WHY?...Why aren't there many threads in Politics forum?

That is how one gets involved, get informed and will make it possible to elect better people.

How many people even know what is happening with the working of the government other than the sensationalized news headlines?

When we dont know what the Government is doing, we will never know what they are doing right and wrong and will be making the mistake of re electing them again and again.

This is the age of information, age of Internet...even the politicians are online listening, talking....people are directly writing to them on FB and Twitter...no longer can we think talking is not enough.

 

@grihani
first of all you should educate everyone in India then they know what is happening in politics, who is good politicians everything.
only some educate and intelligent people doing analyze,discussing on politics nothing will change.
anyways continue

 

2014 elections were fought hard on these forums, on FB, Twitter and other social media platforms. :2thumbsup: It turned the tides. Congress crimes came out only now, they did not even understand what went wrong, how suddenly people found out so much about them and their crimes in the past 60yrs.

 

Maybe it's because you are the first to think of this topic. So, OP, why dont you start the thread? I am sure ppl will reply. I dont know much about the JL case except the news that she was released recently.

 

Politics is a passion for me. I follow it like some others follow sports. But having been out of India for over a decade, I am not much familiar with Indian politics as well as US politics.

The past two US Presidential elections, I followed every debate, every poll, ever scandal, every faux pas and even had some heart breaking moments. I made countess phone calls, attended get together on election nights, made political contributions, met the mayor of our city in one of those election night ( who was supporting my candidate), argued/ debated with friends, husband, dad- there is not much crazy stuff that I have not done. My best friend supported the opponent (in 2008) and her husband and I were on same team. We spent hours bitching about the opposing candidate and arguing with my friend. I still have not forgiven her for her betrayal

I will be happy to discuss the 2016 US presidential politics. My only hesitance is I may very well differ from many others here with my views. Politics is a dangerous topic to discuss among friends (unless they are very close and you are confident your friendship is "politics proof" so I may be hesitant to share my views on that reason

 

That Ms..Jayalalithaa is out is not because she is clean but because of the shocking yet calculative thought of 'so called' collective intellects that she is the only better option , by saying this I am not endorsing her as a better candidate, as of now compared with other political parties and their leaders. She undoubtedly has the "charisma" that her mentor and leader MGR had among the mass. Her cine background played an important role as well.

Most of the voters consider that she is a far better corrupt(?!), far better leader, far better experienced in governance (?!) than all others who either are more corrupt and unworthy than her or least qualified, not necessarily educationally but definitely politically, to govern a state.

People also have accepted that corruption and politics are two sides of the same coin.
Thanks to the opponent party's mega corruption history, voters started sympathizing with the only influential woman politician of the state as of date. They also feel that like MGR, she is also the guardian of poor and destroyer of evil ! Cinematic, but this is the view of majority of voters. The prevailing vote bank politics results in this kind of political scenario.

With the passing away of Rajagopalachari and K.Kamaraj , Statesman caliber of politics has ceased to exist at least in Tamilnadu. All now present are hard core selfish, mean ,power hungry politicians. One or two or maybe a handful of clean politicians, are still there. But they have no kind of influence on people , honestly. Most of them go un hailed and unnoticed. That is the pity with current scenario all over the nation.

As far as AAP is concerned, people have been influenced on false grounds. No realistic approach to politics in general and governance in particular. All honest individuals need not be successful politicians. And I have my own doubts to the 'honest' title of Mr.Kejriwal. Seems to me a dictator ,childish..

@kaniths , @Grihani , carry on !!!


Regards,
Pavithra