Democracy threatened by democratically elected leaders
Democracy threatened by democratically elected leaders
Narendra Modi is a democratically elected leader, but his image is that of a leader who decimated opposition and dissent — in Parliament or on university campuses.
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Government forms aren't carved in marble and completely immutable, constitutions allow for modifications to adapt to changing times, without overturning any institution.
Only if done in good faith.
What faith do you in a power-hungry megalomaniac dictator and his power structures, who uses cyberweapons against its citizens, who views opposition and activists and the common man who doesn't kowtow as the enemy, who spies on all its citizens, who uses UAPA not against terrorists but against Dalit & Adivasi rights activists, who has created a violent ethnic & communal civil war in Manipur, who openly persecutes its religious minorities and the oppressed castes, who destablised our economy to convert black money to white, who enables corporate monopolies and kills MSMEs, who refuses to be responsible or accountable for any of their policy failings, who has deliberately weakened states rights, who sends IB after professors, who uses the law to crush democracy, who sends IB after minority religions, who allows and participates in hatespeech, who destroys homes & livelihoods of the poor on a whim, who fails India's territorial integrity, who lies publicly to the people he should be leading, who denigrates & catcalls women politicians, who benefits from creating conflict, who behaves like a king and not an elected people's representative?
Only if done in good faith.
Nah, that's the problem. It happens whether it's done in good faith or not, and bad faith actors have proven themselves quite adept at manipulating democratic institutions to their own advantage. I'm American so I'm mainly aware of how it's going down in the US, but from my limited perspective it seems like a lot of other countries are going down the same path: India, Turkey, Hungary, Brazil, etc. It might even be happening in China—not within the country as a whole since it obviously isn't a democracy, but maybe within the Communist party, considering Xi declared himself leader for life and everyone seemingly just went along with it.
I disagree. Democracies and their foundations are living structures. They shouldn't atrophy and become fossils. When needed, they should be updated but if the political party in power is fascist then they'll wreck the very basis of democracy (this is the danger staring India in the face). Which is why we should never ever vote any kind of fascist or extremist to power. When we take democracy for granted, we allow fascism to creep in.
What I've been observing in the US is that about 1/4 of the population is appropriately aware of fascism and freaked out about it, 1/4 absolutely loves fascism, and 1/2 the population thinks it's all "just politics" that can safely be ignored no matter how much anyone tries to explain the importance of it. It's infuriating.
Wow, can you share credible evidences to back up all this?
You can find them all on all credible news on India since 2014.
Ah ok, very convincing, can't debate that.
Sounds a lot like qanon folks, I can't give you sources, you have to do your own research!
Your ignorance is your own responsibility, not anyone else’s. This isn’t some far fetched conspiracy, there is ample mainstream news discussing the current Modi government. Any media organisation will have covered the events in Kashmir when it happened years ago; as well as Modi continually stoking Hindu violence on other religious groups.
It's ok, bro. Maybe they're new to Indian politics and just want to know.
Let's give'em the benefit of the doubt, yeah? plus I got to list out all the English-language resources that everyone can access to gain knowledge on how crony capitalism & Hindu supremacy has fucked India up.
I'd have to list every news report on India & Modi govt from these news sources since 2014:
In English- theguardian.com
- caravanmagazine.com
- thewire.in
- ndtv (before august 2022, it was captured by Adani, Modis favoured capitalist)
- quint ( before march 2023, it too was bought by Adani, Modi's favoured capitalist)
- scroll.in
- newsclick.in
- newslaundry.com
- indianexpress.com
- the hindu (before 2020 and after feb 2023. During the gap years, it was headed by a Hindu supremacist & modi loyalist)
- washingtonpost
- morningcontext
- indiacable
- Hindutvawatch
- Adaniwatch
- thenewsminute.com
- SouthFirst.com
- Bloomberg.com
- Ft.com
- article-14.com
- BBC.com
- internetfreedom.in
- https://www.ohchr.org/
- Amnesty international
- https://www.uscirf.gov
- https://www.telegraphindia.com/
All mainstream media has been captured by Modi, so the one's listed are all online. Indian express too is captured, but the editorial board fights back in its editorials. if you want the Indian version of Qanon, just check out India's mainstream media (in print and on tv), they'll put Fox & friends to shame.
Do you want the ones in regional languages?
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Hey, it's ok. Maybe they're new to Indian politics and just want to know.
Let's give'em the benefit of the doubt, yeah? plus I got to list out all the English-language resources that everyone can access to gain knowledge on how crony capitalism & Hindu supremacy has fucked India up.