faithfulguy
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Indians wants to make 'India' of our dreams not China not even US
If you want to make India your dream, than first lift the nightmare out of the majority of Indians that are very poor and in destitute. None of them would be PDF as they have no internet access. They probably can't even read and their kids are not in school. They don't even know that they need education for their kids.
To me, the term democracy is just to keep the status quo. India needs drastic change, even a revolution, to improve the life of its people. Unless some of the posters are correct that the IQ of Indian poor is not up to human average and they will remain perpetually poor, which I don't believe. India need dramatic changes in its culture, government and mind set in order to improve.
Just so that you can understand it, I'll type reeeeaal slow this time.
More political freedom = checks and balances = slower decision making
Upside: No great leap forward, no cultural revolution, no chance of turning up like North Korea
Downside: Projects take place slowly
Not every authoritarian experiment will end up like China - I never said that. China happens to be just one authoritarian experiment that has been successful - there are dozens of other authoritarian countries that are failed/quasi-failed states - North Korea is just one example.
Knowing how spectacularly things can go wrong in an authoritarian regime, I'll prefer a slow, lumbering democracy which moves slowly but moves in the right direction - without any disasters such as the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution.
The famine that China faced in Mao's time was largely man-made. Read up on it.
The starvation suffered by China back in the time of Mao is just another day in India. That is the Indian dilemma. There are constant starvation caused deaths in India but as Indians are used to it, it become routine.
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