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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (22767)	5/15/2004 12:47:28 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

CR, I want to address the issue of the recently concluded democratic elections in the world's largest democratic country: India. Here is a editorial snippet from a leading Indian daily: <font size=2> <font color=Blue> Hindu Editorial, May 14 "Without losing their head in any way, refusing to be fooled by grandiose slogans, keeping their eye on issues that matter - above all, livelihood and national unity - more than 350 million of [the country's 670 million voters] who turned out to vote have produced a big upset ... "No pollster or party leader of any significance allowed for a verdict in which the Congress, not the Bharatiya Janata Party, would emerge as the single largest party in the 14th Lok Sabha. "Nobody could foresee the Congress-led alliance ending up 30 seats ahead of the BJP-led combine. Nobody could predict the significant increase in the weight of the Left in national politics, with more than 60 seats in a 543-member Lok Sabha. [The Left is] well placed to influence the economic, political and foreign policies of the new government." </font> guardian.co.uk <font size=4> My comment: India is a poor country with a large segment of its population who are illiterate. They do not understand the letters of the alphabet due to their illiteracy. But one thing they surely do understand and that is the value of freedom. They fought for their freedom, shed a lot of blood to acquire it from the British rule and they cherish it. My point: democracy is a yearning. It cannot be imposed as Bush is trying to do in Iraq. YOu cannot buy democracy with money, you cannot force it down the throats with bullets. That is why I think that Bush's Iraq policy is an exercise in futility. Any more tax payers' dollars put into that would be a waste. Instead, I hope that the American voter will take their cue from the Indian voter, decide to put a halt to this Bush madness and quietly start a revolution through the ballot box by voting this Administration out of office in November. A bloodless coup similar to what those poor hungry illiterate folks did in India through the embrace of the ballot and not of the bullet. Long live democracy and let us make democracy work in November 2004 here in the US.