Modi certainly seems to be this trump like figure, gets a lot of his power from playing up ethnic and religious divisions, and I’ve also found it interesting nobody seems to criticize him very much.
Post Iraq war republicans never criticize such things, and I think the left has a real blind spot for none white ethno/religious Supremacism.
This is a very biased and unbalanced view. India is a country with 1.4 billion people and not an easy task to manage. And it is a vibrant democracy. Look at last weeks elections in the southern state of Karnataka. While Modi has faults (we all do including you and I)….he is doing his best. Politicians main job is to get elected so he/she can govern by implementing the policies they campaigned on. And he is just doing that and if people elect him, then that is what they want and get.
Indeed. I find it remarkable that commentators and leaders in North America, South America and Europe have missed, ignored, misunderstood or embraced the parallels between the rise of violent, reactionary, authoritarian Hindu nationalism in India and violent, reactionary, authoritarian Christian-Catholic nationalism in the U. S., Brazil, and Argentina in the Americas and France, Germany and Italy in Europe.
These movements are dangerous and represent a shift away from the rule of law and government by the governed characterized by fairness and equity toward rule by a religious cabal characterized by arbitrariness corruption.
Cheers to the Australian parliament!
Modi certainly seems to be this trump like figure, gets a lot of his power from playing up ethnic and religious divisions, and I’ve also found it interesting nobody seems to criticize him very much.
Post Iraq war republicans never criticize such things, and I think the left has a real blind spot for none white ethno/religious Supremacism.
This is a very biased and unbalanced view. India is a country with 1.4 billion people and not an easy task to manage. And it is a vibrant democracy. Look at last weeks elections in the southern state of Karnataka. While Modi has faults (we all do including you and I)….he is doing his best. Politicians main job is to get elected so he/she can govern by implementing the policies they campaigned on. And he is just doing that and if people elect him, then that is what they want and get.
The USA wants to replace China with India, as a source of cheap labor.
Simple as that.
Indeed. I find it remarkable that commentators and leaders in North America, South America and Europe have missed, ignored, misunderstood or embraced the parallels between the rise of violent, reactionary, authoritarian Hindu nationalism in India and violent, reactionary, authoritarian Christian-Catholic nationalism in the U. S., Brazil, and Argentina in the Americas and France, Germany and Italy in Europe.
These movements are dangerous and represent a shift away from the rule of law and government by the governed characterized by fairness and equity toward rule by a religious cabal characterized by arbitrariness corruption.