Power behind the throne
The question, "Is gentle Doctor a disgrace", is embarrassingly simple. Of course he is, and of course in an ideal world he would have been booted out. However his dismissal is not the point.
Truth (and blindingly obvious at that) is he is a political nobody. Which means he isn't threat to influence of Gandhi dynasty , which is one of the reason he is occupying the top post. The other reason is that behind his garb of respectability, Sonia Gandhi is attempting to lift her family to the "commanding heights" of her mother-in-law era.
It is cynical, but not out of character of Gandhi family. But the most important question is how is Sonia Gandhi, and her stooge of PM getting away with mockery of India and her people ?
The answer is, complicity of liberal establishment. Liberal media and intellectual have been more than charitable to the disgraceful duo.
It is the Shekhar Guptas and Rajdeep Sardesais who have consistently evaded holding either Gandhi or PM to account for their incompetence and subversion of institutions under their watch.
It is them who have done everything possible to avoid reporting on utter moral bankruptcy of UPA government, also to deflect public attention from innumerable failures.
It is them who tried to disgenuouly suggeted that divesting post of PM of any authority was actually a good thing.
In other words, it is they who are responsible for this travesty of republic.
And the reason behid their action is not unscrutable either. Their priority is not national interest, their allegiance is not to this nation, they do not love India, they are at best indifferent and at worst contemptous for the motherland. They covet power and for that they want to retain their monopoly on the intellectual space of the country. From this monopoly they can control institutions, adjudge the value systems and control the dissemination of information.
What we have is army of Tooheys.*
And we are witnessing is battle for soul of India. Liberal establishment must be destroyed.
* Citing Ayn Rand. What has become of me.
3 comments:
Question time again -
1) Are a desire for power, and a love for the nation mutually exlcusive?
2) Is a desire for power a trait exclusive to the liberal establishment?
3) Most importantly, are you by any chance suggesting that the installation of a dummy president and other such 'subversion of institutions' is among the greatest mockery that the Indian republic has witnessed? Or that a mockery of the Indian republic is a trait limited (or largely found) in the UPA establishment?
Oh and also, we do not really have an army of Tooheys. And if an army of Tooheys is more likely to succeed than a group of Roarks, then it is for the benefit of the nation/humanity that the army of Tooheys succeeds. Personally, I have always considered Toohey to be the real hero of the book. Howard Roark is a boody blithering sentimental idiot who just needs to be spanked. Dominique is a psyhco.
1. No.
2. No.
3. Not really, Sonia Gandhi can not match Indira Gandhi and her son in subversion of republic. But I think it is due to abscence of opportunity.
4. Let's not discuss Ayn Rand. Please. Anything but Ayn Rand.
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