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MC_chrome t1_j5jjwot wrote

Reply to comment by Faggaultt in India blocks BBC documentary on Modi’s role in religious riots | News by huge_throbbing_pp

Legitimate question: why are we still calling India and Turkey democracies when they are pretty transparently theocracies nowadays?

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FlyingFlyofHell t1_j5jo1rg wrote

Because Modi is still elected representative as he has won fair elections. The problem in India is that the Opposition doesn't have any proper candidate. You are stuck between Modi or Rahul Gandhi who most of the public didn't like but opposition is not moving away from him because he is Great Grand son of First Indian Prime Minister, Grand Son of First female Prime Minister and Son of a Prime Minister. The whole Opposition party is surrounding only one family and the list of the Corruption that party did is way too long to write. I can confirm they are not winning in 2024 also as they have not learned a thing after 2 losses. It is kind of similar to US thing but if Both Candidates are not good But you have to elect one which is less problematic and will actually do some development. like Yeah Modi do have that hard Conservative ideas but he is best politician regarding infrastructure development for the country as the movement he has won the Infra projects are Getting fast and new projects are getting announced and completed. He is also good regarding welfare schemes.

And even if India is Multi party parliamentary Democracy only Two Big Parties BJP and Congress actually have chances of Forming governments. There is a 3rd party emerging in India Called AAP but it will take more than decade for them to be any threat to the BJP.

Modi party BJP got 37% vote in last election Congress 20% other 42% is distributed among different parties which then chose to form coalition between one of these two parties.

So even if the majority of the country is not voted for you the country has the first past post voting system you will win.

So Yeah conclusion is until and unless Opposition don't bring any good candidate and assure public there won't be any corruptions and they will focus on Their promises , Modi and BJP will be winning elections.

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Shmodecious t1_j5jnk92 wrote

…because India has legitimate elections?

What do you think democracy is, when the government never does anything bad?

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automatesaltshaker t1_j5jqn2b wrote

We’ll the US isn’t a democracy. It’s a Democratic republic. So by that measure half of Reddit would be right.

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GourangaPlusPlus t1_j5jrjya wrote

> We’ll the US isn’t a democracy. It’s a Democratic republic

My man, that's not a mutually exclusive statement

It's both

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MC_chrome t1_j5jp5uq wrote

If every action a government takes is based off of the religious beliefs of a particular group, that isn’t really a democracy anymore. As Modi has more than shown the world, he is perfectly content with using the Hindu religion to justify committing a number of horrible atrocities.

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Cranyx t1_j5jruzx wrote

> If every action a government takes is based off of the religious beliefs of a particular group, that isn’t really a democracy anymore.

If that group is the majority, then yes it is. I'm not sure you grasp what a democracy is. What you're almost getting at is the fact that democracy is not infallible. Terrible things can be done democratically.

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Shmodecious t1_j5jtnmb wrote

So if religious people vote for religious things, that isn’t democracy?

Look, I think democracy is better than any alternatives. But you’re being naively idealistic about it.

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