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Indian voters won't vote for coherent issues, in 2024, because they are shifted to that overton window wherein religious consciousness would matter. The current regime has a proactive PR machineries, which even integrated opposition parties can't imagine to possess.
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Logical fallacies, as posited by the so-called opposition parties, alone would not influence the behavioral pattern on EVMs. Let's keep it straight and honest.
It's the narratives that matter in the upcoming landscape. The opposition parties may do regionally well but...
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they don't possess a sound blueprint to counter the nation's 'new' narratives grounded in the issues like Pakistan-bashing, Islamophobia, Kashmir, Ram temple movt. & soldiers. This shit is real. Accept it.
Cautiously, through other issues, even a rhetoric to refute them...
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...would eventually backfire at the party that is endeavoring to counter the nation's Modi syndrome. That 'narcissist' has successfully triggered the Hindutva consciousness at the expense of core issues. Repetition of selected political terms has made majoritarians...
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..believe that whatever he says is the truth. No matter how much YOU individually dawdle to counter fake news, logical fallacies and bigotry, the 'backfire effect' gets stronger and benefits his party. I also see there is not a bigger study by any political scientists...
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..to prolude alternatives. It's the same game with a new name today, but played smartly than diligently. Any iota of gimmicks or stunts from the opposition parties would cause 'feel good' moments for the dissidents but PR machineries & social interactions debunk the 'new'..
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..realities that 'others' are trying to generate. Also, voters caste their vote, not cast their vote. Hindutva is baseless without casteism & now jingoism and islamophobia. If at all there has to be a counter-politics, it has to be alternative that appeals to Gen Y & Z..
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or else it's simply a waste of time, energy and money. Voters don't think. They feel. That is where the outreach has to happen. Call me idiot or whatever, but I see nothing new in this 'real' ludo game where the operating system of institutions has been already superseded.
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