Re:India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
by twoodfin on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:21AM
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But at least democracy is working in the East, if not in the West (e.g. US).
This is a little snarky and off-hand for HN. There are threads seemingly daily to discuss how and why the fraction of the electorate represented by HN commenters is not getting its preferred policy outcomes. There's no need to pull threads on other topics into that morass.
Re:India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
by tomp on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:30AM
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I mentioned the US because it has only 2 political parties, which have quite similar political programs and even more similar (in the course of my lifetime) governing styles. It's not much different in Slovenia; same politicians for the past 25 years, with little change possible.
Re:India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
by kshatrea on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:06AM
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An analysis of news reports suggests that you're mostly right, but there is a huge factor of the personal charisma of this man. Like Obama, he has played on the "hope & change" motto. Can he deliver, we will have to see.
You may downvote if you like, but I still do not see why this should be on the front page of HN!
I should learn not to upvote comments before I read them to the end. Oh well...
Anyhow, this election result isn't fascinating to me because he is or isn't right-wing/nationalistic/pro-business/whatever, it's interesting because it represents a very strong change of direction in the government. It looks like people were very dissatisfied with the ruling party/coalition, which is similar to what has been happening in some EU countries after the crisis (Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, ... - in some of these countries, like apparently in India, it was the Nationalist parties that gained most). To pull this off in a country with a billion people is even more fascinating. But at least democracy is working in the East, if not in the West (e.g. US).