All politicians are corrupt

Recently I was the listener to a long rant by a "friend", let's call him Jumping Jack. The subject was the Indian elections and obviously he was highly critical of the Indian politicians. He described in gory detail what he'd like to do to all Indian politicians which was neither pleasant nor legal for most parts of it ("round them up and shoot them"). He described what he'd do if he was the PM, the intentions were honorable but the methods... well, let's say Hitler would be smiling in his grave ("castrate all those who spit paan on the roads"). Of course he couldn't name which constituency he was in let alone the candidates of his constituency (gave me the "Abey, have you been listening to me?" look) and said that he was voting for NDA because he was tired of all the Congress BS ("What exactly?" I said "Everything man, you know, everything" he replied).


We had a couple of beers at a cheap bar and then he sped off in his car, ignoring the red lights because "Yaar, it's okay if no one is there at the red light".


Often I think why exactly I want to leave India for at least two years. Well most people have definite answers but for me I have concluded it is a number of factors. The Indian political establishment, Indian politicians or the way things are run here is DEFINITELY not a factor. I used to think it is, but it is not. It is the attitude of people there towards politics. Their knowledge of politics is limited to four words "All politicians are bad". They rant on how they can improve their country but the next minute drop an empty potato chip packet on the road. Their facebook statuses change to vitriolic messages about the government when a terror attack happens but they never bother to exhort their friends to vote for someone like Meera Sanyal. They use the lane markers as if their car is a line follower robot. They just basically ... piss me off.