The middle class vote is a fickle vote. Lets face it. The middle class benefits from corruption. After one particularly lengthy and acrimonious debate with an old college friend of mine (who had voted NOTA after claiming to be disappointed with AK), I finally got him to admit that he doesnt think corruption is even worth fixing. I think the rest of this disillusioned middle class feels the same way. Educated people think it is cool to criticize politicians. That is unlikely to change any time soon. And they claim to be experts at economics and look down their noses at AAPs economic policies. Just because it benefits poor people, they say AAP is doing it only for the popular vote. To hell with this middle class that owes its very existence to the blood and sweat of the majority of Indians (who live on less than a dollar a day). We will fix India despite them. Lets focus our energy on the real work ahead, instead of trying to convert the so-called disillusioned middle class vote. Look around you - how many of your middle-class friends and family actually care about the well-being and safety of their domestic help and the poor people in their neighborhood? The only charity they give is out a misguided sense of punya-kamana in the eyes of God. They give money to their bais for Deepavali but wont give her a raise. How many of us educate our bais children for IIT and IIM, not just for a lifetime as another bai? And the chowkidars who keep our house safe? The bai who works in our house works three different jobs just so that she can save up enough money to send her daughter to private school. The chowkidars have traveled all the way from the northeast to live in misery and poverty in Bangalore and risk being the victims of racial violence just so they can earn a living and send the money back home. My father and my maternal grandparents were brought up in this kind of poverty. How dare we forget? How many middle class families give a damn about farmers committing suicide? Or about communal violence in streets far away from their precious gated communities? I am sick of token charity. We owe every paisa that we have not to Lakshmi but to the toil and poverty of hundreds of millions of Indians. We, as educated Indians, have the power to fix their misery. And what do we do? We give and take bribes and then turn around and give token charity. That is the trickle down effect in India. So, to hell with the middle class vote. I would not accept the vote of people who have sold their souls. Id rather build an India in which poor people dont have to sell their vote just to stay alive. That is 70% of our country! 980 million people!!!
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:35:52 +0000
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