On Monday 06 Nov 2006 9:45 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Be it for large scale human destruction a.k.a. > Iraq invasion or seeming useless, trivial but expensive city name change > (Bangalore is now known as Bengalooru, the Karnataka chief minister is > an idiot); the general population is usually sober and sensible. The > politicians have an agenda and convince, no, try to convince the > populace that it is the right decision.
Do you think that a war is somehow comparable with a name change, or are you attempting to say that "all politicians are stupid" and others are not. It strikes me that the populations are stupid, indecisive and uncooperative with each other to allow such leaders to hold the initiative. Besides a significant percentage of the sober and sensible general population actively support the politician and the drunk and insensible half support him by default by offering verbal criticism and little else. shiv
