In Dubai, it seems Mikel taught them how to point to each other, showing where they

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Hmmm. It does sound a leetle beet like you prefer the idea of a remote, political/managerial class who do what they want and are all related to a popularly-rooted democratic PM with support among the demos.

This would be very much of a theme with your take on UK politics, to be fair.

You have a country where many are illiterate and the only thing that gives them happiness in their poverty is their tribal religious beliefs.

The different state govts now think it's fine to change the school books in a way that Goebbels would have approved of.

Where there was previously a free media, under Modi, all bar NDTV have simply become propaganda outlets.

Of course they shouldn't be allowed to start WW3.

Answer me this. The C18th and C19th centuries saw the British end up dominating the planet, while spreading their enlightened values globally.

Do you think it would have been better had we had full franchise democracy, or can you accept that the country wasn't ready for it and we had to move towards it gradually?