The ruling party was elected by the people twice over, so this comment to escape the fault of corruption and to put the blame entirely on a few doesn't seem to be well grounded.
For example, in my own little world of 100 odd Facebook friends roughly 18 voted for the ruling party and only 26% of my friends voted. So you can imagine, we the people brought it on ourselves. And we have been doing it for a couple of decades. Like it or not, this is exactly how karma or lack of it comes back at you.
With both ruling and opposition (and every other party + independents) being in bed with corrupt/opportunistic elements, do you sincerely think the rest of your friends' voting would have made that much difference?
During the days of coalition Indian governments with more colors than a rainbow, they kept telling that all problems were due to lack of clear mandate. Fine, the current ruling party literally got the clearest mandate in decades - the people got record breaking scams/all time high prices in return.
And before you chastise the voter for voting based on caste/religion and not voting on policy issues, the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world.
If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference.
> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference.
Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed:
1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options.
2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote.
> ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world.
Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.
This is not about karma.
States in India which have had stable majorities, through their full term in power, have seen progress. This progress has come despite the corruption, personalities, parties, freebies, policies etc because the India growth story is still in its infancy. It doesn't really matter what the talking heads and editorials think is important.
Stable majority = more decisions|work.
Unstable majority = no decisions|work.
For example, in my own little world of 100 odd Facebook friends roughly 18 voted for the ruling party and only 26% of my friends voted. So you can imagine, we the people brought it on ourselves. And we have been doing it for a couple of decades. Like it or not, this is exactly how karma or lack of it comes back at you.