Posted by: grgDai April 27, 2012
Online portal to communicate with Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?        
Hope is what keeps a lot of people going, but sometimes hope ends up doing very bad things. For example we can take the Maoist coming into power. They played with people's hope to get in power and now they are not going to let go too easily. People actually voted for them with the hope that they will bring in change, even ignoring the fact that they came into power by killing over 15000 people most of whom were innocent people who were brutally murdered.

This hope can cause irrepairable damages sometimes because people can be unreasonable and impractical with their hopes. People believe anything can be better than congress so they bring in the maoist and now they find maoist is even worse, and now they will try to justify it by saying things like it will take time for democracy to flourish. They said the same thing 5 years ago. Well, they said the same thing 100's of years ago even in the US, and now things are taking a wrong turn in both Nepal and US.

A lot has to do with the circumstance too. When there were few mouths to feed, democracy sounds great because there are plenty of resources for everyone, but now with rampant growth in population and limited resources, everyone's trying to make a few bucks while they can. In country like the US, because of strong legal backings, it is more difficult to abuse public resources and practice corruption, but as we have heard in the news there are more such occurance. While in Nepal, with lack of backing by the law, everything is up in the air and only the strong survive which becomes the maoists with their YCL backforce. The law is a joke as Baburam tries to put in small legal fronts such as confiscating land to build roads and doing breathalizer tests, while other ministers and his political partners are busy demanding bribe of millions of dollars openly to foreign projects and being involved in other corrupt activities.

Hope is a beautiful thing but hope has to be backed up somehow by a possible roadmap as to how it is all possible or will be possible. However, in our context, there is zero possible road maps besides the increasing corruption, extortion, murders and an all round increase of everything that is bad to worse.

Due to lack of education, the majority of people in the streets are swayed by political display of power and they will do anything for Rs. 100 a day.

Because of this, the only hope that exists for nepal is for a military rule by a benevolent ruler. I don't see anyone else besides the King himself who can possibly carry this out. The royal institution has been going on for centuries and they took everything for granted, and this decade they got ousted. They have learnt a biggest lesson but they are only human beings everyone makes mistakes but keeping in mind what the options are, the new Royal coup would be the best options because they will come to power knowing they can't mess with the people, knowing they will not be above the law, but knowing they are the only ones who can make and effort to make things right. They already have lot of property and wealth so they are not going to be as bent on filling their coffers like the opportunistic leaders who have make their way in poverty and made their exit in affluence as we have seen time and again since the ousting of the king.

Good politics is all about choosing the least evil options.
Read Full Discussion Thread for this article