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With both ruling and opposition (and every other party + independents) being in bed with corrupt/opportunistic elements, do you sincerely think the rest of your

With both ruling and opposition (and every other party + independents) being in bed with corrupt/opportunistic elements, do you sincerely think the rest of your friends' voting would have made that much difference? During the days of coalition Indian governments with more colors than a rainbow, they kept telling that all problems were due to lack of clear mandate. Fine, the current ruling party literally got the clearest mandate in decades - the people got record breaking scams/all time high prices in return. And before you chastise the voter for voting based on caste/religion and not voting on policy issues, the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world. If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference.

monsterix 13y ago
> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference. Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed: 1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options. 2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote. > ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world. Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.

monsterix 13y ago

> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference. Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed: 1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options. 2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote. > ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world. Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.