Why people idolise and romance heroes, leaders, ideologies despite repeated failures ??
Bakths, please take this in the right spirit, this is not meant to provoke you all into a massive personal fight. Yes, this subject is a hot button issue, and everyone is debating this across the country and incidentally across the world due to trump. LOL. Pl by all means counter this without name calling etc..
Clearly this govt has been a big failure...in the last 4.5 yrs, has repeatedly made numerous self made mistakes and messed up the economy, foreign policy, communal harmony, etc..
Same thing with communism, despite the failure of communist Russia, Cuba and Eastern Europe, we have a lot of people who still swear by this,
Let's take this govt,..it came on development platform...GDP went down after demo and gst as per the govt own numbers, despite that the bakths swear by this govt.
By their own numbers, the banks are in mega debt, ILFS collapsed, IDBI collapsed, and most of the NBFCs are in deep trouble...so clearly it is a contagion as many of us who know economics had predicted. But bakths swear by this govt and blame congress.. Hello,..dudes what about the disastrous demo and gst...but for our bakths, no way did demo and gst cause all this,....despite the fact that these guys have no clue on economy....similar situation on rupee collapse, fuel prices, current account deficit, falling exports, etc.. It is impossible to accept that their great leaders made a mistake with demo and gst that everyone cautioned them about....I mean how can their leaders fail ?, they know what is good for the country and in the long run...say few generations it will all work out... LOL
And even when the deputy rbi governor says, we will head towards Venezuela situation if govt interferes and takes the rbi reserves, our bakths refuse to believe and swear by this govt. remember my post 2 yrs back that people will be rioting in streets as we will run out of money and food. Anyone...??
not to forget, the many other ill advised policies - RERA, bankruptcy law, food pricing policy, etc. And the issues related to governance, cbi infighting and rebellion, enmasse rebellion by rbi governor and employees union...etc...
Now with the development agenda in a mess, the ram mandir issue has started just before elections. For god sake, how can anyone believe that it is correct to demolish a mosque and build a temple on top of it ??? But our bakths believe that this is not only okay but their birth right..
So why are bakths unable to accept that this govt has failed, and also believe that King Babur was at fault 500 yrs back in building the mosque by demolishing the temple ??? LOL
Let's analyse this terrible situation in detail..
1. Hate wrap - hatred is the #1 reason for people uniting together behind an ideology. For eg, communism started with unrelenting hatred against royals, imperialists, and rich aristocrats. Same with the trump group, they are united in their hatred against blacks, immigrants, Jews, etc.. Similarly the right wing group in india is united in their hatred towards Muslims. Bakths uniformly hate Muslims in india in some form or the other, and that congress and regional parties betrayed the majority cause.
2. Bubble wrap - all of us live in a bubble wrap of our own. That is each of us have our own world view built due to personal experiences and influences from our parents, friends, colleagues, etc..For eg, people from keralam will generally be disposed to either communism or congress world view due to predominant view in the ground. They will believe only the views confirmed by people who live in the same bubble wrap world. Trump supporters don't believe anything from the so called liberal media, they will only believe fox news which confirm their world view. Similarly the bakths will only believe their own right wing sources about any of the govt actions, not even the Harvard economists or a highly qualified professional like the deputy rbi governor... LOL.
3. Time wrap - people who have lived with these views and influences and hatred for a long time - will never be open to change. So communists in keralam will never agree that communism has failed despite all keralites working in gulf or other states, and will blame the Russians and Cubans for not knowing how to implement the true principles of communism, LOL. Similarly, the bakths will never believe that this govt has failed. Hey common guys, Give them another term, they can further mess up....oops, they will fix this mess... I mean who is the alternative...
4. History wrap - people love the idea of strong leaders, strong father figures, the mythical heroes who can defeat great enemies and liberate their people. And this is ingrained in our DNA. So they see strong leadership on bjp side and a weak leadership on congress / coalition, and they are drawn to strength despite going backwards in terms of development.
