Delhi Blast: Weak Leaders and Weaker Voters

In most countries, a bomb blast would wake up the government and make people angry. Not ours! As per Congress Minister for Tourism, Subodh Kant Sahay, Delhiites have become habituated to the terror attacks. As preposterous that statement is, it is a non routine and an honest statement. What we have seen so far (and we have seen enough of these to see a clear pattern) is that after any bomb blast, the response of the members of the GoI is extremely predictable. Like Pavlovian dogs, the PM and HM will go on to describe the attacks as cowardly and ask the public for restraint. They will also offer payments / pittance to the victims. The local government affiliated with Congress would come out and play a blame game. The US will praise the restraint of the Indian government. Of course no arrests are ever made. No local connection is ever found. Even if some Indian outfit is found to be blamed, no arrests ever get made. Eventually, Digvijay Singh would come out and blame the Hindus for the attack. Chidambaran would start dropping terms like Saffron terror. English language media would come to the rescue of the government with a timely expose of some kind on BJP or better yet Bhai Narendra Modi. Eventually, all will be forgotten. Cricket or the latest Khan movie or some sleazy reality show will take over the space.

If platitudes and speeches could fill stomachs and make a population happy, India would be paradise. That is all our leaders are good for. What Subodh Kant Sahay has said is really the truth. Our leaders are worthless is protecting us. We as voters are enabling these worthless leaders so that should give you an idea of our worth to the nation. We must be the only true Catholic nation on the planet. You see, we keep turning the other cheek. Insult us and we turn the other cheek. Kill our people and we restrain ourselves and the forgive and forget. Even the countries who are largely Catholic do not have this kind of patience and forgiveness. I would like to remind my fellow Indians about another tenet in Christianity. Christians say that the Lord hates a coward. Repeatedly turning the other cheek, is not a virtue. It is cowardice. We make it a virtue because the alternative means action which we are too lazy to take. God forbid if it is too hot outside to go and cast your vote. The most of the middle class is either brainwashed by government / education system / media into believing that somehow, Secularism prohibits us from placing the blame where it belongs and the rest are too lazy to go out and vote.

Casting our vote is the only action that civilization and democracy allow. We need to rise up from our slumber and vote for the right people in the forthcoming elections. We need to become immune to seduction in the name of secularism, casteism, social classes, regionalism and see through the bullshit that our politicians feed us. Mayawati pretends to be the champion of the dalits and yet her own lifestyle would put the biggest elite and blueblood to shame. We need to vote for performers and not pretenders. We need to vote for the person and not the family. We need to vote on the basis of recent record and not the history. If we think that all parties are corrupt, then we need to pick the lesser of the evils. We need to look at states with good leadership and bring those local leaders to the national stage against the advice of national media and liberals.

We need to wake and take our country back. Otherwise, as Subodh Kant Sahay says, we better become even more used to these attacks. Maybe even start treating deaths of loved ones as cost of living in India.