Over the past few weeks, my rants, raves, complaints, insults, and questions on the increasingly disgusting performance of this government have been brought into question or countered with the one question, "Do you vote?" This is my response.
1. Vote or not, are my questions on the poor performance of this government any less valid?
2. We all complain about political leaders across with world, we don't really go electing them. Still, questioning stupidity does not require you to exercise your franchise first.
3. You will say, "we cant vote there.. here we can." Yes. Then stop with the "Don't complain about the problem if you are not/cannot be part of the solution."
4. I complain about the poor performance of this government, not how some other would have been better. I am not questioning who put them there or why. I only care for good governance. And if that is not provided, I will question.
5. And finally, all those lakhs of crores that this government is scamming, comes partly from income taxes paid by people like me. I earn it honestly and correctly and cant really evade any. So when these curses on India just swindle it away, I am bloody well entitled to ask what the hell is happening, curse them, rant and rave about it, question integrity and character.
Here I would like to point out that I am not proud of the fact that I have not voted yet. I have what I believe are valid reasons for them, but none of them justify them.
And all of you who ask me this question each time, berate me for not voting all you want, but do you have the answer to these questions? YOU voted... so you (at least by your reckoning) have the right to ask them. Why haven't you? Did your duty stop when you voted?
