Why vote??????

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At the Art Of Living Course called Utsav in Pune, Maharashtra, India
after a very spirited discussion on voting and such
like, one of the guys got up and asked a very fundamental question… Why
vote?!

If you check out the polls, you will see that in most constituencies, a max
of 60% people go and vote (shocking!). Now this 60% of the votes is
typically shared between 4-6 candidates who may be contesting the election
for that place. Even assuming that only 3 are the popular ones, the vote
distribution will be approximately 10-15% each (of the 60) among the popular
ones and the rest among the others. So we will usually have a victory with
just 15-20% of the votes of a given constituency! So a person will come into
power with a “majority” vote of just 15-20%, usually much less, maybe even
10-12%!!! This in itself is pretty flawed according to me, you will have a
very hard time convincing me that 49% is a majority, let alone 12-20%.

Our politicians seem to be pretty good at maths, and they have done this calculation, and so know that to win an election, they need to worry ONLY about getting 20% of the votes. So they divided the country into OBC, and SC/ST and minority castes and so on, so that they could see a clear 20% of the population they would need to take care of (appease) so that they would be able to secure their vote and stay/get into power.

When you see it this way, almost every single government policy will make perfect sense