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60% politicians hold criminal records. Most are illiterate. Almost all are super corrupt.
by ftyhbhyjnjk 3y ago
60% politicians hold criminal records. Most are illiterate. Almost all are super corrupt.
- aww_dang 3y agoPolitics rewards dishonesty. All of the incentives are there. What else can be expected? Of course, true believers in Democracy will say, "We'll just vote out the bad ones". How is that working out?
- fafzv 3y agoI'll never get tired of saying it: politicians are the same as the citizens that vote them in. In India they won't vote out corrupt politicians because the citizenry is corrupt itself.
- SanderNL 3y agoLet’s just say education might be an issue.
- fafzv 3y agoIt's cultural, and I'm not sure I agree that it's an issue. Different cultures behave in different ways.
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- Etrnl_President 3y agoSure, blame the corruption on the people; It certainly has nothing to do with a system based on extortion, with no incentives to perform the functions it was allegedly established for, and every incentive to extract as much revenue from the citizenry as possible without a rebellion.
- isanjay 3y agoI think there is some truth in this. Politicians distribute huge sums of corrupt money to poor and lower middle class population just before elections. And your average Indian would love to get a government job that has scope of corruption. All in all you have culture where corruption in normalized.
- Sai_ 3y agoGive the country and its democracy some credit (Indian here). We’ve voted out charismatic leaders, we’ve voted in huge coalitions, we’ve ignored sympathy waves after political assassinations, power transfers have been uniformly peaceful since we gained independence. If this cultural/endemic corruption at work, I think most people in most countries would prefer this to whatever oligarchy, junta, theocracy, ruler-for-life-god-on-earth-ocrasy they suffer under.
- skinnymuch 3y agoIndia should be copying China from the foundation -- since Deng.
- ir123 3y agoEuropean citizens voted in genociders. According to this logic, europeans were also genociders
- alpaca128 3y ago> true believers in Democracy will say, "We'll just vote out the bad ones". How is that working out? Better than no democracy at all. I think anyone can see the problems with it.
- pedrogpimenta 3y agoAs someone said, Democracy is bad but not as bad as the other options.
- copper-float 3y agoWow, that is shocking.
- humanlion87 3y ago> Almost all are super corrupt. And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries?
- isanjay 3y agoYes. because on top of corrupt they are criminals most of them
- InCityDreams 3y ago>And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries? You are not alone - it is kinda similar in other countries. The only thing worse than a politician is someone that voted for them.