
If in Nitish Kumar's administration, young girls cycle safely and happily to school, and the crime rate has gone down, his policies will prevail, and it does not matter what they looked like at the outset, especially as he has made his sharp aversion to communalism clear. If in Mamata Bannerjee's administration, nothing moves except the CM's cavalcade, and industry leaves the state at an even faster pace than under the Communists, then she will be dumped, and another party - the Congress? the Communists? - will be brought back.
It is this that I keep talking about, that we do not need headlines and little tinpot dictators - no names, so no offence - strutting about informing everybody that they have the solution, and it is the magic formula to build the nation. We need more of the same that has distinguished us from our neighbours, the democratic process.
(2) Unfortunately, you have commented without any awareness of that test and what it seeks to establish. You might have been more circumspect otherwise. That test establishes links between personality traits and political belief. It was integral to my reply that some personalities, yours for instance, are not tuned to democractic process and can never understand ambiguity or diffuseness, but must always seek a hard, final solution. Like Hitler offered, and before him, Mussolini.
And considering that we are in some discussions arguing about the Uniform Civil Code, your muscular rejection of western definitions of fascism in an Indian context without taking into account the different conditions is downright laughable. Why do you think the British judges refused to apply a uniform code to a diverse country, and why do you think that civil and criminal law other than personal law in India is uniform? If you had the background and the information, you would have figured out that a legal system from a completely uniform country with regard to its religion and its personal laws cannot fit a completely diverse country
without making exceptions.
But then, if the matter was so simple, we would not have people making political judgements based on the sound that a jack-boot makes on the pavement, rather than by application of mind.
(3) No, I don't get to choose for you. I do get to evaluate the danger that you and your battalion represent to the country.
(4) It is precisely this thinking that I deplore and oppose. Solutions are too sensitive to be left to the few. It is the obsession of the fascist mind-set to wish to solve problems out of the head of the great leader. It is precisely that mistake that lies at the bottom of every school-boyish request to me to offer 'my' solutions. What solutions? The people will decide. The people have
always decided. The people
will always decide. Unless a fascist comes to power with his solutions coming from the chosen few.
Except the American part, I believe its true to my nature. I guess you came out as a liberal airhead ?
I didn't ask you for your score, and have no intention of sharing mine, except to say that it was
eminently satisfactory.
you are more liberal than me. May be there should be a separate set of questions to Indians.
