Disclaimer: this is just an observation and by no means support of panchayat or any other political parties. The current system is not good for the people or country by any means. Let's think of 3 different points in time. A = Past ie panchayat rule B = Present ie Maoist pseudo democratic rule C = Future Let's consider the following variables X = Common Nepali living in the village a classic village commoner Y = Common Nepali living in cities such as pokhara, ktm ie a classic city commoner Now if you consider how X and Y have been affected in timeframes A and B. And also consider the possible scenario in the Future C. If you compare the living conditions of X and Y during timeframe A and B, there has not been much positive change. The conditions have worsened to be precise. During timeframe A, things remained constant with few atrocities that you heard of once in a while. But peace prevailed and the quality of life was consistent. If you determine a scale for peace and quality of life, on average the scale was somewhere in the 80%s and consistent. If you look at the wealth line it was probably on the 10%s. Fast forward to current times of the Maoists also known as the SPAM, they were able to quickly downgrade the peace and quality of life on the average of commoners X and Y from the high 80 percentile to low 10's with the wealth index consistent. So obviously the common person has lost 70% peace of mind and quality of life with their wealth level constant low within the past few years of SPAM rule. All this while the common citizen is being told that this is necessary to boost the peace and quality of life back to the 80% and the wealth index to a higher number. If you look at the trend, these current politicians are responsible for bringing the peace and quality of life index from 80 to 10 within 10 years. What are the chances of them bringing any positive index up? IMHO they have made such irreparable damage to the social, political system that it is pretty impossible to make any progress in the peace, quality of life and wealth index of the country. Lot of naively optimistic people want to believe that this is all for the better but there have not even been an iota of hope when it comes to the development of the country or it's democratic stance. Thousands of innocents have lost their lives while the politicians promise a better fairer democratic country only to disappoint with lies, atrocities and unfair prevalent practices encouraged by the rule of the gun. If we the educated people buy in to their rhetorics of impractical developments in the future, then the future of our country is doomed.