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Its only going to get worse imo. India is an economic hole - much of it of our own doing - that is going to be very hard to get out of. Poorer governments tend
by puranjay 5y ago
Its only going to get worse imo. India is an economic hole - much of it of our own doing - that is going to be very hard to get out of. Poorer governments tend to be desperate and authoritarian.
- srean 5y agoIt is not surprising that barring one appointment, the ministry of finance was/is held by people who had no background in workings of an economy. The one appointment that did come from a background in economics kept covering her failings by blaming behavior of millennials, international economic scenario and Covid, as if the las two affected India only.
- portpecos 5y agoRahul Gandhi's grandmother also went on a banning spree of political opposition parties, after she declared emergency powers and went authoritarian. Given the legacy of similar behavior from Congress since the birth of the nation, I have little confidence that Congress and Rahul Gandhi will behave any different.
- puranjay 5y agoI fail to see how Congress is relevant to this argument at all. I expected HN to not fall victim to whataboutism so quickly
- portpecos 5y agoI don't consider what-about-ism a fallacy. In fact, it's an important way to identify hypocrisies and double standards.
- srean 5y agoIndira Gandhi was 3 to 4 generations ago. All those who are critical of Modi's method now are just as critical of Indira Gandhi's methods, they are the same barring the difference that IG had made it official. The point remains that IG is now an object of history, the people from her congress are mostly dead, if not all dead. On the other hand Modi and his methods are an objective reality now. I don't see how it follows that IG's grandson would adopt the methods adopted by her. In fact it is offensive to suggest that.
- puranjay 5y agoAgain, how does what a woman who died before I or the majority of India was even born relevant to what BJP is doing NOW? The BJP has now been in power at the center for the majority of this century. Blaming everyone else is just evading responsibility
- rishav_sharan 5y agoWhy is Indira Gandhi relevant here? You ight as well go all the way and blame everything on Nehru which seems to be the ongoing Sanghi narrative. What Modi is doing is the problem here. It doesn't matter if other would-be-tyrants also did it. That doesn't makes it acceptable.
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- piyushpr134 5y agoBecause diversion!