Saai Sasidhar Patri
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Sinking Public Discourse in the Indian Election 2024
Problem lies in simplifying complex issues into binary oppositions, marginalizing moderate voices, and employing charged language to stifle nuanced discussion.
Indignation, resentment, and reactionary politics
Democracies are like sand-castles, and they crumble down when they face a reactionary tide, emotions such as indignation and resentment take the reactionaries away from the present to a time-frame where the framework of morality itself changes, thereby providing them the scope to justify any radical action. It is important to engage with reactionary ideas for their loathe for the present, if went un-noticed and unengaged, might turn into a political storm.
Friends, enemies, and populist politicians
The 20th-century politics majorly revolved around one question: How do we organize modern states? The same question in the 21st century poses a dilemma with regards to the democracies. Towards the end of the last century, liberal democracy triumphed over Fascism and Communism. The rise of populist leaders today marks a dangerous advent towards which…
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