"Badri Natarajan" <[email protected]> writes: > I was once discussing this with some American friends and they said it > sounded a lot like the days "machine politics" in the US a century or so > ago - although for them the votebanks were divided along ethnic/national > origin lines. They got over it. I think we will too.
We got over it only in so far as we moved on to newer, different problems. I will also note that the political cultures of places like Illinois that were formed in the age of machine politics are still very corrupt -- two Illinois governors in a row (three in a couple of decades) have been enmeshed in corruption scandals. >> Yours truly is guilty as the rest of the "living" people. I have no time >> or inclination right now to actively involve myself in politics to be >> able to make a difference. Neither can I start a grassroots movement to >> make an iota of difference to the already corrupt politicians. Those who > > You - and the middle class in general - just need to start voting. As a > general rule in India, people who can manage to do so, just isolate > themselves from all the problems - it's people who can't do that who wind > up voting. I'm far from sure voting will actually help. Certainly democracy is superior to tyranny in most respects, but I don't think that it is actually a real answer for most problems... Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected]
