Thread by @RadhikaBarman5

There's this narrative-- "yeah I agree RG is a nice person, but politics nay! That's idealistic"
Now, idealism here means impractical. So when did niceness or perhaps the idea of love become unrealistic ?
What else can you even possibly place against the idea of hate?
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What makes us think that leaders can't be both strong & compassionate at the same time, is our flattered idea of politics. Let's see this from a fascist regime's perspective first, where almost everyone is someway than the other influenced by its propagated ideas.

We have got flattered with the idea of having a spotless masculine superhero with and I-know-everything attitude, to be a strong leader, hypocrite neoliberal capitalism to be an alternative, and the remaining, to be called as failed individuals with an existential crisis.

This comes from our practice of setting, predefined standards of success & failure. The BJP with its man, machine, money is seen as a success model. Now, not many have the gutts to show direct support to the bjp, thus, they adapt hyperbolic sentiments to further their ideas.

Love & hatred, get gaslighted in this process, for both just serve as pretexts to set the model. You see its after all just an "opinion". And that's shown as the battle, where the nation is in mess, and political parties are busy fighting amongst themselves.
That's neoliberalism

for you, which has a fancy name called "neutrality".
We eventually forget the real battle and that is between ideas- Love v/s Hate.
What should one pick if one is offered nectar & poison? You won't mix both and have it! Will you?
The metaphor arises because this is a battle of

Dharma- which clearly illustrates that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
No warrior in the battlefield, leaves his opponent with a passive attack, and exclaims to have shown the "difference" between them & us.
We haven't taken the burden to illustrate how

different we are from the others. It's a method; (that too an effective one) we were never in a quest of proving ourselves. So on what basis do you say, that "niceness" is being used as a strategy? It's a verb. Problem is we see it as an adjective. Its how humans should be.

It's normal. There's nothing like a "less hazardous" poison. That's exactly how humans are. Either they love hard or don't at all. Soft love is no love.
And is that the alternative solution that we have? Soft love for hatred? It doesn't works like that.

What kind of alternative politics are we even wanting to see against the one that's current? Whats that unique "change" that we are wanting, if we expect both the opposition and government to have the same strategy of narcissism (machoism too)?
Why are our thoughts limited to

thoughts alone?
We love the blame game; we love complaining, we love being political sheeplians, and then rant about having a sensational media. Thats the root cause. You know why? Because neoliberalism is just that advanced version of apoliticism- which we don't realise 🤷

Thus, specifically to @RahulGandhi , it's something more in Rahul that we have been made to miss. A side of him that has been deliberately kept away from us so that only one narrative of ‘how my leader should be’ is propagated.

Moreover, if there's something makes you completely blind. Slavery & fandom does. Oops, your neutrality doesn't saves you from this🤦
There's nothing even more left for a dysfunctional society to supposedly BALANCE, for that matter.
To conclude, there's only one more thing I have

to say, the darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Period.

P.S: Yes, I know it's a long thread, but it's important. You are requested to read full. 🙏