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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion Sasanka_of_Gauda 2mo ago #7584019

how'd you guys end up with socialism and the reservation system? that seems like the real problem.

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Sasanka_of_Gauda maha/raja :marseybengal2:

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eager_toilet 2mo ago #7584698

All poor democratic countries are socialist because the poor are only real electorate.

Reservation similarly was ultimately bowing to demographics. To carry an election you need 40-45% vote share in a multi party system. forward castes were 15%, Muslims 10% and scheduled castes and scheduled tribes made up another 25%. These were demographics INC primarily pandered to, FCs huffing nationalism cope while others were bought(in case of Muslims by sops and acceptance of Muslim personal law, for the other two by sops and reservation). The middle were largely excluded from this alliance. They eventually mobilized and forced through another set of reservations and so now 75% of the country enjoys it.

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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion Sasanka_of_Gauda 2mo ago #7584728

hmm, so basically you guys needed a mao followed by a deng and you'd be on a better path today. taiwan and south korea also didn't become democratic until the late 90s, makes you think.

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Sasanka_of_Gauda maha/raja :marseybengal2:

Hypermuscular Hindu Hridaysamrat :!marseybengal2:

eager_toilet 2mo ago #7584784

Yeah, even western countries didn't have universal adult franchise till 1900s. It was absurd to introduce democracy in a country in India's state. Its what you get when elites were raised in a bubble then shipped off to english universities. The funny thing is it effectively wasn't a democracy for a long 20-30 years. INC dominated every national and state election till 60s, first non INC national govt was a brief coalition in 70s and then finally 80s when the party collapsed with all the adult dynasts dead. If they had wished to, there'd barely have been any opposition to dictatorial rule, there wasn't when they imposed Emergency for the most part. But they had some deep fetish for democrazy.