Why Congress lost

Propagandhi711 wrote:one convenient attempt at putting congress's performance at the foot of one beta personality detected. wonder if the intelligentsia will admit that the results are also a resounding rejection of congress and lefties' relentless bleating of secularism like it were a religion in itself.

Propagandhi711 wrote:one convenient attempt at putting congress's performance at the foot of one beta personality detected.

** incisive. my thought exactly. anyone on the ground could see that people were fed up with nothing trickling down and what we had instead was the growth of a criminal class. so the country was full of the poor and the criminal class started taking revenge on people of the upper middle class by beating them up, raping them, making life in india generally unsafe on top of all that corruption...and really what did congress do about it? a few more years of this and you have a dysfunctional state.  

** the secular media didn't pay any attention to this, they pretended everything was okay and that only one story mattered: the 2002 Gujarat riots. I fail to understand why they did that. who could have never guessed that the bjp would trounce out the congress like that. anyhow, secular elite and minority readership encouraged this story-telling, and so SG missed out on the restlessness at ground level. the lesson for the high-borns is to refrain from believing the secular media cuz it is not covering the india story it is actually secular-elite opinion and nothing else! I think we can safely say that the secular-elites, the minorities and their intellectually lazy and dishonest media handed this victory to modi. I mean if Congoons made a tiny attempt to understand the situation and say a line or two about econ growth, they would not have lost so badly.

** well how can we put this in a way RaGa understands?
Rahul, I really like you but I think we haven't been spending as much time together and we're growing apart and I think we should see other people.

wonder if the intelligentsia will admit that the results are also a resounding rejection of congress and lefties' relentless bleating of secularism like it were a religion in itself.

** yes the atheists and agnostics have found a religion.

The Opposition has good marketing skills. There is 'chamak, naach, gaana (glitter, dancing, singing)'. They are selling combs to bald men. Now there are a new group of people who are trying to give them haircuts.
Rahul Gandhi

You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there’s Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That’s the power of India.
Rahul Gandhi

Poverty is just a state of mind. It does not mean scarcity of food, money or material things. If one possesses self-confidence then we can overcome poverty.
Rahul Gandhi

We go into this model where you have the one guy who will come and fix everything. He is going to come on a horse, that’s the model, that’s the Indian model. He is going to come on the horse, the Sun is in the background. There are a billion people waiting. He is coming and everything is going to be fine. No. It’s not going to work like that.
Rahul Gandhi

Every situation that Indian person finds himself in is extremely complex. We have to deal with the red lights. As young leaders here have to deal with senior leaders, suddenly someone disrupts your entire life. Everything happens, sort of, according to your karma; it’s all random.
Rahul Gandhi

Idéfix wrote:http://whycongresslost.in

Idéfix wrote:http://whycongresslost.in

Propagandhi711 wrote:one convenient attempt at putting congress's performance at the foot of one beta personality detected. wonder if the intelligentsia will admit that the results are also a resounding rejection of congress and lefties' relentless bleating of secularism like it were a religion in itself.

Kris wrote:

Idéfix wrote:http://whycongresslost.in

>>>Clearly this young man was in over his head, but the loss was due to Congress being disconnected with reality and its delusion that the Nehru-Gandhi lineage would tide it over. At the least his pearls of wisdom, such as they are, couldn't have hurt the party more than its lack of ideas on how to move forward.

Idéfix wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:one convenient attempt at putting congress's performance at the foot of one beta personality detected. wonder if the intelligentsia will admit that the results are also a resounding rejection of congress and lefties' relentless bleating of secularism like it were a religion in itself.

I think the Congress and its allies did a big disservice to the idea of secularism when they tried to make that the central issue of the election. Congress was devoid of both ideas and leadership, and it tried to use secularism as a mantra to make up for it, and it failed big time with the Indian people.

Idéfix wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:one convenient attempt at putting congress's performance at the foot of one beta personality detected. wonder if the intelligentsia will admit that the results are also a resounding rejection of congress and lefties' relentless bleating of secularism like it were a religion in itself.

I think the Congress and its allies did a big disservice to the idea of secularism when they tried to make that the central issue of the election. Congress was devoid of both ideas and leadership, and it tried to use secularism as a mantra to make up for it, and it failed big time with the Indian people.