There you go guys...some of the key reasons why people love to idolise leaders !!!
Bakths, please take this in the right spirit, this is not meant to provoke you all into a massive personal fight. Yes, this subject is a hot button issue, and everyone is debating this across the country and incidentally across the world due to trump. LOL. Pl by all means counter this without name calling etc..
Clearly this govt has been a big failure...in the last 4.5 yrs, has repeatedly made numerous self made mistakes and messed up the economy, foreign policy, communal harmony, etc..
Same thing with communism, despite the failure of communist Russia, Cuba and Eastern Europe, we have a lot of people who still swear by this,
Let's take this govt,..it came on development platform...GDP went down after demo and gst as per the govt own numbers, despite that the bakths swear by this govt.
By their own numbers, the banks are in mega debt, ILFS collapsed, IDBI collapsed, and most of the NBFCs are in deep trouble...so clearly it is a contagion as many of us who know economics had predicted. But bakths swear by this govt and blame congress.. Hello,..dudes what about the disastrous demo and gst...but for our bakths, no way did demo and gst cause all this,....despite the fact that these guys have no clue on economy....similar situation on rupee collapse, fuel prices, current account deficit, falling exports, etc.. It is impossible to accept that their great leaders made a mistake with demo and gst that everyone cautioned them about....I mean how can their leaders fail ?, they know what is good for the country and in the long run...say few generations it will all work out... LOL
And even when the deputy rbi governor says, we will head towards Venezuela situation if govt interferes and takes the rbi reserves, our bakths refuse to believe and swear by this govt. remember my post 2 yrs back that people will be rioting in streets as we will run out of money and food. Anyone...??
not to forget, the many other ill advised policies - RERA, bankruptcy law, food pricing policy, etc. And the issues related to governance, cbi infighting and rebellion, enmasse rebellion by rbi governor and employees union...etc...
Now with the development agenda in a mess, the ram mandir issue has started just before elections. For god sake, how can anyone believe that it is correct to demolish a mosque and build a temple on top of it ??? But our bakths believe that this is not only okay but their birth right..
So why are bakths unable to accept that this govt has failed, and also believe that King Babur was at fault 500 yrs back in building the mosque by demolishing the temple ??? LOL
Let's analyse this terrible situation in detail..
1. Hate wrap - hatred is the #1 reason for people uniting together behind an ideology. For eg, communism started with unrelenting hatred against royals, imperialists, and rich aristocrats. Same with the trump group, they are united in their hatred against blacks, immigrants, Jews, etc.. Similarly the right wing group in india is united in their hatred towards Muslims. Bakths uniformly hate Muslims in india in some form or the other, and that congress and regional parties betrayed the majority cause.
2. Bubble wrap - all of us live in a bubble wrap of our own. That is each of us have our own world view built due to personal experiences and influences from our parents, friends, colleagues, etc..For eg, people from keralam will generally be disposed to either communism or congress world view due to predominant view in the ground. They will believe only the views confirmed by people who live in the same bubble wrap world. Trump supporters don't believe anything from the so called liberal media, they will only believe fox news which confirm their world view. Similarly the bakths will only believe their own right wing sources about any of the govt actions, not even the Harvard economists or a highly qualified professional like the deputy rbi governor... LOL.
3. Time wrap - people who have lived with these views and influences and hatred for a long time - will never be open to change. So communists in keralam will never agree that communism has failed despite all keralites working in gulf or other states, and will blame the Russians and Cubans for not knowing how to implement the true principles of communism, LOL. Similarly, the bakths will never believe that this govt has failed. Hey common guys, Give them another term, they can further mess up....oops, they will fix this mess... I mean who is the alternative...
4. History wrap - people love the idea of strong leaders, strong father figures, the mythical heroes who can defeat great enemies and liberate their people. And this is ingrained in our DNA. So they see strong leadership on bjp side and a weak leadership on congress / coalition, and they are drawn to strength despite going backwards in terms of development.
There you go guys...some of the key reasons why people love to idolise leaders !!!
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