Opinion of the Bharatiya Janata Party

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Obvious Horrible Party, but BRTD consigning all of their voters to the trash heap with them is going a little too far.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I just basically put their voters in the same category as Golden Dawn voters.

I'm sure there is at least one Golden Dawn voter, too, who is not '[d]isgusting, f**king filth and utter trash'. I swear it's like nobody ever introduced you to the concept of the banality of evil before.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And the BJP and its allies threw a fit over the possibility of Sonia Gandhi being PM, and clearly not just because she was from the other party.

But is that specifically because she's Christian or more because she's foreign-born and -raised? Because that isn't a reason with which I'd agree, but it's--to an extent--understandable and not just flagrantly bigoted.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And the BJP and its allies threw a fit over the possibility of Sonia Gandhi being PM, and clearly not just because she was from the other party.

But is that specifically because she's Christian or more because she's foreign-born and -raised? Because that isn't a reason with which I'd agree, but it's--to an extent--understandable and not just flagrantly bigoted.

If a conservative party in a European country objected to a politician from a rival liberal party being PM because they were foreign-born and not of the local ethnicity, people would be hollering RACISM, RACISM, RACISM.

I mean I think it's a little more understandable for Indians to be leery about having Europeans as their leaders...

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Well, yeah, obviously, although I must admit I don't understand quite what's made people so upset with the Congress over the past five years (I understand it in general terms).