Thursday, January 23, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
How to curb revdi politics
By now, it should be obvious to everyone that Indian politics has entered spiral of competitive populism.
This not a good news. Here is my proposal to curb it
1. There should be a legal limit for deficit for state budgets (already covered by FRBM act)
2. There should be a nonpartisan agency (like CBO https://cbo.gov) which evaluates manifesto to reconcile with budget. Only approved ones can be announced in polls
Friday, January 17, 2025
Abolish Warm Body Democracy NOW!
Warm body democracy means universal franchise.
In theory democracy seems a good choice for governance.
Under democracy, people (or their representative) are supposed to deliberate for common good.
In reality though, things are quite different.
For a common man common good is at quite low priority, so he is indifferent to democratic process.
He is however motivated by sentiments, most of them quite base, such as resources, so when he actually engages with democracy, it is to extract resources to maximal extent
Therefore, in reality, democracy is transformed to a battle, often bloodless, sometime violent, over resource extraction.
Instead of common good, object of democracy is spoils of war.
And that's why democracy has failed.
