{"id":3568,"date":"2019-05-24T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:08:47","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/24\/democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Democracy is a great equalizer. It requires no degree, caste or class for electing a representative or becoming one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All it requires is keeping voters believe in you. This can be achieved via fueling hope and banking on emotions. We voters forget past, we don&#8217;t judge. We are like a herd divided on caste, religion, and ideology. We live in our own echo chambers and confirmation bias. With 24\/7 news channel and newspapers fuels in the propaganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last resort when nothing works: nationalism comes for the rescue.  For the sake of country vote us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real agenda of health, illiteracy, women&#8217;s health, regional and religion independence gets no mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New India has no opposition, no one to check on the misdeed of government. Time will tell if a democratic leader is going to turn into an authoritarian regime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy is a great equalizer. It requires no degree, caste or class for electing a representative or becoming one. All it requires is keeping voters believe in you. This can be achieved via fueling hope and banking on emotions. We voters forget past, we don&#8217;t judge. We are like a herd divided on caste, religion, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/24\/democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}