A Hindu godman with multiple cases winning in one place. A terror accused who labeled Gandhi's assassin as a nationalist and a patriot winning in another location. Party president has openly called for removal of people who follow religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. A candidate who can't decide which degree she pursued. All have only 1 thing in common.Really?
Come off it mate. You like Modi or think he's a great leader fair enough. But the fact of the matter is all BJP had to do was put a photo of Modi bowing down in front of a cow on their manifestos and half of the country would vote for them.
You really can’t figure out how or why Gambhir is winning?
You're not alone or alienated but the fact is that the majority of the country is either politically illiterate or easily manipulated along religious lines. While in Europe, parties campaign along the lines of reducing carbon emissions, in India they campaign along the lines of building temples and spewing religious hatred. And the saddest part is a portion of the educated populace will try to argue this is not the case.
Yeah, the people who don't see what you see are naive/gullible or straight up politically illiterate. And this is the very same elitist view why most hate having any sort of reasonable discussion with the pseudo-intellects.
It's not just that, who is the face of the opposition apart from him? Mamta, Lalu, Akhilesh, Mayawati, Kejriwal? I would rather have a "cow" run our country than those power hungry corrupt arses. Their sole agenda was to ensure Modi didn't come to power. They literally used that to try and get the masses to vote for them.
Don't have a discussion then. There's no point of having one anyway. People like me have well and truly lost so there's nothing to be done for the next 5 years in any case.
That's ok. Glad that "people like you" have lost so perhaps we won't have to your elitist bs for 5 years.
Well, at least you admit that BJP has done a good job in setting up and spreading the propaganda.
I don't have much time nowadays to get into long discussions on internet forums, but there is a good amount of hyperbole in your post. Particularly people who post here, have at least decent financial background, I don't get what has gone bad for them in 5 years.
Not sure what you are arguing or defending here. If a mob decides to lynch someone, does that make it correct - just because "majority" of the people chose that direction? And "elitists, pseudo-intellects/seculars, khan market, award wapsi" gang should keep mum because "majority"...
Pretty much this.
You give up too easily, unlike your overlords.
I didn't even read this thread till much recently. Don't frequent CE forum much. There is no hindsight, I had 325-330 as the figure in mind even before exit polls. I kept doing best/worst/realistic scenarios but couldn't go below 275-280 for NDA in that case. Also nothing wrong in predictions going wrong, can happen to psephologists too, but when people pass on predictions with confidence while being unaware of ground level knowledge, it is amusing.
I don't see your predictions in this thread. Fairly easy to look like a king in hindsight whilst saying feck all before.
Good post. Also what it proves, no matter how much the opposition blinds itself to facts, that all the schemes have actually reached the beneficiaries. People have got toilets, they've got roads, they've got electricity connections. And these people aren't ingrates, they've voted Modi back in. There's this tendency of people sitting in ivory towers to convince themselves of any truth they want to believe with their views reflected around in convenient echo chambers.. Call them jumlas, deride them, but you can't wish assets created out of existence.
Logic will say Waynand as Congress as they will easily win that back.Where?
Well they had elections in Spain lately and there were many people around me who were voting for PACMA, they got over a million votes I think. Anyway, my point is at least people here are aware of these issues and political parties bring these up in their agendas, how many people in India would vote for a party which bought up such issues?
Hungary, Italy, Austria just to name a few. Brexit is also a byproduct of nationalist sentiment. It's no secret right wing politics are on the rise.
Most people don't vote because of the environment, if they did the green parties would be in power.
Also a lot more people live in poverty in India compared to Europe, the issues in the average persons life is completely different so I don't think it's fair to compare the 2 voter bases.
I agree with what you're saying regarding rise of right wing politics. But you are already seeing countries like UK declaring climate change a national emergency, awareness is rising and I firmly believe in 10 years green parties will be in power in most of western Europe.
The average person isn't aware of these issues too though. That's what I had meant in the earlier post you quoted. Whilst I agree about different priorities but things like climate change will affect everyone and there's no initiative by the country's leadership to create real awareness about it, despite India due to its population being one of the major producers of carbon emissions.
Doesn't explain/excuse voting for a terror and a rape accused though. so there's that.
