Good Cop Bad Cop
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1. cops
Yes, Left has mastered the art of good-cop bad-cop to the extent that they have an entire spectrum of increasingly worse cops moving the overton window.
Instead of understanding this līlā, the right thinks this is a “political spectrum”.
2. mamdani
The fact that CentristLibs™ aren’t even trying to push a coherent message telling people “vote for Adams”, in an election where there’s no chance that splitting the vote would risk electing the Republican, is hard evidence that they only exist to provide cover for the Left.
3. The Liberal-Left relationship
Apparently the Congress Rāj issued a postage stamp commemorating this guy (the “Father of the Two Nation Theory”) in 1973.
I think the best way to conceptualize the Congress-Pakistan relationship, even pre-2014, is as a geopolitical version of the Liberal-Left relationship.
On whatever differences they have, the latter (Left/Pakistan) is far more driven, tugging much harder than the former (Liberal/Congress).
Fundamentally this is because Liberal/Congress regards Left/Pakistan as being “on their side”*, and would rather tug hard on other ropes, i.e. against their Right-wing/Hindu rivals.
(this isn’t an exaggeration btw. Aman ki Asha, “We’re the same people after all, it’s just the British who divided us”, South-Asianism have long been core beliefs of Congress and its style of secularism.)
A lot of Indians think that e.g. the Indira Gandhi govt releasing ~1 lakh Pakistani POWs in exchange for literally nothing is “Prithviraj Chauhan syndrome”. No, it is because the Congress literally saw the conflict with Pakistan as a mere familial dispute (while the REAL war is with the “Sanghis”/Hindutva back home). Rolling over for Pakistan was seen as a moral ideal; the war a mere practical compulsion.
Notably, the bad cops do *not see the good cops as on their own “side”. They see from their vantage point, from which their own good cops appear to be on the enemy’s side. This is why you see Noam Chomsky complaining about “corporate media”, or why in the leftist narrative even Congress is described as “nationalist”.
