While bad people are political - good people are not. Men are political and women are not! While we live in the pretext that politics is "bad" and "good" people should stay away from it, but the facts are something quite different. Politics is often perceived as a dirty game, so most of the educated mass capable of thinking stay away from politics. Sounds pretty good isn't it? In a democratic setup, this is not only very harmful for the country, but also a extremely dangerous trend.
A peek at most of the stable, educated, "good" people's public profiles, you will see they are "not interested" in politics. What does it mean? They really don't care who is in power, or what policies are made or the welfare of the country in the pretext of dirty political games. In Indian context, there are 90% of the educated people stay away from such things, the remaining 10% may be voting with some responsibility. The rest of the uneducated people vote either as a community, or to a party that once Gandhi belonged or for no reason at all. That is the state of democracy India reeling under now.
As responsible citizens, we have the responsibility to know who is ruling us, what policies they are making, the corruptions in public life etc. The apolitical people are either whiners or escapists or Hypocrites. At the drop of every hat, they would blame the government, the country, the people; not realizing that their aversion to politics is one of the important causes behind all the ills. We very often forget what Gandhi had said " Be the change you want to see in others". So, in other words, by not being a part of the politics, we choose the wrong government and hooligans rule us..
The other day I was talking with an aunty and she said, I vote for congress. Then I asked why? She said just because they have been voting for congress for the last 50 years. Now, see the logic, they have no interest to know who leads congress, what type of governess they are bringing, but just vote for it because they were always voting for congress!
I want every person to be political to the extent that they know who is ruling their country, whether it is good or bad for the country. Who is making decisions to buy the arms/ammunition, who decides what technical institutes should be opened, who decides on the preservation of environment, who decides the overall growth of the nation. I don't want to cry foul saying that so much heat this year or global warming because of deforestation or so much power cut this year, or there is a cyclone. I don't want to complain about the road conditions, quality of education, corruption, cleanliness, non-functional government organization, bad hospital administrations so on and so forth. Because I could have brought about the changes I wanted but simply because I am apolitical or in other words peace loving, I lost the opportunity for bringing about a desirable change that I am complaining about.
How many of us believe in the system? How many of us really take the pain to go through proper channel? All of us, who complain about the system, are the first ones to break the rule. We just want to pay bribe and get our jobs done, because we think we don't have enough time to go through the queue. And yet, we are the same people complaining about the bribery! Most of us complain about the bad road conditions and dirt on the roads, yet how many of us take care not to throw our trash on the roads? After all roads are our private properties, and it is a democracy, so let me exercise it. Many of us spit on the road, throw papers and other unused items like water bottles and other unwanted stuff on the road, without a blink.
India can and has a great potential to grow and I am not loosing hope yet, and that will happen only if we bring about the changes by becoming "Politically incorrect".
A peek at most of the stable, educated, "good" people's public profiles, you will see they are "not interested" in politics. What does it mean? They really don't care who is in power, or what policies are made or the welfare of the country in the pretext of dirty political games. In Indian context, there are 90% of the educated people stay away from such things, the remaining 10% may be voting with some responsibility. The rest of the uneducated people vote either as a community, or to a party that once Gandhi belonged or for no reason at all. That is the state of democracy India reeling under now.
As responsible citizens, we have the responsibility to know who is ruling us, what policies they are making, the corruptions in public life etc. The apolitical people are either whiners or escapists or Hypocrites. At the drop of every hat, they would blame the government, the country, the people; not realizing that their aversion to politics is one of the important causes behind all the ills. We very often forget what Gandhi had said " Be the change you want to see in others". So, in other words, by not being a part of the politics, we choose the wrong government and hooligans rule us..
The other day I was talking with an aunty and she said, I vote for congress. Then I asked why? She said just because they have been voting for congress for the last 50 years. Now, see the logic, they have no interest to know who leads congress, what type of governess they are bringing, but just vote for it because they were always voting for congress!
I want every person to be political to the extent that they know who is ruling their country, whether it is good or bad for the country. Who is making decisions to buy the arms/ammunition, who decides what technical institutes should be opened, who decides on the preservation of environment, who decides the overall growth of the nation. I don't want to cry foul saying that so much heat this year or global warming because of deforestation or so much power cut this year, or there is a cyclone. I don't want to complain about the road conditions, quality of education, corruption, cleanliness, non-functional government organization, bad hospital administrations so on and so forth. Because I could have brought about the changes I wanted but simply because I am apolitical or in other words peace loving, I lost the opportunity for bringing about a desirable change that I am complaining about.
How many of us believe in the system? How many of us really take the pain to go through proper channel? All of us, who complain about the system, are the first ones to break the rule. We just want to pay bribe and get our jobs done, because we think we don't have enough time to go through the queue. And yet, we are the same people complaining about the bribery! Most of us complain about the bad road conditions and dirt on the roads, yet how many of us take care not to throw our trash on the roads? After all roads are our private properties, and it is a democracy, so let me exercise it. Many of us spit on the road, throw papers and other unused items like water bottles and other unwanted stuff on the road, without a blink.
India can and has a great potential to grow and I am not loosing hope yet, and that will happen only if we bring about the changes by becoming "Politically incorrect".
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