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What Modi is up to us basic electoral arithmetic - what admixture of Hindu grievance, painting of a rosy future, and sound bites/empty gestures can he use to w
by saimiam 4y ago
What Modi is up to us basic electoral arithmetic - what admixture of Hindu grievance, painting of a rosy future, and sound bites/empty gestures can he use to win the next election?
I don’t think india is descending into Fascism though I would agree that it is no longer behaving like a Republic and more like a majoritarian democracy.
For one, the BJP isn’t (yet) saying there’s a “prototypical” Indian and that some Indian citizens are not prototypical. From what little I know of fascism, this is important.
Second, don’t be taken in by the headlines. People do speak up against majoritarianism. BJP/NDA does not have universal support.
Third, give electoral politics a chance to formulate a response to the BJP/NDA. Democracy is and will hold in india. E.g., the recently ousted chief minister of Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) spoke up against the tricolor campaign.
Painting the current state of affairs as fascism is foolish.