First time cheaters in relationships are usually given a warning --"Dont do Politics".
Cheating got more synonymous with politics mainly because of two things viz. corruption and floor-crossing. Floor-crossing assumes bigger proportions sometimes during oppurtunistic pre-poll and post-poll alliances among political parties. The Anti-defection law tries to some extent in curtailing floor-crossing among legislators. But there exist no law to control floor-crossing among political leaders or to check opportunistic pre-poll and post-poll alliances.
If it would have been any other political leader joining any other political party, he/she would have received brickbats for floor-crossing on the eve of elections. I have seen Political Parties who receive floor-crossers coming out in defense of them. But this is the first time I see even those party-sympathizers in FB coming out in defense of a floor-crosser. The defense these common voters (who are supposed to think neutrally) put across will make even the party spokespersons to blush.
There is a sudden surge in FB posts praising the floor-crosser's performance in government jobs, images comparing the floor-crosser's superior qualifications with her ally-turned-rival, justifications claiming that the floor-crosser is just entering politics and not switching sides, more and more..... There seems no need to search for any "Goebbels" or to create any separate "Ministry of Propaganda".
I sincerely wish only the politicians 'did politics'.
Cheating got more synonymous with politics mainly because of two things viz. corruption and floor-crossing. Floor-crossing assumes bigger proportions sometimes during oppurtunistic pre-poll and post-poll alliances among political parties. The Anti-defection law tries to some extent in curtailing floor-crossing among legislators. But there exist no law to control floor-crossing among political leaders or to check opportunistic pre-poll and post-poll alliances.
If it would have been any other political leader joining any other political party, he/she would have received brickbats for floor-crossing on the eve of elections. I have seen Political Parties who receive floor-crossers coming out in defense of them. But this is the first time I see even those party-sympathizers in FB coming out in defense of a floor-crosser. The defense these common voters (who are supposed to think neutrally) put across will make even the party spokespersons to blush.
There is a sudden surge in FB posts praising the floor-crosser's performance in government jobs, images comparing the floor-crosser's superior qualifications with her ally-turned-rival, justifications claiming that the floor-crosser is just entering politics and not switching sides, more and more..... There seems no need to search for any "Goebbels" or to create any separate "Ministry of Propaganda".
I sincerely wish only the politicians 'did politics'.
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