#Dare any #AAP volunteers will read this! #Lol Abridged draft of a fellow independent thinker - Ambareesh Phadnavis .. There is a type of AAP supporters are the urban yuppies (YUPPie - Young upwardly mobile Professionals) who had never voted in their lives, have been drinking coolaid, enjoying life weekend parties etc. They never paid attention to civics, history, geography lectures in school, have no idea of how system works nor are they interested. As 2008 global crisis hit India 2.5 years later, this bubble in which these yuppies were living began to burst. Suddenly the glossy film over their eyes vanished and they were hit by 2G, CWG and whole lot of other scams. These people started looking for a quick-fix, a magical lamp whos genie would grant wishes and system will be cleansed. Thus the outlandish concept of Janlokpal etc was hyped (while lokpal is ‘essential’, these guys made it into some sort of magic bullet). When AAP was born, a section of yuppies gravitated towards AAP. Unlike other categories, YUPPies do not really know why they support AAP - When asked they say that’s cool or parrot what Kejriwal said the earlier day. When confronted with Kejriwals statement day before earlier-day, they curse and scoot. (Other AAP followers do the same too, but that is nothing but political tactics for them) The mental lethargy of the YUPPies makes it difficult for them to comprehend how is system structured and where exactly lies the problem and how to approach the problem to truly fix it, instead of making it worse. It is a funny assemblege of AAP leadership! (either Congress OR leftists). The leadership is very clear in their heads - Bhushan is clear about Kashmir, Chenoy is clear about maoists, Yogendra (advisor of rahul gandhi until 2012) is clear about Raul and congress. It is this YUPPies who provide most entertainment online. They simply wont admit that theyve been duped and will continue supporting AAP - its point of honor now. You see many of them have been thoroughly ridiculed by now by many of their class mates, friends and peers around them. It makes them look stupid and spineless if they suddenly abandon something which they vehemently defended. There is never one single way of solving a socio-politico-economic problem and one must be open to other means and ideas. AAP has cursed this flexibility throughout its discourse. And while the category-1&2 leaders and cadres have shown similar flexibility of political ideals when they jumped the bandwagon of AAP (and many are now jumping out), it is YUPPies who took this sermon seriously. It’s funny really. Moment of epiphany is always wonderful! ..
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:17:43 +0000
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