11th Report of Political Discourse / 2023, June 21st
Why Is Narendra Modi So Popular? Tune In to Find Out, by Mujib Mashal for the New York Times.
This is a very strange article, very stupid in a new way, perhaps an appetizer to whet our appetites for a new Progressive blitz, since Caesar’s election is just 17 months away. Mashal presents his report as news, but it’s really opinion. That’s fine, you just need to use your Critical Thinking skills. A picture is sketched of India as if it’s a state in America, same problems, same diagnosis, same solutions.
1. Nahrendra Modi 20 years ago looked the other way when his people trampled hundreds of other Indians, and this is the publicly stated reason why the USA does not trust him.
2. He was elected in a landslide election and has a supermajority in Parliment, so he can do whatever he wants. He continues to be very popular, but the writer asserts straightforwardly that he is fooling most Indians and is an ethno-fascist. He doesn’t even call him problematic. He says pretending to be grandpa on the radio is because he has dreams of being Mussolini.
3. Everything he says on his radio program is very sweet and endearing. Mashal has chosen these incredibly decent radio chats as the springboard to reveal Modi’s pandering populism, which is a very strange device. The radio is a tool of liars, that is what we are told, a method to avoid the young cell phone generation, pursuing the support of older voters, which is very unfair to kids, who are the future.
4. That’s it. What’s astounding is how brazen it is, and all the examples are oddly positive, with the broad negative examples being ideas floating in the air. Even so, if my neighbors read the article they would probably think, “I had always assumed the Indians were all doing yoga and practicing mindfulness, but they have become bitter clingers.” The NYT moderates all comments, but doesn’t censor for politics, only politeness. A typical comment is from CarolinaJoe, “It is much easier to excite people around cultural ideas than around economic vision, which would require some sacrifice and time.” CarolinaJoe is woefully misinformed. India has a far stronger economic vision and roadmap for growth than the USA, which spends 75% of it’s revenue paying its citizens not to work, 20% forcing other countries not to work, with 5% left over for actually running the country. The governments in the USA take 35% of 25 trillion dollars every year, and even though we are a small country, just 4% of the worlds people, earning 25% of all the money in the world, somehow our governments are always short on cash.
5. The only positive affiliation the writer makes is with the downtrodden Muslims and the ever present “multitudes of minorities”, clearly showing his bias. No doubt the writer is a Muslim himself, and an atheist, like all youth who value social media and cell phones.
6. Another elephant in the room here is that if all these words can be used against India, than what is China? If Narendra Modi has controlled the airwaves and the thoughts of Indians, than what has Žee Žing Ping done? It used to be you had to be smart, and I’m sure the State Department guys in the 50’s had some good way of putting it, but now if China or India says to the US, “We are merely considering some future border disputes, but you have invaded two countries, are shipping huge quantities of weaponry to Ukraine, drop your Hellfire missiles in dozens of countries. What we are thinking of doing is a modest and reasonable precaution.” The State Department guys are probably so stupid now, they just say nothing and make no expression, then the next day begin a multi pronged LGBT smear campaign against Hindus, Buddhists, and the wrong sorts of Muslims who take pride in their religion, whole swaths of human heritage smeared as “enemies of progress”.
7. Another unspoken subtext unique to India is that they have been bickering and lynching each other over these 3 religions for hundreds of years, and Ghandi was far more controversial than Modi. Nonetheless the country stays together, they are all well suited to each other. Every 1st generation Indian I’ve met has come around to complaining about their homeland and the dirty disgusting other types of people in India, assuming I’m like every other American, and this is how you bond with an American. Your average American can’t make heads or tails of the centuries of bickering in India, and agrees Modernity and Progress are the death of the gods, ethnic hatred, and poverty.
8. Also going unspoken is the A hole in the room, the Axis is back, and it’s India-Russia-China. The benefit of this alliance is that two conservative countries with 35% of the worlds people can partner with Russia, a drunken disaster of a nation that always doubles down on lies and brutality. If Russia can be so brazen right at Europe’s backdoor, and Russia is only 2% of the world’s people, then Taiwan and Kashmir could be taken quite easily, but in a far more intelligent manner than Russia, which always terrorizes it’s future comrades for years in a war of liberation, that’s their special method of war. They enjoy these wars of liberation so much they often kick these countries out of their Confederacy, only to invade them again 20 years later. What’s really sad is that the State Department and the NYT foresee this and all sorts of other things, but for some reason they think deploying LGBT and anti-totalitarian rhetoric will put a dent in the side of Vishnu or Buddah. Perhaps it can, anything is possible.
Very little information is given about Mashal’s background. He has been groomed by the NYT since he was a freshman in college. He is opposed to “cycles of violence” but nowhere states what sort of Afghanistan he supports. I would imagine he supported neither the US occupation nor self rule as a Muslim country, but rather the now extinct Parlimentarian puppet government that was staffed with useless internationalists loyal to no nation. The very best people, globalists, citizens of planet Earth.
Mashal’s Columbia University Dissertation
At Columbia University he studied how to tell stories, the need for repositories of national stories, repositories of calcified trauma and ethnic grievances. As a former creative writer myself, I can tell you from personal experience that an individuals life story is useless. One person is just like the next. The key is how you phrase the story, using a rigorous methodological framework, peer reviews, and best practices, like a defense attorney.